Todd Sallee

🚨Indiana spent $15 BILLION on social services agencies since 2022, $4 billion went to child services responsible for ~12,000 foster kids How does a state government spend $1 billion/yr on ~12,000 foster kids? And why does the federal government pay for 90% of it? Ask Mike Pence and the Indiana GOP. I began investigating IN at the behest of a generous contributor to somaliscan.com. Including federal subsidy, IN spends about $110,000 per foster child, but each family/caretaker only gets ~$9k-19k/yr. The other $80,000/yr goes to consulting firms and a bloated system created by GOP lobbyists, paid by tax dollars. Deloitte, a consulting firm that has received nearly $200m from the gov't, has profited from the waste in nearly every way. The firm's IN lobbyist is a former three term state GOP chairman, and another lobbyist at the same firm was literally the sitting GOP chair until Dec. 2024, Randy Head. In 2015, gov Mike Pence hired Deloitte to do an "independent" analysis of DCS caseloads, and Deloitte recommended improved IT systems, which it got hired to build. As well as maintain, and $70 million later, still maintain. Whistleblower and former DCS director Mary Beth Bonaventura warned that the system was failing children and after 36 years of child welfare was forced out of the system in 2017, right before the spending took off. The state of IN has a terrible bloating issue perpetuated by GOP lobbyists and complicit politicians. This is a deeply embedded and much more sophisticated kind of fraud when compared to the daycares in MN. Pence brought in executives to run childcare services, his healthcare advisor who went on to run medicare and medicaid at a federal level received $6.6 million from Indiana while she was advising the state, half of the lobbyists are connected to or are former members of the GOP, and nobody is motivated to help these foster children. Citizens in IN need to be aware that their tax dollars are being LIT ON FIRE! Deloitte is a can of worms on its own, taking in $16 billion per year from the US from federal funding + 25 of the states. Deloitte is a consulting firm that hires ex politicians to lobby for more consulting. A revolving door of waste and most likely fraud. Half of their payments from the TN state gov't are "change orders" for fixes. They are rewarded for doing a bad job. I have a full report on Deloitte coming out this week, its about as bad as you'd expect. read through the in progress IN report here: somaliscan.com/investigations…