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🚨 BREAKING: Jay Swanson, a former state trooper who investigated child care fraud in Minnesota, provides damning testimony to the House fraud committee Scammers would "say they first heard about it while in the refugee camp in Kenya ... they had heard you could run the scam in a number of different states, but it was easiest and you could make the most money doing it in Minnesota." Swanson then detailed the retaliation he says he faced from Department of Human Services leaders and said he was told to delete some of his answers to an inquiry from the legislative auditor. "I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs ... I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal." "I told them that the fraud was so huge that sooner or later it would come to light."

Dr. Oz has officially called for a nationwide audit of the entire Medicaid program. We need this badly.

We gave them an early warning. Jodi Harpstead knew. Shireen Gandhi likely knew. No action EXCEPT retaliation. From: Concerned BHD Employees Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 (3:33) PM To: Randall, Judy (OLA) Subject: Corruption of Contracting Processes Dear Judy, We want to bring to your attention some abnormalities in BHD contracting process. As public employees, we are reporting possible misuse of public money and non-compliance with state laws in the contract management processes in BHD/DHS. As one example of this corruption of process, contract ID 219494 with Zion Baptist Church, this contract was instated by Paul Fleissner, a work out of class director whose salary was paid using DHS funds at a considerably higher rate than what our salary ranges are. Paul was brought on to by Commissioner Harpstead from Olmstead County because he was friends with Deputy Commissioner Chuck Johnson. Paul's performance at DHS was cited to being seriously deficient, in fact, could otherwise be described as being disastrous. This specific contract was put into place to address "trauma" experienced by black communities in North Minneapolis. However, no RFP was ever issued and the contract given to Zion Baptist Church with no cited work plan, justification for sole source or any other performance metric to justify the spending. $X million dollars of public dollars was given to this vendor with no oversight of any kind. Now, Eric Grumdahl wants to add another $X million dollars to provide to this vendor with similar lack of documentation, justification or oversight. In fact, DHS recently discovered no justification for sole source form was ever documented or approved by contracting and legal compliance. Now, DHS is trying to backdate the justification for sole source which is technically illegal. The grant manager and their supervisor Amanda X were never held accountable for this misconduct, in fact, Amanda was recently promoted for a position she is not qualified for. We want you to investigate who benefitted from this contract 219494 as violence prevention activities in North Minneapolis, is something that many other qualified vendors would have been interested in if DHS would have acted legally and issued an RFP. We are worried that the majority of the funds went to the executives of this organization rather than serving the community and people. This vendor is required to coordinate a consortium of multiple small organizations to provide violence prevention services. However, none of those organizations have been verified by DHS. In fact, some of those do not have a valid physical or web address. Please let us know if you require any additional information. We will be sending you more information on specific contracts in the coming weeks that detail issues with financial reconciliation, funding abnormalities and compliance issues. Thank You, Concerned Employees of BHD