Rob Cecile
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You’ve probably heard the news by now: Minnesota fraudsters stole over $1 billion from Medicaid. And you deserve an explanation.
Our staff at CMS told me they’ve never seen anything like this in Medicaid — and everyone from Gov. Tim Walz on down needs to be investigated, because they’ve been asleep at the wheel. Based on what we know now, this is a clear dereliction of duty.
First, the facts:
In recent years, Minnesota Medicaid launched several new programs, including Housing Stabilization Services, which helped disabled homeless individuals, and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, which reimbursed therapy costs for families with autistic children.
Some bad actors in Minnesota’s Somali community decided to game the system. And when they got away with it, they decided to go bigger.
The housing program was supposed to cost $2.6 million dollars annually. Last year, it paid out over $100 million. The autism program ballooned from $3 million in 2018 to nearly $400 million in 2023.
These scammers used stolen taxpayer money to buy flashy cars, purchase overseas real estate, and offer kickbacks to parents who enrolled their kids at fake autism treatment centers. Some of it may have even made its way to the Somalian terrorist group Al-Shebab.
So why didn’t Walz stop them?
That’s simple: because he went all-in on identity politics.
Somalis are a huge voting bloc, and the state’s leaders were afraid that “forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash.” That’s not me saying that. It’s a Somali-American fraud investigator who talked to The New York Times.
Somali scammers get rich off the programs Gov. Walz was supposed to be managing. Minnesota politicians get elected with Somali votes and keep the money flowing. This isn’t just fraud: it’s political patronage at public expense.
When Minnesota told CMS about the problem last year, they assured us they’d handle it. By summer, it was obvious they couldn’t — or wouldn’t. So, we stepped in and shut down the worst program: housing. We also froze provider enrollment in a few of the most abused programs.
So where do we go from here?
To restore the integrity of the Medicaid program, Minnesota must:
1. Provide CMS with weekly updates on how the state is stopping fraud.
2. Freeze enrollment of all high-risk providers for 6 months.
3. Confirm all providers in place are legitimate or remove them.
4. Send CMS a corrective action plan of how these will prevent this from happening again.
If we’re unsatisfied with the state’s plans or cooperation, we’ll stop paying the federal share of these programs.
The message to Walz is clear: either fix this in 60 days or start looking under your couch for spare change, because we’re done footing the bill for your incompetence.
With CMS on the case, these scammers and their bureaucratic enablers have nowhere left to hide. The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth.
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@SiddallJoe Just like the old days in the long jump pit! Father Cullen is looking down at you with pride Junior!!! Hope all is well Sid!
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@j13rosa @BonniesMLAX @MAACSports Quick recovery Jake. Training session with yourself and dad at @will_cecile6 garage when you get home?
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My boy is so happy that his @BonniesMLAX are going to the @MAACSports lax championship!
He is now in for surgery and will be watching his brothers tomorrow!
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@GeorgiaSwarmLAX @CLLlacrosse @NLL So happy for and proud of you Willy! Thank you @GeorgiaSwarmLAX. And thank you to all the people that helped make this dream possible. Forever grateful.
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With the 32nd overall pick in the 2021 #NLLDraft, the Swarm select Will Cecile! 👏
#LetsDance #Swarming
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...#Tigers announced after the game that Windsor native Jacob Robson will join the team to replace Goodrum (IL, groin). Tigs 8th round pick in 2016 out of Mississippi State has worked long and hard to get here - he's a .294/.382/.424 hitter over parts of 5 MinL seasons...7/
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@SiddallJoe After all those years behind the dish you told me Joe that you would never “squat” again? I think you could still do a couple rounds of blocking drills🦵💉. Hope all is well!
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@j13rosa a little old school baseball to fill the void of missing the other summer sport.
Baseball Quotes@BaseballQuotes1
On this date in 1974, Lenny Randle was thrown behind, so he dropped a bunt down just to LEVEL the pitcher
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@christeepalace how about something from one of your minions? make.headliner.app/download/8831f…. Enjoy!
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Incredible effort by the freshman Jake Rosa for the first of his career 🙌
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HAT TRICK for the freshman!
Cuts the deficit to 6-3
GIF
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@TheDupes @DetroitRedWings @JayDupes @TheBond73 Scott Foster has nothing on you Dupes! They’ll need to get you some Coney Dogs and Landsharks between periods though!
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Exactly.
And that why there were illegal North Korean rocket launches under @BarackObama’s presidency every 34 days.
You utter imbecile.
The Hill@thehill
James Clapper: "In all the deliberations that I participated in on North Korea during the Obama administration, I can recall no instance whatever where President Obama ever indicated any interest whatsoever in meeting with Chairman Kim." hill.cm/jLefXJA
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@Burrowsdrums Very cool. @SiddallJoe, u mind forwarding any tips? Legend has it Jeff was a player back in the day!!
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Jeff Burrows to throw first pitch at Detroit Tigers Canadian fan night windsorstar.com/news/local-new…
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