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A Tuesday Senate proceeding is acceptable to exposure billions successful fraud successful Minnesota arsenic good arsenic overseas backing for anti-ICE agitators crossed the country, Sen. Josh Hawley's bureau told Fox News Digital.
The proceeding earlier the Homeland Security Subcommittee connected Disaster Management, which Hawley chairs, volition diagnostic grounds from a Minnesota authorities legislator and representatives of third-party watchdog groups. Systemic fraud backed by transnational groups has stolen billions from kid nutrition, FEMA assistance, housing, Medicaid, and substance maltreatment services, the grounds is expected to say.
"American taxpayers are getting robbed blind—billions stolen successful Minnesota, and hundreds of billions siphoned retired of the state by transnational criminals each year—all portion overseas actors coordinate chaos connected our streets," Hawley told Fox News successful a statement.
"Enough is enough. It’s clip to basal retired the acheronian wealth and unopen down the overseas influence," helium added.
Minnesota State Sen. Mark Koran's grounds volition item the relation Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison played successful allowing fraud to fester and dispersed crossed the authorities successful what helium calls the "largest enlargement and fastest acceleration of fraud this state has ever seen."
Witnesses are expected to accidental that elder officials were not lone alert of the fraud but person besides taken steps to fell it from nationalist scrutiny by backdating audit records and cracking down connected whistleblowers.
A Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) whistleblower told Fox News that she was the unfortunate of a "smear campaign" aft raising reddish flags astir fraud successful the authorities since 2019.
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Federal prosecutors estimation that up to $9 cardinal was stolen done a web of fraudulent fronts posing arsenic daycare centers, nutrient programs and wellness clinics. The bulk of those charged, truthful far, successful the ongoing probe are portion of Minnesota's Somali population.
In summation to Koran, lawmakers volition perceive grounds from Seamus Bruner, the Vice President of the Government Accountability Institute; Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, the acting Vice President of Policy & Government Affairs for the Project connected Government Oversight, and Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Government.
Talcove's grounds volition absorption connected transnational groups that helium says are exploiting national assistance programs and utilizing stolen funds enactment "organized crime, cause trafficking, quality exploitation, and, successful immoderate cases, terrorist-affiliated oregon hostile overseas actors."
Bruner's grounds volition besides absorption connected overseas influence, linking the backing streams to overseas actors, including individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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