Minnesota Child Care Fraud Exposed

0:00It's April 30th. Welcome to U.S. News Today, powered by AI and covering the nation. A former investigator from Minnesota's Department of Human Services dropped a bombshell this week, telling lawmakers that top officials tried to bury. Evidence of fraud in the state's child care assistance program. J. Swanson, who handled criminal probes into child care providers, said his bosses pushed him to change or hide findings on fake billing schemes. Right after a legislative tip-off, Swanson testified that he called out the orders as illegal and even faced demands to delete reports. He also claimed his team got harassed and bullied by agency leaders while support for their fraud-hunting unit dried up and got shut down over time. Republicans in the state house are firing back hard, blaming Governor Tim Walls' administration for gutting oversight and making it easier for scams. To run wild, they point to years of weakened checks that let fraud slip through, wrapping up the political heed. Meanwhile, federal agents from the FBI and Homeland Security

1:01just hit over 20 spots of Minneapolis with search warrants targeting child care. Centers and businesses accused of ripping off public funds from child care, Medicaid, and more. Dozens of charges and convictions have already come from this crackdown, with billions possibly lost since 2018? State and federal teams are teaming up to keep digging, and while Walls insists they're cooperating fully with new audits in anti-fraud moves, the pro-brows-on, shining a light on how deep these schemes win.