What began as a massive federal investigation into fraudulent claims for meals served to children has expanded to review payments made through another program designed to help kids, sources tell KARE 11.
The FBI is investigating a series of Minnesota-based companies that billed taxpayers for services they claimed to provide for children with autism, sources familiar with the investigation say.
Records show that one of the 21 defendants who has already pleaded guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future meals scandal also founded a company that purported to provide autism services – billing Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Walz and the Minneapolis mayor have blamed each other for delays in getting the National Guard involved in May 2020, while state Republicans pointed the finger at both.
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“Gov. Walz decided to deploy the National Guard at pretty much the same time Donald Trump was tweeting from his bunker, inflaming the situation and telling anyone who would listen to go after the protesters,” said Democratic state Rep. Emma Greenman, who was a candidate for office during the protests, which occurred in the district she would later in 2020 be elected to represent.
Russia was behind salacious false claims against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz that circulated widely on social media last week, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
“The intelligence community assesses that Russian influence actors created and amplified content alleging inappropriate activity committed by the Democratic vice presidential candidate during his earlier career,” an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday.
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