{"id":931,"date":"2026-06-09T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:15:13","slug":"vance-refers-gov-tim-walz-and-minnesota-attorney-general-to-doj-for-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Vance refers Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota attorney general to DOJ for fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President JD Vance announced Monday that he is referring Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison \u2014 both Democrats \u2014 to the Justice Department for a criminal fraud investigation involving social services programs.<\/p>

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\u201cMinnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice,\u201d Vance wrote on X, adding that his referral was prompted by a letter and a report from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee.<\/p>

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The committee\u2019s report, published Monday, alleged that Minnesota state officials, including Walz and Ellison, were \u201caware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years\u201d and did not take steps to stop it.<\/p>

Walz\u2019s and Ellison\u2019s offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday night on the criminal referral, but their spokespeople were dismissive of the GOP report in statements to other news outlets.<\/p>

The committee also wrote a , in his capacity as head of the White House\u2019s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, to review Minnesota\u2019s social services programs.<\/p>

Vance was named head of the task force in February after President Donald Trump announced a \u201cwar on fraud\u201d in his State of the Union address. Shortly after that announcement, Vance and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said they were pausing federal Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota.<\/p>

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Walz said at the time that the move had \u201cnothing to do with fraud,\u201d calling it a \u201ccampaign of retribution.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cTrump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota,\u201d Walz said Feb. 25 on X.<\/p>

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Minnesota came under federal scrutiny earlier in Trump\u2019s second term over allegations of fraud involving daycare centers. The state said in January that childcare facilities at the center of those allegations were not operating improperly.<\/p>

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