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A group of Minnesota state government employees said they wrote to the former vice president. Kamala Harris and Democratic National Committee (DNC) several times “warning them” about Gov. Tim Walz and what they called his “incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation.”
“We have tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Could it be that Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to scams like her running mate?,” posted on X, a Minnesota Department of Human Services employee account that says it represents more than 480 current Minnesota Department of Human Services employees.
“Over the years, our ideas have not changed. We need to stop gerrymandering in Minnesota and restore good governance,” it added.
Neither the DNC nor Harris' team immediately responded to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks to the Star Tribune at his office at the State Capitol in St. Paul on Dec. 12, 2024. (Alex Cormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Former Vice President Selects Walz for Two Terms Governor of Minnesota and a former US congressman as her running mate in August 2024.
Message from the group on X in September 2024 responded directly to Harris' account, explaining that Walz “has done incredible harm to our state and agencies, [and] took retaliatory action against whistleblowers about fraud.”
Minnesota is currently at the center of a widening fraud scandal as federal prosecutors continue to unravel scandals, including one of the nation's largest fraud cases of the COVID era.
MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT WORKERS BLAME WOLZ OF 'MASSIVE FRAUD' Amid Allegations Against SOMALI COMMUNITY
Last week, the Justice Department announced new charges against the 78th defendant in the case. “Food Our Future” fraud schemewhich prosecutors say involves more than $300 million in stolen funds from a federally funded child nutrition program and has already resulted in more than 50 convictions. Many of the defendants are from Minnesota's Somali community.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announces a major COVID-related fraud case in Minneapolis on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, detailing charges against the director of Feeding Our Future and 46 others in what prosecutors call a massive scheme to steal more than $250 million intended to feed children during the pandemic. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
The New York Times reported that what many Minnesotans initially thought isolated case Fraud in the pandemic era has become a much broader problem for state and federal officials.
The Times reported that over the past five years, several scams have spread across parts of Minnesota's Somali community, according to law enforcement officials. A number of individuals allegedly created companies that billed government agencies for millions of dollars in social services that were never provided.
Ladan Ali and her lawyer Eric Newmark leave the Diane E. Murphy U.S. Courthouse after she pleaded guilty Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Minneapolis. Ali was charged with offering $120,000 in bribes to jurors in the Feeding Our Future case. (Alex Cormann/Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)
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State Representative Marion Rarick, a Minnesota Republican, told Fox News Digital that she has been investigating fraud in her state since she was asked to serve on the state's Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee in January. She said she reached out to whistleblowers behind the Minnesota Department of Human Services employee account earlier this year to ask if they would talk to the newly formed fraud prevention committee.
“They agreed,” Rarick said, adding that he has been in contact with them since then, including personal meetings.
State Representative Christine Robbins, a Minnesota Republican, also praised the group, saying on X that the whistleblowers are “heroes.”
“We've been meeting with them for months and they're trying to clean up state government after @Tim_Walz. [‘s] a complete failure to hold their agencies accountable,” she said.
