Minnesota Fraud Is Just the Tip of a Growing Iceberg

The great American author Mark Twain is purported to have said that it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Such has been the case with the latest developments in the bevy of fraud scandals that have enveloped my home state of Minnesota – so many that it's hard to keep track – and now others.

Once a beacon of what a progressive utopian state could look like, full of nice people, beautiful lakes and leftist politicians like Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota's scandals have showcased just how vulnerable large public systems can be to mismanagement, weak oversight and exploitation, especially since Democratic leadership failed to take action.

A report released by the Office of the Legislative Auditor on March 17, about the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention Program, revealed that Minnesota's Department of Human Services failed to fully investigate allegations that Medicaid programs were receiving kickbacks because agency officials didn't think they had the authority. This turned out to be untrue.