Former Legislative Auditor James Nobles criticizes DFL officials for lack of oversight

Retired Legislative Auditor James Nobles, one of the most honorable people to serve in government, wrote an op-ed in this week's Star Tribune. In the op-ed, Nobles wrote "The late House Speaker Melissa Hortman privately told Minnesota’s longtime legislative auditor that some Democrats believed his office was being too hard on certain state programs, especially those run by Somali community organizations."

According to this Alpha News article, "In Nobles’ op-ed, he calls out what he described as a stunning lack of financial safeguards that has let millions in taxpayer dollars slip away, cheating both taxpayers and the vulnerable families those programs were designed to serve." Anyone that knows Nobles' personality knows that this is as close to a vesuvial moment as you'll see from him. You won't see Mr. Nobles get much more irritated than this.

Nobles' op-ed continues, saying "the theft of millions of tax dollars from Minnesota programs resulted not just from the actions of thieves but also from the failure of state executive officials to implement basic financial safeguards recommended in numerous audit reports for several years."

This is according to the Legislative Auditor's report:

State investigators at the Department of Human Services suspect CCAP fraud in Minnesota amounts to $100 million or more annually. Government investigations have uncovered evidence that individuals in Minnesota have sent CCAP fraud money to foreign countries where terrorist organizations have obtained and used the money to fund their operations.
This news report is explosive:

It's important to remember that this news report first appeared on Fox9 News 7 years ago. That's virtually the entirety of Tim Walz's administration. How could he not know about this fraud, especially this amount of fraud? Remember that the nonpartisan OLA determined that Minnesota tapayers were losing a suspected "$100,000,000 or more annually." Over 7 year, that's almost $750,000,000 that Minnesota taxpayers lost.

About a month ago, authorities thought that Minnesota had lost $1,000,000,000 in fraud. Based on the OLA report plus the $250,000,000 lost in the Feeding Our Futures scandal, I'd argue that $1,000,000,000 is too conservative. page forward

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