Floor plan and designated areas: Indoor and outdoor space to be used for child care must be designated on the facility floor plan.
Outdoor activity area: Outdoor space must be at least 1,500 square feet total and at least 75 square feet per child; be within 2000 feet of the center; be enclosed if adjacent to traffic and other hazards; be free of litter and other hazards; and have the required outdoor large muscle equipment.
Indoor space: The licensed capacity is limited by the amount of indoor space. A minimum of 35 square feet is required for each child.
I don't recall seeing a single playground at any of these fraudulent day cares.
The children play in the street, of course. Just like a daycare in Mogadishu.
Not if I’m the auditor.
One maritime auditee had a massive debris pile with a wrecked 25 footer atop the pile. Frankly, it look like shit. But the issue was it blocked a buoy.
Oddly bouy blocking wasn’t an offense as far as we could tell, but “Failing to maintain the waters of the State of Texas in an aesthetically pleasing manner.” was a crime with a 12 month misdemeanor term.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
_____________________________________________ Proverbs 3:31 "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."
January 09, 2026, 07:17 AM
Sig2340
This is from 2018.
THis shit has been known about for a DECADE and bupkis was done.
PROSECUTE EVERY MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO HAD SO MUCH AS AN EMAIL SUGGESTING THIS WAS GOING ON AND DID NOTHING!
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
January 09, 2026, 07:38 AM
lastmanstanding
A lady was interviewed who worked for TSA in the Mpls airport. She had personally seen many suitcases filled with cash leaving the country. Every time it was brought through with usually two young Somali men. Each time they had to notify police who would check their passports and credentials which they always had and then they were allowed to proceed. Nothing illegal about taking cash out of the country. She also claimed to witness brief cases full of passports from all over the world passing through.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton
January 09, 2026, 07:55 AM
egregore
The more of this I hear about, as well as the denial, deflection and denigration ...
And those words all start with D.
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke
January 09, 2026, 07:58 AM
Sig2340
quote:
Originally posted by egregore: The more of this I hear about, as well as the denial, deflection and denigration ...
And those words all start with D.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
January 09, 2026, 11:10 AM
chellim1
Minnesota Fraud and Corruption is Rampant and Systemic
A state where every social safety net, worker protections, and charitable institutions are broken.
Moneyapolis, Fraudesota, where I used to spend much time, has been very welcoming to Somali fraudsters.
But, to be fair, it appears that nearly every government agency -- whether national, state, or local — as well as every NGO and nearly every alleged “charity,” is utterly corrupt and riddled with fraud.
How much of the money you gave to that NGO or charity actually ended up where you intended it to?
Zero percent? One or two percent? Perhaps as much as 30% or 40%?
Well, you don’t know, and neither do I, but in the vast majority of cases it is probably not even the latter. Is there any government agency -- or charitable organization, entity, or person receiving aid -- that isn’t fraudulent? Anyone? Buehler?
In truth, it likely would have done a lot more good — and a lot less bad -- had you and I just spent those dollars at a retail store. Or any private enterprise that employs people, pays them their salaries, and provides other benefits. Because those companies do pay the salaries of their employees, a significant percentage of which goes to purchasing goods and services, allowing other companies to employ a workforce and pay their employees’ salaries. Salaries with which they will, in turn, do the same.
Moreover, all of these folks pay taxes, often exorbitant, that go to the government to provide for the common defense, a social safety net, and a myriad other things, some arguably good, others not so much.
As do the companies themselves. Some of whom take out loans from financial institutions that subsequently spread that money around in the community. Others have checking and/or savings accounts with financial institutions, which allows those institutions to make those loans … to businesses and individuals alike.
We must pay our taxes under threat of incarceration, regardless of our will, whether that money is stolen and ultimately used to fund terror groups like al-Shabab, or is cycled through an NGO to enrich entitled bastards heading up groups like BLM, antifa, or the Democrat party.
Then we find out that the majority of “charitable” programs and groups are only charitable to their leaders or to the almost invariably left-wing causes they support. Many are actually working to bring about the mother of all welfare states rather than trying to help people get off assistance.
Tim Walz’s Minnesota, already awash in fraud, is embarking on yet another program that is begging to be taken advantage of. The Paid Family and Medical Leave Law will allow people to take up to 20 weeks a year off to care for a loved one … and still receive benefits from their employer.
There are no known effective guardrails to prevent rampant fraud. Wife suffering from depression? Uncle has a bum leg? Just get a doctor to sign off on the maladies and need for assistance and take 12 to 20 weeks off with compensation! The beer is cold and the fish are biting! Now that is Minnesota nice!
And Walz’s Department of Human Services not only mismanaged money but fabricated documents to cover its malfeasance!
And then we have union dues, which often end up lining the pockets of those with whom many unionized employees fervently disagree.
So it is better that we spend our money purchasing something at a store, restaurant, or other service outlet, that likely does everything it can to provide us with the best products and services at the lowest possible price, because that is what free markets, competition, entrepreneurship, and the capitalist system generally encourage private, for-profit companies to do.
For those who understand economics, the point at which the supply and demand curves intersect is not only the irrefutably logical price for any given product or service, it is the next closest thing to absolute truth.
As the late, great “investigative humorist” P.J. O’Rourke noted, “How can anything be worth other than what people are willing to pay for it?”
But, to governments, them's fightin’ words. They want to fix the prices as well as the tax rates, to level the playing field for the “marginalized.” And most of us know how that turns out. (Hint: very, very badly. For everyone.)
And yet we have many wanting socialism. Progressives excuse crime and blame victims. And instead of cheering ICE for taking countless rapists, thugs, and thieves off our streets, nearly all of whom are illegal aliens to begin with, Karens and other leftists are protecting the criminals and accosting the members of federal law enforcement. It seems many prefer chaos, side with evil, and demand no standards whatsoever, perhaps in a pathetic attempt to excuse their own behavior. Where does that leave us?
If even the Trump administration can’t substantively reduce the fraud and corruption endemic in our government, and if it is not allowed to deport the vast majority of illegals, we are permanently screwed. Because when Democrats take the reins again, it will be game … set … match, cheaters and hoodlums. Forever.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
January 09, 2026, 01:19 PM
Anush
In Minnesota, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced several initiatives to combat rampant government benefits fraud in Minnesota, which has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars. These initiatives are designed to strengthen and safeguard the financial system and protect Minnesota taxpayers. Secretary Bessent announced several actions taken by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to include the issuance of a Geographic Targeting Order to require banks and money transmitters located in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties to report additional information about funds transferred outside of the United States, as well as the issuance of an Alert to urge financial institutions to identify and report fraud associated with Federal child nutrition programs. In addition, FinCEN has issued four notices of investigation to money services businesses located in Minnesota, requesting information from these businesses—which provide financial services outside the formal banking system—for examination and investigative purposes under the Bank Secrecy Act. FinCEN today also provided on-the-ground training for Minnesota-based Federal, state, and local law enforcement on how to utilize financial data, such as Suspicious Activity Reports, to better combat these fraud schemes.
House Republicans successfully stripped a spending provision inserted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, preventing what the GOP said was yet another blatant attempt to steal federal tax dollars by giving them to a fake organization in Minnesota.
Critics are saying even though Omar is on the hot seat for her connections to fraud in Minnesota, she continues to try to help Somali migrants steal money.
Omar, a Somali migrant recently added the earmark to give over $1 million from the DOJ to Generation Hope MN, a Somali-led NGO billed as a substance abuse clinic. This provision was part of a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, but GOP lawmakers found it and eliminated it.
Generation Hope MN, claims to combat drug addiction and substance use disorders in the Somali migrant community.
However, the group is being accused of fraud, and its address is listed as an office space above a Somali restaurant - not at a medical facility.
The "clinic" is housed in upper-level offices above Sagal Restaurant and Coffee, a Somali eatery.
Run by three migrants who all list the same residential home in Minneapolis as their primary address on IRS filings, raising concerns about potential conflicts. Co-founder Abdirahman Warsame leads the group.
Despite not having records or significant income, the organization (and Omar) wanted $1 million to expand services, but there is no evidence of any success or auditing in the proposal.
Leading the charge to ax Omar's provision was Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who blasted the earmark as part of a "staggering" wave of Minnesota fraud that represents "just the tip of the iceberg."
"I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota!"
Omar says the Somali community needs the money, and people investigating the fraud are racist.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
January 09, 2026, 02:15 PM
400m
And people wonder why we hold the second in such high regard. Rope is too expensive. A D9 Caterpillar and an 03-A3 is a lot cheaper at solving these problems.
USDA Suspends Payment to Minnesota’s Food Programs Over Suspected Fraud
Minnesota and Minneapolis must provide documentation detailing expenditures before federal payments will resume.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suspended payments for all federal food programs in Minnesota and Minneapolis Friday over alleged fraud and abuse of federal funds statewide.
“Enough is enough!” USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on X, announcing the suspension. “The Trump administration has uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis—billions siphoned off by fraudsters. And those in charge have zero plan to fix it.” The agency plans to suspend all payments of federal financial awards to the state and city—totally about $130 million—until state and local officials provide documentation detailing expenditures and transactions for the past year, Rollins said.
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January 10, 2026, 01:41 PM
Sig2340
THE FISCAL INCOMPETENCE DOESN'T STOP!
Maryland out $760M in unemployment benefits that were over paid because they did not act in a timely manner.
Maryland overpaid $807.4 million in unemployment benefits since the COVID-19 pandemic and missed the opportunity to recover $760 million of that amount because it took too long do to so, state auditors said.
The report published Friday by the Office of Legislative Audits covered unemployment benefit paid out between Nov. 16, 2020, and Jan. 15, 2025, when states were flush with federal cash to help them through the pandemic and the sudden and historic loss of jobs that came with it. The chance to collect many of those overpayments passed in May 2025, the auditors said.
“That is quite concerning to me when we are not good stewards of taxpayer money,” said Sen. Shelly Hettleman (D-Baltimore County), co-chair of the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee. “We have a (budget) shortfall, and we need to make sure that our money is spent on the priorities and the values we adhere to.”
Labor Secretary Portia Wu said her department takes the findings of the audit “very seriously” and that it is working to recover as much as it can going forward. But she also noted that “about 90%” of the unrecoverable overpayments would have fallen under the administration of Gov. Larry Hogan (R), and that much of the money involved would not have been state funds, but federal money that states received during the pandemic.
“We had been working on addressing these underlying problems far before these audit findings,” Wu said Friday, noting that the department has recovered “over $500 million in fraudulent, overpaid claims in 2025” and is “pursuing another $1.3 billion in overpayments.”
The Labor Department’s Division of Unemployment Insurance collects unemployment insurance taxes from employers and distributes unemployment benefits. The department explains on its website that “overpayments can occur for several reasons, including unreported wages, changes in work availability, or identity theft or fraud committed by a third party, which was particularly an issue during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
During the pandemic, the federal government offered states additional money to help keep up with surging unemployment claims at the time.
“We all know that the unemployment system had enormous, enormous strains during COVID and it just wasn’t functional in the way it needed to be during that crisis,” Hettleman said. “And then there were lots of starts and stops to get it up and running, and then there were legal issues and lots of concerns about fraud.”
State auditors found that the unemployment division “did not timely pursue recovery of claimant overpayments totaling $807.4 million resulting in up to $760.7 million that is no longer collectable as of May 2025.”
The labor department argues that the unrecoverable overpayments are closer to $600 million. Wu also noted that part of the collection of those overpayments were stalled in January 2022 by a legal challenge, which did not lift until September 2023.
But the audit notes that the department did not have “sufficient” overpayment collection even after the suspension ended, “resulting in an additional $33.6 million in overpayments not being adequately pursued.”
In response, the department said there was “necessary back-end work to resume collection activities” which led to additional delays after the suspension was lifted.
“Many of these issues, I think it’s over 90% of these overpayments were prior to this administration and during the pandemic,” Wu said. “Many of them may have been fraudulent. I can’t go back in time to change what was done. But I think we’re focused on doing our very best to recover as much as possible going forward.
“Some of these unpursued claims are very old. So even if we had been able to take action slightly earlier, many of these payments are not recoverable because they’re older,” Wu said.
“Obviously if actions had been taken closer in time to those overpayments, perhaps more of them could have been recovered. But I couldn’t have taken any action before that, before that 2023 window,” when the legal suspension was lifted, she said.
Meanwhile, some Marylanders are getting hit with notices saying that they owe money to the state for unemployment benefits, some that date back during the COVID-19 pandemic years.
Wu acknowledges that the notices from so far back are likely leading to confusion among Marylanders, especially those who may have been subjected to identity theft and fraud, which was prevalent during the pandemic.
The audit comes just days before the start of the 2026 General Assembly, when lawmakers will be grappling with an estimated $1.6 billion deficit as they prepare the fiscal 2027 budget.
It’s not clear how much the unrecoverable funds were lost state dollars. Wu says that that most of the lost funds were federal COVID-19 assistance, so the lost dollars would “not impact” the Maryland unemployment insurance fund.
“Because of the overwhelming majority of benefits during that time were special federal benefits, even if they are recovered, they go immediately back to the U.S. Treasury,” she said.
Hettleman is skeptical, especially as the state faces a $1.6 billion budget shortfall. Every state dollar counts.
“There was quite a bit of delay in trying to get that money back and determine whether the state actually overpaid people,” she said. “I still have concerns in why did it take so long for the department to take some action to address those issues. And I don’t have a good answer to that right now, but we will try to get one.”
The audit also found additional oversight issues involving potentially fraudulent unemployment benefit payments, as well as two cyber security-related findings that are redacted from public view.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
January 11, 2026, 11:28 AM
chellim1
Bessent is Angry – Minnesota Governor Walz Refused to Provide any Security for Treasury Secretary
It appears that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is about to discover what happens when you anger the Treasury Secretary, who happens to be the IRS Commissioner. WATCH:
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
January 11, 2026, 11:44 AM
Anush
quote:
Bessent is Angry – Minnesota Governor Walz Refused to Provide any Security for Treasury Secretary
It appears that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is about to discover what happens when you anger the Treasury Secretary, who happens to be the IRS Commissioner. WATCH:
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!
Sigs Owned - A Bunch
January 11, 2026, 12:09 PM
jsbcody
Hmmm....maybe we will need all those IRS Investigating Agents.....just saying.
January 11, 2026, 12:13 PM
6guns
^^^ Funny how the tables can turn.
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January 11, 2026, 12:31 PM
corsair
In 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed to prevent racial discrimination and put more teeth behind the 14 & 15th Amendments, there was a number of sections & provision that specifically targeted 'jurisdictions that had a history of discrimination' thus those areas (Southern states) were subject to greater oversight and required approval from the Federal government for any changes to those areas voting laws.
While a number of components of the law have recently been struck-down by the SCOTUS in the last decade, perhaps its time a similar type of oversight and approval provisions need to be applied when it comes to Federal funding to those states who flaunt, ignore and obstruct issues around fraud and impropriety of those funds? It's becoming more acute that deep-Blue states and urban municipalities are hot beds in the fraud and misuse of funds intended towards well meaning but easily exploitable causes.
