MN Welfare Fraud Scandal Makes Tim Walz Look Even SHADIER As MN DHS Employee Names NAMES, Drops RECEIPTS
http://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/01/mn-dhs-employee-starts-naming-names-fraud-tim-walz-n2422303
As Twitchy readers know, Tim Walz is in hot water after allegations of health and human services fraud came to light, and an anonymous X account supposedly representing 480 staff of the Minnesota Department of Human Services said he was 100% to blame.
Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) ~ Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.
In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.
This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.
As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.
It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.
Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”
As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.
We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.
All sorts of ouch, right?
Welp, that account has struck again, this time naming names and sharing some receipts so we have an even better idea of how bad it has been in Minnesota, and you guys? Woof. So much woof. All the woof.
Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) ~ As we’ve shared in past, Shireen Gandhi is an instrument of Tim Walz and cannot be trusted to lead the DHS, whether temporary or otherwise. Since 2017, we’ve seen astronomical fraud, worse than even the 2014 fraud scandals, that have gone unchecked. What we are aware of is that Shireen is untrustworthy and as chief compliance officer during the years of fraud, has failed miserably.
Right now, DHS is quietly deleting data under the guise of data migration or systems enhancements. We’re finding many documents becoming untraceable.
Data going missing, documents vanishing, meeting notes where leadership decisions are made are now gone - especially our OneNote files. What’s apparent is that Shireen Gandhi doesn’t want outsiders to see what happens behind DHS walls as seen with her feeble excuses and vehement opposition against external auditing agencies coming into DHS.
http://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-dhs-commissioner-expresses-legal-concern-over-inspector-general/
But wait, there's more:
Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees (@Minnesota_DHS) ~ Minnesota’s Olmstead Office (OIO) is separate from DHS, but all sit under the same state government. And there’s a troubling pattern: when oversight breaks down in one division, leaders are quietly shifted elsewhere — without transparency or accountability.
Now Natasha Merz, whose DHS division saw leadership layers grow while oversight of disability services (including EIDBI) remained negligible, is moved into a civil-rights leadership role at OIO.
Earlier, Dave Greeman left DHS following major financial irregularities and surfaced in Hennepin County leadership without any public explanation.
This raises serious questions:
🔹 Is the state moving leaders between agencies to avoid accountability?
🔹 How does recycling leadership after oversight failures protect Minnesotans with disabilities?
🔹 Does this practice enable fraud, weaken public trust, and undermine people’s ability to trace responsibility?
🔹 Who is evaluating performance before reassigning leaders with major oversight gaps?
Different agency ... same government ... same pattern. Minnesotans deserve transparency — not musical chairs with public accountability.
Not musical chairs with public accountability.
Now THAT'S a great point, because it sounds like exactly what has been going on.
Should Walz resign? Probably. Will he? Probably not.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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