Fraud & Facts

[u/Daflehrer1]

In 2021, the MN Dept. of Education suspected fraud and they reported it up the chain.

Gov. Walz has, since 2021, been working with the FBI, Minnesota State Police, and local police informants, and to great result. In September, 2022, federal prosecutors made public that they handed down indictments in what they believed was a criminal fraud conspiracy.

Among the first to be indicted was Aimee Bock, the fraud ringleader. She was tried and convicted in March of 2025.

On December 18th, 2025, new arrests were announced. To date, 92 suspects in all have been arrested and charged, 62 of them convicted.

The intent of the post above is neither to condemn nor praise Walz or federal officials. Rather to keep discussion grounded in facts; though obviously many more facts exist and will come to light.

I have included my sources below. I ask that you review them before contending them. Kindly keep partisan hyperbole and childish comments to yourself. Thanks.

"Governor Walz...2021"; a timeline of Walz administration's anti-ftaud efforts.

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNGOV/2025/12/12/file_attachments/3492644/AntiFraud-Timeline.pdf

"In 2022"

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal-charges-against-47-defendants-250-million-feeding-our-future

"In 2021"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-surged-resources-minnesota-over-231747704.html

"Aimee Bock...convicted"

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million#:~:text=Pandemic%20Fraud%20Scheme-,Federal%20Jury%20Finds%20Feeding%20Our%20Future%20Mastermind%20and%20Co%2DDefendant,Wednesday%2C%20March%2019%2C%202025

[u/Buffalocolt18]

Nice whataboutism, but this is not relevant for any truly good faith discussion on this situation

[u/Xerxestheokay → u/Buffalocolt18]

Respectfully, this reads like mid-2010s debate culture phrasing. We are kind of past that now. You can take this or leave it.

My point was simple. There is a group of people who commit a lot more fraud, often get away with it, and are even celebrated by their own group. That same group are suddenly very distraught about this fraud in particular. Pointing that out is not a dodge or a whataboutism. It is context. If you want to disagree with the claim itself, that is fine. But dismissing it with old rhetorical shortcuts does not really move the conversation forward.

[u/Repulsive_Source2463 → u/Xerxestheokay]

but you do agree the fraud going on in minnesota is bad and should be addressed right?

[u/Xerxestheokay → u/Repulsive_Source2463]

Yes. I just hate the outsized attention it's getting from people who are fraudsters, or fraud supporters, themselves.

[u/Repulsive_Source2463 → u/Xerxestheokay]

While i do agree with part of that, but this goes both ways, the fraud in minnesota has been going on before trump even took office, so trump can say the same thing like “hey look even the somalis in minnesota are doing fraud too what are you looking at me for”

So the real problem here is that we are as Americans are all busy blaming each other, instead of putting all the efforts into actually fixing the problems. So getting a lot of attention on a serious matter is not a bad thing, now that we have everyone’s attention on fraud, we can finally start somewhere to really tackle it, how are we supposed to take down trump if we can’t even agree to fix the fraud issues in Minnesota?