A group of Minnesota state employees says it repeatedly alerted former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee about what it describes as serious problems in Gov. Tim Walz’s administration, including “incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation.”
The account, called Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees on X, says it represents more than 480 current staff members at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. In a recent post, the group wrote that it had contacted Harris and party officials multiple times but felt ignored.
“We tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Maybe Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to fraud like her running mate?,” the account posted.
“Over the years, our messages have not changed. We need fraud to stop in Minnesota and good governance to be restored,” the group added.
Neither the DNC nor Harris’ team immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Walz, a two-term governor and former U.S. congressman, was tapped as Harris’ running mate in August 2024.
In a post from September 2024 replying directly to Harris’ account, the employee group said Walz had “caused incredible harm to our state & agencies, [and] retaliated against whistleblowers against fraud.”
Minnesota is now at the center of a widening fraud controversy as federal prosecutors continue to untangle a series of schemes, including one of the largest COVID-era fraud cases in the country.
The Justice Department recently announced new charges against the 78th defendant in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. Prosecutors say the scheme involved more than $300 million in stolen funds from a federally funded child nutrition program and has already led to more than 50 convictions. Many of the defendants come from Minnesota’s Somali community.
According to reporting from The New York Times, what at first looked to many Minnesotans like a single pandemic-era fraud case has expanded into a broader concern for both state and federal officials. Over the past five years, law enforcement authorities say multiple fraud schemes have taken root in parts of Minnesota’s Somali community, with some individuals allegedly creating companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never actually provided.
State Rep. Marion Rarick, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital that she has been examining the fraud issues since she was appointed to the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee in January. She said she reached out earlier this year to the whistleblowers behind the Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees account to ask if they would speak to the newly formed committee.
“They agreed,” Rarick said, noting that she has been in regular contact with them since then, including during an in-person meeting.
State Rep. Kristin Robbins, R-Minn., has also publicly praised the group. In a post on X, she called the whistleblowers “heroes.”
“We have been meeting with them for months and they are trying to clean up state gov’t after @Tim_Walz [’s] utter failure to hold his agencies accountable,” Robbins wrote.
