Image Credit: Chesnot / Contributor / Getty Images Elon Musk has called for the prosecution of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over allegations of rampant fraud in the state’s Somali community.
“Prosecute Tim Walz,” Tweeted Musk, in response to a bombshell video by investigative journalist Nick Shirley, in which he visits fake childcare centers in Minnesota that are hoovering up tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
In the video and accompanying post, Shirley said he and his team were able to identify more than $110,000,000 of fraud in just a single day by visiting organizations claiming to be childcare centers and other health institutions eligible for government funding.
Multiple childcare centers were shown to have no children in them at all.
Last week, Infowars reported that Medicaid fraud in Minnesota could total as much as $9 billion since 2018.
Speaking at a press conference, First Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson revealed the shocking figure.
Thompson said 14 Medicaid services in the state are now being audited as “high risk” for fraud. Those programs cost around $18 billion since 2018.
He said a “significant amount” of that total was fraud, but didn’t specify an exact total.
“I don’t make these generalizations in a hasty way,” he later added.
“When I say significant amount, I’m talking on the order of half or more. But we’ll see. When I look at the claims data and the providers, I see more red flags than I see legitimate providers.”
“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. It’s staggering amounts of money that have been lost.”
President Trump has called Minnesota a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” under its Democrat governor, Tim Walz.