Whistleblowers continue to come forward with reports about rampant fraud in Minnesota. One of them has been trying to sound the alarm for years while millions of taxpayer dollars disappeared. “Absolutely it's been allowed to happen," she said.
A whistleblower, who tried to call attention to fraud in Minnesota, joined Liz Collin on her podcast. She still works in county government and asked that we protect her identity for the interview, so we called her Susan.
Susan spoke out on Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) fraud, a program funded by Medicaid and administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The program was officially shut down on Oct. 31.
“What I witnessed firsthand, there were a lot of red flags,” she said.
“I would go out to my client’s homes … and the so-called provider for the service would say, ‘We will see you weekly. We will be emailing weekly. We will be looking for housing together weekly,'” Susan explained.
However, she pointed out that “as soon as we’d signed the contracts and they would leave, we would never hear from them again.”
“And then I would say two months later, we would find out that that person is gone or this place is gone. They’re no longer there. Meanwhile, the whole few months, there were zero services provided. Then we’d start the process all over again with a new person coming out,” she added.
“It’s always someone in their 20s, probably a very entry-level position when we have to sign new contracts …...
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