(NewsNation) — Years before recent fraud allegations surfaced in Minnesota, a whistleblower warned of social services fraud happening in the state.
Now, he’s breaking his silence after years in hiding.
“I stand by my allegations,” Scott Stillman said. “I stand by my claims about the $100 million. It could be higher. I stand by my claim that this money is going overseas into hands that could be detrimental to the United States,” he said in 2018 to the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Scott Stillman was a digital forensics supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Human Services from 2007 to 2017. He testified before the Minnesota Senate and House in 2017 and 2018 about his findings.
“Believe me, Minnesota’s government programs are being victimized by organized crime because of lack of controls,” he said in his testimony. “I would like to request a federal investigation of how these programs are being run and managed at DHS.”
Stillman was the first to blow the whistle on what he and his colleagues uncovered as early as 2015: fake day cares allegedly defrauding Medicaid of millions.
“Every time I did a search warrant, every single time, we went through the door during business hours, there were never children in there, ever,” Stillman told NewsNation. “It was set up with tables and chairs and toys, but they appeared disused, dusty. I never saw a child in any of those.”
He told NewsNation that members of the Somali community ran every day care he investigated.
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