2026-06-08 16:55:01 EDT / 福克斯新闻
报告将民主党总检察长基思·埃利森被指的不作为与“喂养我们的未来”项目3亿美元被盗及90亿美元医疗补助欺诈行为联系起来
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻
发布于2026年6月8日 美国东部时间下午4:55
众议院监督委员会公布了一份引发轰动的报告，详细披露了明尼苏达州猖獗的欺诈行为，指控州长蒂姆·瓦尔茨和总检察长基思·埃利森自2019年以来无视预警信号，并对举报人进行报复。报告称，州官员因担心被指控种族主义而未采取行动，还披露了一起针对自闭症中心的9000万美元欺诈案。
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众议院监督委员会的共和党多数派在周一发布的一份205页的报告中，指责明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森多次就明尼苏达州大规模的“喂养我们的未来”欺诈丑闻的公开说法前后矛盾。
这起丑闻将这个“万湖之州”推到了全国聚光灯下，引发了一系列新闻调查和国会调查，揭露了更广泛的浪费、欺诈和滥用职权网络，包括指控明尼苏达州索马里裔社区成员利用社会服务框架向不符合条件的受助者转移数百万美元，其中包括摩加迪沙地区的恐怖组织。
报告描述了多起调查人员称表明埃利森和州长蒂姆·瓦尔茨早在其公开承认的时间之前就已知晓欺诈担忧的案例。
“州长和总检察长早在2020年4月就知晓儿童和成人护理食品计划（CACFP）和夏季食品服务计划（SFSP）中的欺诈行为，尽管他们向媒体发表了相反的说法，”委员会表示。
瓦尔茨政府无视欺诈警告，数十亿美元资金消失，众议院监督报告指控
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6389137598112
“州长和总检察长早在2019年春季就知晓儿童护理援助计划以及非紧急医疗运输计划中的欺诈行为。州长和总检察长还在任职期间的不同时间得知了另外13个高风险医疗补助计划中的欺诈行为，但未采取行动。”
对教育、人类服务和行政办公室官员的采访让调查人员得出结论，埃利森早在欺诈行为公开前数年就已知晓相关担忧。
这些采访发现，埃利森早在2019年就知晓州政府管理的“高风险医疗补助计划”中的欺诈行为，并将这一时间线与超过3亿美元的“喂养我们的未来”欺诈行为，以及联邦检察官估计的高达90亿美元的高风险医疗补助计划欺诈行为联系起来。
大规模医疗补助欺诈计划危及明尼苏达州的联邦资金——后果可能扩大
委员会表示，无法确定埃利森被指未能保护明尼苏达州纳税人的行为是“不作为、故意视而不见或更严重的情况”。
埃利森的办公室强烈反驳了共和党人的调查结果，称这份报告“充满了不准确和虚假陈述，目的是将欺诈问题政治化”。
其中一个例子是，委员会提到埃利森在2022年9月发布的一份新闻稿，该新闻稿“歪曲了”其办公室知晓“喂养我们的未来”（FOF）涉嫌不当行为的时间线，以及该非营利组织对明尼苏达州教育部（MDE）的诉讼威胁。
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6393317885112
埃利森称他在“2020年秋季”介入，为明尼苏达州教育部对抗FOF的法律威胁提供建议和支持。然而，委员会发现，明尼苏达州教育部早在2020年4月就遭到了FOF的对峙，委员会称这导致民主党人拖延了数月时间。
明尼苏达州教育部助理专员达伦·科特向委员会作证称，直到次年，该机构才宣布FOF在遵守联邦项目规则方面存在“严重缺陷”，并对其下达了停止付款令。
科特表示，明尼苏达州教育部一直有权这么做，但恢复了付款并犹豫不决，担心被起诉。
报告发现，埃利森和瓦尔茨知晓涉嫌欺诈的时间远比他们承认或宣布的要早。
明尼苏达州卫生与人类服务部举报人在举报欺诈担忧后详述“抹黑运动”
“[他们]声称，在可能数十亿美元资金流失很久之后，他们才对明尼苏达州普遍存在的欺诈行为知之甚少，并且认为在2019年他们就职前就存在的儿童护理欺诈行为在他们上任时已经得到解决，”报告称。
委员会指责埃利森拖延对“喂养我们的未来”和其他问题的监督，并将这位前国会议员描述为等待联邦政府替他完成工作。
他们写道，尽管他在2020年春季就了解情况，但他直到两年后联邦调查局关于大流行期间欺诈调查的新闻曝光后才采取纠正行动。
在“喂养我们的未来”负责人艾米·博克的审判中，辩方提交了第710号证据，其中包含一段近一小时的录音，内容是埃利森总检察长于2021年会见该案的几名被告。
这些被告包括一家现已倒闭的索马里餐厅老板萨利姆·赛义德，他被判20项重罪，以及其他人员，包括沙库尔·阿卜迪努尔·阿卜杜萨拉姆，他于3月认罪，被判欺诈联邦政府数百万美元。
根据报告，埃利森最初告诉一名记者，他准备会见穆罕默德·奥马尔——他的朋友、明尼苏达州布卢明顿市达勒法鲁克清真寺的伊玛目，并称他到达会场时对其他与会者在场感到惊讶。
埃利森与定罪欺诈犯会面的录音重新浮出水面，律师指控瓦尔茨与总检察长共同承担责任
明尼苏达州总检察长基思·埃利森于2026年2月12日在华盛顿特区参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会作证。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社）
但委员会称，这一说法与埃利森在听证会上对佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢纳所说的话相矛盾，当时他称该团体找到他，寻求解决“与官僚机构打交道的困难”。
埃利森告诉卢纳，他调查了他们告诉他的情况，然后与联邦政府合作起诉嫌疑人，最终有57人被判有罪。
“他们并非他们自称的那样，”埃利森说。
报告发现，与会的一些人承诺“如果埃利森干预他们所称的被政府机构种族定性或歧视的指控，将为埃利森提供索马里社区的政治和财政支持”。
埃利森回应称，他将帮助“对抗这些人”。
当密苏里州共和党众议员埃里克·伯利森在听证会上就这次交流质问瓦尔茨时，州长表示这是他第一次听说此事，并表示不会对此“猜测”。
格雷格·贾勒特：如果瓦尔茨在明尼苏达州欺诈丑闻中被指控，他的最佳辩护是不作为
委员会进一步发现，当被问及他的起诉权限时，埃利森表示他对医疗补助欺诈调查拥有管辖权，但其他刑事案件必须由县检察官移交。
该小组辩称，这明显遗漏了此前在参议院作证时的内容，当时埃利森称非医疗补助刑事案件也可由州长办公室移交给他。
埃利森的发言人布莱恩·埃文斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，众议院“实际上应该帮助明尼苏达州保护税收收入，打击欺诈者”，这样会更有意义。
“记录清楚地表明，总检察长埃利森尽可能在他能够做到的时候，尽快打击欺诈行为，”埃文斯说。
“在总检察长埃利森有权提起刑事指控的领域，他已经起诉并定罪了超过340名医疗补助欺诈者。事实上，埃利森总检察长的医疗补助欺诈控制单元经常被评为全国最有效的医疗补助欺诈打击单元之一。”
共和党议员在明尼苏达州欺诈丑闻中损失数十亿美元后推出瓦尔茨法案
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390425606112
至于报告中提到的管辖权划分问题，埃文斯表示，当埃利森没有适当的管辖权去打击欺诈者时，他会为明尼苏达州辩护，抵御那些试图隐藏骗局的人的无聊诉讼。
埃利森的办公室表示，他们最近在圣保罗提出了一项立法，以扩大其医疗补助欺诈控制单元，并补充称，众议院报告没有正确区分总检察长办公室和其他机构的权限。
埃利森的办公室表示，他们仅被授权起诉医疗补助欺诈，其他社会服务欺诈属于各县或联邦政府的管辖范围。
瓦尔茨的发言人泰迪·查恩单独告诉福克斯新闻，这份报告表明委员会“一次又一次地证明不过是个笑话”，因为它“重提新冠疫情时期的欺诈问题，以转移人们对无休止的战争、汽油价格、移民海关执法局以及唐纳德·特朗普总统所谓的内幕交易的注意力”。
众议院报告指出，瓦尔茨和埃利森都有机会在2026年3月的听证会上解释他们的行为，但未能提供委员会认为足够的答复。
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Minnesota fraud report accuses state AG of ‘incompetence, willful blindness or worse’
2026-06-08 16:55:01 EDT / Fox News
Report links Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison’s alleged inaction to $300M stolen through Feeding Our Future and $9B in Medicaid fraud
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
Published June 8, 2026 4:55pm EDT
The House Oversight Committee unveils a bombshell report detailing rampant fraud in Minnesota, accusing Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison of ignoring warning signs and retaliating against whistleblowers since 2019. The report alleges state officials failed to act, fearing accusations of racism, and highlights a $90 million fraud against autism centers.
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The House Oversight Committee’s Republican majority accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of repeatedly contradicting public accounts of Minnesota’s massive Feeding Our Future fraud scandal in a 205-page report released Monday.
The scandal, which thrust the Land of 10,000 Lakes into the national spotlight, set off a chain of journalistic and congressional investigations that exposed a wider web of waste, fraud and abuse, including allegations that members of Minnesota’s Somali community exploited the social services framework to funnel millions of dollars to unqualified recipients, including Mogadishu-area terror groups.
The report describes several instances that investigators said show Ellison and Gov. Tim Walz were aware of fraud concerns earlier than they publicly acknowledged.
“The governor and the attorney general knew about fraud in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) as early as April 2020, despite contrary claims made to the media,” the committee said.
WALZ ADMINISTRATION IGNORED FRAUD WARNINGS AS BILLIONS VANISHED, HOUSE OVERSIGHT REPORT ALLEGES
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6389137598112
“The governor and the attorney general knew about fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program as well as Non-Emergency Medical Transportation program as early as spring 2019. The Governor and the Attorney General also became aware of fraud in 13 additional high-risk Medicaid programs at various times during their tenure and failed to act.”
Interviews with education, human services and executive-office officials led investigators to conclude Ellison was aware of fraud concerns years before they became public.
Those interviews found Ellison was aware of fraud in “high-risk Medicaid programs” administered by the state as early as 2019 and tied that timeline to more than $300 million in Feeding Our Future fraud and what federal prosecutors estimate could be up to $9 billion in fraud involving high-risk Medicaid programs.
MASSIVE MEDICAID FRAUD SCHEME PUTS MINNESOTA’S FEDERAL FUNDING AT RISK — AND FALLOUT COULD WIDEN
The committee said it was unable to determine whether Ellison’s alleged failure to protect Minnesota taxpayers was “incompetence, willful blindness or worse.”
Ellison’s office pushed back hard on Republicans’ findings, calling the report “riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations in order to politicize the issue of fraud.”
In one example, the committee recounted how Ellison issued a press release in September 2022 that “misrepresents the timeline” of his office’s knowledge of alleged impropriety by Feeding Our Future (FOF), and a threat of litigation from the nonprofit against the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE).
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6393317885112
Ellison claimed he stepped in during the “Fall of 2020” to advise and support MDE against the legal threat from FOF. However, the committee found that MDE had been confronted by FOF in April 2020, leaving what the committee described as months of delay by Democrats.
MDE Assistant Commissioner Daron Korte testified to the committee that it wasn’t until the following year that his agency declared “serious deficiency” in FOF’s compliance with federal program rules – and placed a stop-pay order against them.
Korte said MDE always had the authority to do so, but resumed payments and hedged for fear of being taken to court.
The report found Ellison and Walz showed knowledge of alleged fraud much earlier than they admitted or announced.
MINNESOTA DHS WHISTLEBLOWER DETAILS ‘SMEAR CAMPAIGN’ AFTER REPORTING FRAUD CONCERNS TO STATE
“[They] claimed to know very little about the widespread fraud occurring in Minnesota until long after potentially billions of dollars had gone out the door, and believed that the child care fraud that predated the beginning of their terms in 2019 had been resolved by the time they took office,” the report said.
The committee accused Ellison of slow-walking oversight of FOF and other concerns and characterized the former congressman as instead waiting for the federal government to do his job for him.
They wrote that despite his spring 2020 knowledge of the situation, his corrective actions did not come until after news of the FBI’s pandemic-fraud investigation emerged two years later.
During the trial of FOF leader Aimee Bock, the defense presented Exhibit 710, which included a nearly hour-long recording of AG Ellison meeting with several defendants in the case in 2021.
They included the owner of a now-defunct Somali restaurant, Salim Said, who was convicted of 20 felonies, and others, including Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, who pleaded guilty in March to defrauding the federal government of millions of dollars.
According to the report, Ellison originally told a reporter that he was prepared to meet with Mohamed Omar, a friend of his who is the Imam of Bloomington, Minnesota’s Dar al-Farooq mosque, and that he was surprised the other attendees were there when he arrived.
AUDIO OF ELLISON MEETING WITH CONVICTED FRAUDSTERS RESURFACES AS LAWYER ALLEGES WALZ, AG SHARE BLAME
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg)
But the committee contended that account contradicted what Ellison told Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., during the hearing, when he described the group as coming to him and seeking solutions to “difficult[ies] with the bureaucracy.”
Ellison told Luna that he investigated what they told him, and then worked with the feds to prosecute suspects, tallying 57 that were convicted of crimes.
“They were not what they claimed to be,” Ellison said.
The report found some at the meeting had “pledged the Somali community’s political and financial support to Ellison” if he intervened in their claims they were being racially profiled or discriminated against by government agencies.
Ellison responded that he would help “fight these people.”
When Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., confronted Walz about that exchange during a hearing, the governor said it was his first time hearing it and that he would not “speculate” on it.
GREGG JARRETT: IF WALZ IS CHARGED IN MINNESOTA FRAUD SCANDAL, HIS BEST DEFENSE IS INCOMPETENCE
The committee further found that, when asked about his prosecutorial authority, Ellison said he has jurisdiction over Medicaid fraud probes but that other criminal cases must be referred by county attorneys.
The panel contended that this was an obvious omission from prior testimony before the Senate, when Ellison said non-Medicaid criminal cases may also be referred to him by the governor’s office.
Ellison spokesman Brian Evans told Fox News Digital that the House would be better served by “actually helping Minnesota protect tax dollars and go after fraudsters.”
“The record is clear that Attorney General Ellison fought fraud wherever possible and as soon as he was able to,” Evans said.
“In areas where Attorney General Ellison has the authority to file criminal charges, he has charged and convicted over 340 Medicaid fraudsters. In fact, Attorney General Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit regularly ranks as one of the most effective Medicaid fraud-fighting units in the nation.”
GOP LAWMAKER UNVEILS WALZ ACT AFTER BILLIONS LOST IN MINNESOTA FRAUD SCANDAL
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As for the jurisdictional divisions mentioned in the report, Evans said that when Ellison didn’t have proper jurisdiction to go after fraudsters, he defended Minnesota from frivolous litigation by those trying to hide schemes.
Ellison recently introduced legislation in St. Paul to broaden his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, his office said, while adding that the House report does not properly distinguish between authorities of the AG’s office and other agencies.
Ellison’s office said they remain solely empowered to prosecute Medicaid fraud and that other social services fraud is the purview of counties or the feds.
Walz spokesman Teddy Tschann told Fox News separately the report shows the committee has proven itself “time and time again to be nothing more than a joke” by “rehash[ing] COVID-era fraud to distract from endless wars, gas prices, ICE and President Donald Trump’s alleged insider trading.”
The House report noted both Walz and Ellison were given an opportunity to explain their actions during the March 2026 hearing but failed to provide what the committee considered sufficient answers.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., was so alarmed by the investigation’s findings, he sent a letter Monday to Vice President JD Vance — in the Ohioan’s capacity as chair of the White House Task Force to eliminate fraud — to conduct its own thorough review of Minnesota’s social services programs.
Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
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