MAJOR UPDATE: Walz Faces Criminal Prosecution Probe Referred by JD Vance

Added: 2026-06-10

[00:00:00]Vice President Vance said Monday he will refer Minnesota Governor Tim Walls and State Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department for a criminal fraud investigation prompted by findings from a house oversight committee.

[00:00:10]>> What this is and it's unofficial letterhead of the vice president. It goes to the assistant attorney general Colin McDonald and this is of the new national fraud enforcement division.

[00:00:22]>> This is Doge right also is involved with Doge. So for people who say the Doge doesn't exist, >> right? Well, this and this is specifically an a division within the DOJ that is now handling fraud investigations. And this is it says, "Yesterday, you and I received a letter and report from Congressman James Comr, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Uh the 205page report contains shocking allegations about the failure of senior officials in Minnesota government to address widespread fraud in the fedally funded social services program in the state. It goes on to specifically point to the current governor and attorney general Tim Walsh and Keith Ellison and is going on to ask the department to uh respond to the referral appropriately and urgently. So basically open an investigation, look into this as there is a lot of evidence in that report and we'll get into that in the next segment. But this is the vice president of the United States ahead of this fraud task force that was started at the uh the um state of the union address just a few months back is already sending a referral to the DOJ to investigate the governor of Minnesota.

[00:01:42]>> Let's not forget let's not forget that just a few short months ago Tim Walls was running for reelection and he decided I'm not going to run for re-election. Why? because it had become abundantly clear to his constituents that the fraud and the abuse that was happening was happening not only under his watch but maybe with him turning a blind eye to it.

[00:02:03]>> Let's hear what he had to say on Fox right after they sent this letter by two.

[00:02:08]>> I left the White House to come here uh to to do this interview with you and before I did, we actually referred this particular case to the Department of Justice for full full criminal investigation. We are not going to do what the Biden administration did and make judgments of the law before all the facts are in. But but here's what's particularly troubling about this to me is is Jesse, you had people within Governor Waltz's office who were saying, you know what, this looks like fraud. It looks like these Somalian illegal immigrants are doing something that's very shady. And then you had people who shut them down, who shut these whistleblowers down and said, you know, you're a racist or you're a xenophobe for asking questions about where taxpayer money is going. What that means to me, Jesse, is that clearly people weren't taking fraud seriously, whether it rises to the level of a criminal violation, we're going to investigate it. And of course, if it does rise to that level, we're going to prosecute it.

[00:03:03]We have to. And here are the four different issues that are raised by the vice president from this report from the house oversight committee but in this referral to the department of justice that the committee has alleged the following based on its review of testimonial and documentary evidence and remember this is a 205 page report.

[00:03:23]Senior officials in the Governor Wals's office and Attorney General Ellison's office were aware of credible systemic fraud concerns in social services programs as early as 2019.

[00:03:35]Despite later public statements by Governor Waltz suggesting otherwise, instead of trying to stop widespread fraud, Governor Waltz's administration retaliated against employees who tried to raise concerns, going to great lengths to keep them quiet, including intimidation through regular check-ins with highlevel agency officials and threats of surveillance. These and other failures by officials in the state allowed an estimated 300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially 9 billion in Medicaid related funds to be lost or placed at serious risk. Fraudulently obtained funds likely ended up in the hands of international terrorist networks and certainly funded the lavish lifestyles of criminal fraudsters while vulnerable populations were harmed. the ability for fraud to continue and grow in this country under whether it be through uh federal Medicaid funds or child nutrition dollars, it's got to stop. And when you think about a country that has so much national debt and when the the even the concerns of fiscal conservatives have been ignored for so long, even if we were just to deal with fraud, it would put the United States in such a better place financially and economically because of you look at what's going on in California, what's going on here, and if people are not held accountable, and I don't just mean the fraudsters, I the people that are allowing this to continue, the programs that have been created in such a loose way. And whether it's electorally like the governor who will no longer be the governor, he was trying to go for a historic run or even if there is criminal culpability, something has got to be done to write the path here because if we don't, then the fraudsters are going to keep getting away with it. They're going to get more and more brazen and more programs are going to be created on top of these that allow this to continue to grow.