4 Takeaways From Top Minnesota Officials’ Testimony on State’s Massive Fraud

Two of Minnesota’s top officials—Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison—testified before Congress for more than four hours on March 4 about their state’s multibillion-dollar fraud controversies. During the latest hearing on Capitol Hill, Republicans tried to pin down when the two Democratic leaders were alerted to the fraud, why payments continued afterward, and what role politics may have played. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) summed up the scandal this way: “While whistleblowers were silenced, fraudsters got rich.” Comer chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has now held two hearings on Minnesota fraud cases this year....