(NewsNation) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced that staff have been sent to Minnesota to investigate allegations of welfare fraud in the state.
This comes in response to the discovery of more than a dozen programs that have been allegedly billing the state for millions of dollars in Medicaid services that never occurred. In a post on X Thursday, HUD Secretary Scott Turner wrote that the department is “investigating the disturbing, rampant fraud in Minnesota and ensuring that HUD programs are not being infiltrated and manipulated.”
“To the president’s point, we have to root out this fraud and abuse and this waste. Because this is hardworking American taxpayer funds. And there has been criminal activity going on,” Turner told Fox News.
A HUD official told the Washington Examiner in December that investigators in both D.C. and Minnesota will be “reviewing data from Minnesota’s public housing authorities to ensure all federal housing programs are not being defrauded.”