First Heard About It While in the Refugee Camp in Kenya

🚨 BREAKING: Jay Swanson, a former state trooper who investigated child care fraud in Minnesota, provides damning testimony to the House fraud committee

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… a number of different states, but it was easiest and you could make the most money doing it in Minnesota."

Swanson then detailed the retaliation he says he faced from Department of Human Services leaders and said he was told to delete some of his answers to an inquiry from the legislative auditor.

"I soon had a senior DHS official in my office, angry, red-faced, and almost yelling. The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs ... I then advised this official that I believed what they were telling me to do was illegal."

"I told them that the fraud was so huge that sooner or later it would come to light."