Emmer Says $250 Million Minnesota Fraud Will Dog Flanagan's Senate Bid

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 13

Tom Emmer said Minnesota's welfare fraud scandal will be a central issue in Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan's Senate race after she won the Democratic nomination Tuesday.
The attack centers on fraud under Gov. Tim Walz's administration, where prosecutors say schemes siphoned about $250 million from taxpayer-funded programs and roughly 80 defendants have been indicted.
Aimee Bock, founder of Feeding Our Future, was sentenced earlier this year to 500 months in prison in the highest-profile case tied to the scandal.
Flanagan's vulnerability had already surfaced in the Democratic primary, when Rep. Angie Craig said the lieutenant governor had taken no accountability for the fraud issues.
The scandal has become a broader political liability in Minnesota: Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison say Republicans are overstating it, but scrutiny already pushed Walz to forgo a re-election bid.