In recent days we have seen the appearance of witnesses to Minnesota’s monstrous public-programs fraud. This is a selective compilation of some recent testimony. Minnesota’s Department of Human Services is the swamp from which the monster has appeared with forelegs outstretched. It’s like The Monster That Devoured Cleveland. I refer to it below as DHS.
Ryan Thorpe interviewed Faye Bernstein for the January 26 City Journal column “Minnesota DHS Employee on Welfare Fraud: ‘This Is Real.’” Well, yes, that’s what we have been saying. Bernstein provides a powerful short course in the first-person on the fraud in front of our nose.
Minnesota’s Alpha News has followed the story all along the way. Alpha News has now posted the video below of former DHS investigator Scott Dexter giving an inside view of what he saw.
🚨WATCH: ‘What we found was deeply concerning’
Scott Dexter, a former Minnesota Department of Human Services investigator, testified to Congress that he spent nearly three decades conducting criminal and financial fraud investigations, including in the state’s Child Care… pic.twitter.com/0ICGUdZGuS
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) February 1, 2026
Bill Glahn and others have taken note of a group of anonymous DHS staffers blowing the whistle on X (“We are over 480 Minnesota state staff serving with pride & commitment to our people & state. We strive for a better Minnesota free of fraud”). Their X account was deleted and reemerged under the rubric Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary. These staffers testified to the internal abuse that resulted in the suppression of their concerns. Bill turned to the group for his American Experiment post “So much fraud.”
Now comes a document written by self-described current and former state employees imploring Congress to investigate DHS. The document decries “serious and systemic” failures within DHS and observes that the employees’ “warnings were ignored, dismissed, or met with retaliation.” They describe a toxic workplace and “governance failure with statewide and federal implications.” Their seven-page letter is posted online under the title Collective Request for Congressional Oversight: Systemic Retaliation and Governance Failure at the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The Alpha News/Liz Collin Reports series is a valuable source of information. Scroll through all her videos posted here on YouTube. In her January 14 episode Liz interviewed CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill following their visit to the Griggs-Midway Building in Saint Paul. Dr. Oz cites the devastating report prepared by Minnesota’s non-partisan Office of Legislative Auditor under the auspices of Judy Randall (“during the course of our audit, we identified a number of documents that [Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration] either backdated or created after our audit began”).
