Now that the official price tag for the Minnesota frauds has crossed the $10 billion (with a “b”) mark, it’s past time that the elected officials who looked the other way be held accountable.
Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar are all documented as having close ties to the fraudsters, taking meetings with them, taking campaign donations from them, and having other interactions with them, both in private and public.
All three have made public statements claiming to have known about the frauds, during the time the frauds were occurring. But no evidence exists in the public record that any of the three took any actions at the time to stop the frauds.
I’m working to coin the phrase, “at some point, gross incompetence becomes indistinguishable from active sabotage.” While they looked the other way, $10 billion (that we know about) was stolen from taxpayers.
What do we call this collective “looking the other way”? Denial of honest services? Dereliction of duty? Does industrial-scale incompetence, indifference, disinterest, neglect, etc, at any point shade into criminal (in)activity?
Does not have to take action to be corrupt or can inaction be described as corruption. One historic definition of corruption is a synonym to “decay.” By taking no action, just sitting there allowing the state to rot, has someone engaged in corruption?
If a politician accepts campaign donations and votes from a group of fraudsters, and in return, agrees to look the other way, but is not shown as having “personally” benefitted (through cash bribes or favors), is that just A-O-K under the law?
A media round up,
Sky News Australia: Calls grow for Tim Walz to resign over shocking Minnesota fraud scandal
Fox News: Ilhan Omar defends MEALS Act despite ties to massive Minnesota fraud scheme
As the good book teaches,
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption.
