A Minnesota whistleblower detailed the “nearly unbearable retaliation” she’s faced after years of attempted reporting, dispelling Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) claims of ignorance to fraud.
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Weeks of stoked agitation and the ongoing harassment of federal immigration officers haven’t diminished the reality that a massive investigation was underway in Minnesota regarding an estimated $9 billion in fraud. While Walz has attempted to thread the needle, avoiding culpability while dropping his re-election campaign, Minnesota Department of Human Services whistleblower Faye Bernstein addressed the “smear campaign” she’s faced, having attempted to alert leaders to the system’s vulnerability to fraud dating back to 2019.
“There is just a continuous effort to stifle you, to shut you up. And it is impossible to overcome,” she told Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on the latest installment of “Saturday in America.”
“I tell you, in my case, it was many, many sleepless nights and many, many very long, sad days trying to save my career and also trying to accomplish something that, it was clear we needed assistance with,” said Bernstein who described the “nearly unbearable retaliation” that had included her being “trespassed from all DHS-owned or leased property” and investigated “at a great cost to the state.”
“So, for our governor now to say that leadership was not aware, has not been implicated for any wrongdoing, that just seems crazy to me. I can say myself that the people you just listed off: leadership, human resources, internal audits and the commissioner, those are all people that I have notified numerous times,” expressed the whistleblower whose letter described her being the victim of a “smear campaign” that labeled her “racist.”
“It’s been sometimes just downright embarrassing to go on and on about this,” she added before saying feigned ignorance of fraud by Walz and others, “is absolutely false.”
Amid her efforts that she described as “absolute career suicide,” Bernstein described the response to notifying the governor’s office and oversight bodies, saying, “It was that I was, in fact, the bad employee.”
As previously reported, Bernstein had told journalist Ryan Thorpe that all the contracts were “funneled” through her and she saw how easy it would have been “to give a contract to a family member or to a nonexistent person.”
She’d even provided an example of a contract to a former employee who’d left the department within the year, “Until only about a year ago, our whistleblower policy required us to report internally; that did not comply with the law. The only reason was so that they could find out who was reporting.”
Life-long Dem who works for state spills the beans on Minnesota fraud: ‘This is real’ https://t.co/IOR1VIRGP0 via @BIZPACReview
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“I see this every day … and it is not make-believe. And as far as my being a Democrat, right now, we have to have a governor who is willing to tackle this,” Bernstein said as she extricated her concerns from partisan politics. “And it doesn’t matter if they are Republican or a Democrat.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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