Minneapolis Audit Points to Possible Fraud in Tim Walz's State
Over 100 interrupter contracts. Incomplete invoices still got paid. $6.5 million already alleged gone.
Summary
- Breitbart reports a Minneapolis Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit found weak oversight on more than 100 contracts awarded to community groups in the post-George Floyd 'violence interrupter' program, with Fox News Digital describing the risk as fraud and favoritism.
- Auditors found incomplete invoices missing documentation, cash still paid in some of those cases, and no streamlined check that contractors did the work. The audit said the gaps open the door to fraud, waste, and abuse.
- Retired Navy intelligence officer Phillip C. Parrish noted We Push for Peace took city money while Attorney General Keith Ellison later alleged $6.5 million walked to luxury cars, Vegas, a liquor store, and a car dealership. Two interrupters were charged in a north Minneapolis shootout.
- Budget talks now threaten $2.7 million in interrupter funding. The piece ties the pattern to Minnesota's $250 million Feeding Our Future COVID fraud, in which founder Amy Bach was sentenced to 500 months. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya told Breitbart fraud is the first word she hears from unhappy Minnesotans.
Commentary
A north-side shop dad still mops linoleum after a fryer shift and knows a violence-interrupter contract is supposed to mean a quieter block, not an incomplete invoice that still cleared. He did not pay the levy so a $6.5 million luxury-car file could sit next to a shootout charge.
100-plus contracts. Missing docs, still paid. $2.7 million on the cut line. 500 months on the last big case. The vinyl chair in that City Hall audit room still holds the household that already bought the lock.
Look every working father who still walks that Minneapolis sidewalk after dark in the eye and answer this: if incomplete invoices already got paid, who still owns the next interrupter locker a $6.5 million allegation did not close?
Comments
100-plus contracts. Missing docs. Still paid. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so a city contract still meant a receipt. A Vegas line is not a weather report.
Ellison $6.5 million. Two interrupters charged. Bach 500 months. Print the three.
Allied cities still treat a no-receipt payout as a breach, not outreach.
We Push for Peace. $2.7 million cut talk. Tafoya: fraud first. File the three.
I still smell fryer oil at 2 a.m. I want the next invoice with a site visit.
A paid incomplete invoice is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A $6.5 million allegation next to a shootout charge is a second border around every honest shop.
Breitbart printed the audit, $6.5 million, and 500 months. Argue those nouns.
Hold the receipts. Cut the dark contracts. An interrupter locker is not a souvenir.
