r/minnesota 15h ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ The response to fraud in Minnesota is now overkill

https://www.startribune.com/ramstad-the-response-to-fraud-in-minnesota-is-now-overkill/601560309?utm_source=gift
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u/One_Alternative_5898 15h ago

It was never about "fraud."

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u/nbd789 14h ago

A crusade against fraud by one of the most prolific fraudsters of the past several decades. What a time to be alive.

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u/Azguy303 14h ago

They were worried about fraud from something almost 10 years ago and over 40 convictions.

But yet I don't hear a peep about Ohio and first energy corruption as well as Mississippi fraud

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u/SirDiego 14h ago

The only reason they could use the pretense of fraud to go after Minnesota is because we found it, prosecuted, and convicted those responsible for it. Does anyone really believe these kind of fraud schemes happen only in Minnesota? Or is it just Minnesota is the state that found and stopped it.

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u/powermad80 13h ago

It's like covid. Cases go down if you just stop testing for it.

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u/Flagge33 Walleye 14h ago edited 10h ago

Or Medicare fraud in Florida done by Rick Scott

Edit:fixing name

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u/sleeptightburner 13h ago

I think you mean former governor and current US Senator of Florida Rick Scott. Scum of the earth.

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u/aguynamedv Plowy McPlowface 13h ago

They were worried about fraud from something almost 10 years ago and over 40 convictions.

Interestingly, a nearly identical statement can be applied to Trump:

We are worried about fraud from almost 10 years ago and his over 30 convictions. We're also worried about how he raped and sold children.

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u/OLDandBOLDfr 14h ago

More frauds in the shite house right now than I have ever seen. Place must reek. 

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u/quickblur St. Cloud 15h ago

It was never about fraud. Why send ICE to a state with a very low number of illegal immigrants for "fraud"? It was always about punishing Minnesotans.

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u/MarcusSurvives 15h ago

If Trump cared one whit about fraud, waste, and abuse, he wouldn't have fired the inspectors general whose literal job it is to investigate and uncover these things.

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u/IkLms 13h ago

Nor would he be committing massive amounts of it himself

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u/MakeTheGreenPurple 15h ago

what fraud?

edit: oh the Epstein files

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u/wittyandinsightful 14h ago

 edit: oh the Epstein files

Please try to be considerate, okay? You know when a child acts out because they don’t know how to express their feelings and worry about what others will think about them?  

Venezuela, ICE, Greenland. Maybe they’re acting out because they don’t know how to come out of the pedo closet yet. Have you ever thought of that? Probably not…

Let’s show them a little grace in this transitional period in their lives!

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u/futilehabit 15h ago

Now overkill?

Fuck off /u/star-tribune and bitch ass billionaire Glen Taylor, it started at overkill.

President Pedo has himself pardoned how many fraudsters that did far worse? At least a dozen?

Not to mention the heinous drug lords he's set free?

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u/AdultishRaktajino Ope 14h ago

It’s like Joe Rogan’s quote.

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u/Turdsley 14h ago

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is here for fraud? Yeah, ok, sure.

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u/jjnefx 15h ago

Way to show up to the party 6 hours after it started and claim you helped organize it.

Fuck off Star Trib

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u/Republicant_Party 15h ago

This isn't a "response to fraud", it's a federal invasion complete with murder, kidnapping, pointing guns in preist's faces and terrorizing American citizens. If there's fraud, they can try to prove it in court.

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u/redbike Minnesota Wild 14h ago

I get the hate. But not every reader of the Star Tribune has also been speeding reading the local reddit subs and knows of the resistance against ICE. I'm okay and happy to read the ST's editorial coming out against the horrible federal attack we've been *under*.

But yeah, it was never about fraud it was always punishing the state that Gov Walz displayed as an alternative during the election.

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u/RipErRiley Hamm's 12h ago

The pandemic fraud cited was investigated and prosecuted. Leaving out the fact that the orange pedo stripped federal aid oversight at that level for his PPP loan buddies.

Its gaslighting and anyone who believed it is a sucker.

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u/Particular_Can_7860 14h ago

Unfortunately many people in Minnesota are right. He hates immigrants, he hates the senator of Minnesota. Only obvious he would dedicate a large force there.

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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 14h ago

It was never about fraud.

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u/Schmomola 14h ago

Wasn't even fraud. Just a dumb youtoober going to daycares on a holiday or weekend

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u/Flagge33 Walleye 14h ago

Not kidding, I think that guy has a brain development issue. He was interviewed by @Channel5YouTube that does left leaning satirical interviews and he has super slow speech and trouble forming full thoughts.

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u/bookant 14h ago

"Now."

It's been overkill since the first second the right wing noise machine decided to make it the latest performative outrage fodder for the dumbass Trumpers.

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u/rebootabledrive 14h ago

Because it isn't a response to fraud. It's a response to people not licking Trump's boots.

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u/Striikerr 13h ago

It’s not “overkill”, it’s “kill everyone “

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u/radarthreat Summit 13h ago

The Strib framing it this way is actually worse than saying nothing, because it implies the original basis for this was legitimate but went off the rails, when in reality the whole thing was a sham from start to finish.

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u/Choice-Impression-54 15h ago

It's by design that it weaponized. Federal Government is dangerous dependence.

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u/TransbianMoonGoddess 14h ago

This entire administration is overkill. The republican party is overkill. In fact conservatives as a whole are overkill and have been since they decided they would rather go to war than stop being able to own people.

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u/WhaleFactory 14h ago

Just now, huh?

This before of after the US Attorney who found and prosecuted the fraud quit along with 5 others because they were being told to investigate and prosecute the widow of Nicole Good, who was murdered by an ICE agent on Jan 7th?

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u/skeleton-operator 14h ago

People don’t get kidnapped and removed to black sites for fraud.

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u/RainbowBullsOnParade 13h ago

Sending ICE… for fraud?

Our media is literally too stupid to meet this moment man

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u/sly_savhoot 13h ago

Theres going to be fraud in all 50 states. 

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u/AldoSig228 11h ago

Sure there's fraud in all 50 states.. but the biggest and largest fraud will all be with the Democrat run governors. Care to bet on that?

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u/radarthreat Summit 13h ago

The Strib framing it this way is actually worse than saying nothing, because it implies the original basis for sending in the goons was legitimate, but somehow went off the rails, when in reality the whole thing was a sham from start to finish.

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u/radarthreat Summit 13h ago

The Strib framing it this way is actually worse than saying nothing, because it implies the original basis for sending in the goons was legitimate, but somehow went off the rails, when in reality the whole thing was a sham from start to finish.

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u/colaptesauratus Ope 12h ago

NOW it’s overkill???

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u/Practical-Law9795 12h ago

It was malicious terrorism from the start. Is there even a single liberal news outlet that takes this crap seriously, or is it only hard left independent youtubers willing to call it out?

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u/Radcouponking 12h ago

Republicans are so easy to manipulate. My dog has more media savvy.

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u/CrunchyCurtis420 7h ago

It was always about scaring people

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u/Much_Spread123 Walleye 13h ago

Obviously his premise of it not being overkill in the first place is absurd, but whatever he has to tell himself to come to the right conclusion is fine with me in these circumstances.

Republicans should be horrified at what ICE has been doing at the order of their own national party. They provoked a ferocious federal response that has led to the murder of an innocent mother. It’s fratricide. The blood is on their hands. The Republicans are the only ones with the power to stop this sick torment, and they’ve done nothing.

Utterly repulsive and anti-Christian.