Minnesota’s Fresh New Fraud Hell – Ballot Cheating?

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The story of welfare fraud in Minnesota keeps getting bigger. And no one in state government has worked harder and longer trying to sound the alarm about it than state Sen. Steve Drazkowski. He joins The Drill Down to discuss the growing evidence of widespread fraud in his state that may include not only welfare and child care fraud but vote fraud as well. Minn. Gov. Tim Walz, who was the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee in 2024, just abandoned his bid for a third term in the wake of the growing scandal, which exposed potentially billions of dollars in fraud committed mostly by Somalis in the Minneapolis area through fake feeding programs, daycare centers, and other social programs. Reporters have also identified political contributions to many of the state’s most prominent politicians from Somali immigrants who have been implicated and/or prosecuted in the scams.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years.
0:15.0	In fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. Be very prescient Eric Eggers.
0:22.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:31.6	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.5	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down, with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.7	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hey, it's Eric Eggers from The Drill Down. What you're about to hear is an episode that focuses on Minnesota
0:54.8	fraud, the hearings in Washington, D.C. and new revelations in an excellent interview, honestly,
0:59.8	with a state legislature in Minnesota. What you won't hear any discussion of is the shooting
1:05.1	in Minneapolis. That happened actually after we recorded this episode. We're continuing to monitor
1:09.3	that situation, and we'll have more
1:11.2	information for you on that in the coming days. In the meantime, here's this week's Drill Down.
1:16.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer, as you may be able
1:21.3	to surmise from my voice. I'm not Peter Schweitzer. He is out on assignment today. I am Eric
1:27.2	Eggers, the co-host of this program, but I'm very Peter Schweitzer. He is out on assignment today. I am Eric Eggers, the co-host of this program.
1:29.3	But I'm very excited to be bringing you this episode at The Drill Down because, as you know,
1:35.8	if you've been listening to this program for a long time, we've been on this Minnesota fraud
1:40.0	story from the beginning back in 2022 when there was first convictions and charges filed
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