HOLY F***! You can't make this up.
Keith Ellison went on camera and claimed his office recovered $90 MILLION from Medicaid fraudsters. Big press release, big headline, big victory lap.
Then KSTP actually checked. They went through court records for months and called his own staff.
What they found? Just over $3 MILLION was actually paid back.
$32 million was ORDERED by judges, but only $3 million actually came back. That's barely 10 cents on the dollar. And Ellison is counting ORDERS and JUDGMENTS as if it's cash in the bank?
His own staffer had to correct him on camera:
Ellison: "This is money that was gotten back from the thieves?"
Staffer: "No. Those are restitution orders and judgments."
That's an $87 MILLION gap between the headline and reality.
Minnesotans are dealing with BILLIONS in fraud - Feeding Our Future, Medicaid, all of it - and they get press releases instead of actual recovery.
This isn't just spin, this is insulting. Taxpayers were robbed blind and the AG's office is inflating numbers to look tough while fraudsters have paid back almost nothing. If you have to fake the numbers to look good, you're not fighting fraud, you're covering it up.
How do you trust an Attorney General whose own numbers don't survive a simple fact-check?
What do YOU thinkg. is this incompetence or intentional inflation?
Ballz Old Pat Kessler was unretired by his Fox 9 Station manager wife to bat cleanup for Amy Klobuchar after she raged for an hour on stage.
This is funny.
HOLY F***! Keith Ellison claimed he recovered $90 MILLION from Medicaid fraudsters. Then KSTP checked with his own staff, and the amount actually recovered was just over $3 MILLION.
That’s a $87 million difference between the claim and the reported recovery.
Minnesotans deserve answers, not inflated numbers and political spin. How do you trust an Attorney General whose own numbers don’t survive a simple fact-check?