Act 3 of 5

Kept Buried

The auditor could not substantiate, the unit was shut, the money kept moving

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Source: FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul · original. Hosted copy unaltered except as noted on this page; rights remain with the publisher.

The 2019 auditor review could not substantiate the $100 million figure and could not substantiate terrorist use. It also found the controls insufficient and the investigators alienated from their own inspector general. The unit was shut. In 2021 a Ramsey County judge held the Department of Education in contempt for slow-walking applications; he did not order payments resumed, but the payments resumed. In December 2021 the Attorney General was recorded telling operators: let's go fight these people.

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