Now playing: US House OGR Part I

Source: GOP Oversight (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) · original. Hosted copy unaltered except as noted on this page; rights remain with the publisher.

Events

The outline. Not the list of who was charged, convicted or settled; that list is the floor, and it lives under Weak Prosecutions.

  1. FOX 9's first daycare-subsidy investigation (Deqo / Yasmin Ali) Act 1
  2. Fired Hennepin investigator Halicki: they want a fraud unit on paper Act 1
  3. Inspector general and deputy retire; support for the CCAP unit drops Act 3
  4. Stillman emails DHS supervisors: hundreds of millions, overseas Act 2
  5. FOX 9 airport series: suitcase cash, $14M (2015), $84M (2016) Act 2
  6. Stillman testifies to the Senate HHS Reform committee Act 2
  7. Swanson email to IG Ham: at least 50% of $217M. Told to delete paragraphs. Act 2
  8. OLA: could not substantiate $100M; investigators agreed on scale Act 3
  9. OLA: controls insufficient to prevent, detect, investigate Act 3
  10. Stipulated order, FOF v. MDE Act 3
  11. Guthmann holds MDE in contempt; stop-pay TRO denied as moot Act 3
  12. DHS gives Abukar the Outstanding Refugee award Act 3
  13. Ellison recorded: let's go fight these people (D1-710) Act 3
  14. FBI raids Act 4
  15. Judicial Branch: Guthmann never ordered payments resumed; Walz's claim 'false' Act 3
  16. Glahn publishes the tape Act 3
  17. Housing Stabilization Services ends Act 1
  18. Thompson reads the claims file: half or more Act 4
  19. Walz calls the estimate 'sensationalized' Act 4
  20. US House Oversight, Part I Act 4
  21. Thompson and five senior prosecutors resign Act 5
  22. House Judiciary subcommittee; MN House Fraud Committee first hearing Act 4
  23. Rosen: pace will increase, no timeline Act 5
  24. US House Oversight, Part II: Walz and Ellison Act 4
  25. MN House Fraud Committee: Stillman returns Act 4
  26. Swanson to the MN House: destroy the unit. Same day as child-care raids. Act 2
  27. Bock sentenced to 500 months; 15-defendant Medicaid takedown Act 5
  28. DHS revalidation: 61% of high-risk providers disenrolled Act 4
  29. House Energy & Commerce hearing with MN DHS Commissioner Connolly Act 4
  30. Partners in Nutrition settles for $18.5M Act 5

2018, the week the file became public

CCAP, not the meal program. The meal case is 2020 to 2022.

  1. Baillon, Deqo / Yasmin Ali primary

    First FOX 9 daycare-subsidy investigation. Ali charged, fled.

  2. Halicki to Baillon primary

    Fired Hennepin investigator: they want a fraud unit on paper.

  3. Carry-on cash documented primary

    Investigators documented $14 million leaving MSP in carry-on.

  4. Carry-on cash primary

    FOX 9: $84 million.

  5. Stillman emails DHS primary

    Overwhelmed by organized-crime cases, hundreds of millions, overseas, entities known to fund terrorism.

  6. Support for the unit drops primary

    Swanson: after the IG and deputy retired, late 2016 / early 2017, the goal became to destroy the unit.

  7. FOX 9 airport series primary

    Five-month investigation. Sources: more than $100 million in cash left MSP the prior year, Middle East and beyond. Kerns: sources said it was welfare fraud, daycare. OLA quotes the $100 million-a-year line and the terrorist-diversion claim.

  8. Stillman, Senate primary

    $100 million said; media at 50 percent; investigators at 70 to 80. Organized crime, lack of controls. Asks for a federal investigation of DHS.

  9. MPR on Lanterman primary

    2016 defamation settlement. State paid $65,000. Stillman apologized for false statements about a competitor.

  10. Swanson email primary

    At least 50 percent of $217 million paid to centers in 2017. Told to delete paragraphs. Refused. Said the order was illegal.

  11. OLA subpoena hearing primary

    OLA subpoenaed Stillman after he did not respond. Report follows 13 March 2019.

  12. OLA report primary

    Could not substantiate $100 million or terrorist use. Investigators generally agreed with Stillman on scale. Proven cases $5–6 million.