Vice President JD Vance is now calling on Assistant U.S. Attorney General Colin McDonald to investigate if top Minnesota state officials broke the law in the botched response to the state’s fraud crisis.
It comes after the release of a blistering, 200-plus-page report from a Republican-led U.S. House committee that claims Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and other senior officials failed to act.
Chief among the allegations is that employees “have faced retaliation for raising concerns.” Faye Bernstein, an employee with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, says she was initially ignored when she caught what she calls red flags back in 2019.
“In the normal course of work, we would come across things that we would call fraud,” Bernstein said.
But it then led to a human resources investigation and loss of responsibilities after she persistently brought up…
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