{"id":89823,"date":"2025-08-04T05:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89823"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:31:58","slug":"chicago-on-the-mississippi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89823","title":{"rendered":"Chicago On The Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>The news broke last week &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/dhs-shuts-down-fraud-ridden-hss-program\/\">Department of Human Services tanked its &#8220;Housing Stabilization Services&#8221; program<\/a> <em>before <\/em>the Feds could start digging into it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that there&#8217;s not gonna be some digging anyway.\u00a0 Joe Thompson, the acting US Attorney for Minnesota, is finding a prosecutorial &#8220;targret rich environment&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We welcome today\u2019s news. Fraud has been eating away at Minnesota\u2019s public programs for years, costing taxpayers billions. Ending the Housing Stabilization Services program cuts off a major source of abuse, but this is just the beginning. The fight against fraud continues, and a broader reckoning is long overdue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8221; your ELCU-haired sister in law might exclaim, &#8220;they&#8217;re\u00a0<em>taking housing from people<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, not really.\u00a0 Bill Glahn explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t be confused. HSS doesn\u2019t provide actual housing or anything else that would be considered useful. Instead, the program, operated by the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS), offers counseling services to Medicaid program participants.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it doesn\u2019t do that either, as Thompson has <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/u-s-attorney-says-minnesota-government-fraud-could-exceed-1-billion\/\">documented<\/a>. The \u201cvast majority\u201d of the $100 million in annual spending (of taxpayer funds) goes to outright fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Today, state DHS took the correct step to shut down the program entirely, you can read their letter to the U.S. Medicaid office <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/dhs\/assets\/intent-to-terminate-housing-stabilization-services-benefit_tcm1053-700518.pdf\">here<\/a>. The Minnesota <em>Star Tribune<\/em> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/public-safety-and-emergencies\/health-and-safety-alerts\/minnesota-moves-to-terminate-housing-program-amid-fbi-fraud-investigation\/ar-AA1JKqyB?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">report<\/a> on this major development,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Vast majority&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a skim of fthe top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not 10% for the big guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vast.\u00a0 Majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Trump does nothing else in office, turning a firehose on the State of Minnesota will make this next 3.5 years a wonderful thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news broke last week &#8211; the Department of Human Services tanked its &#8220;Housing Stabilization Services&#8221; program before the Feds could start digging into it. Not that there&#8217;s not gonna be some digging anyway.\u00a0 Joe Thompson, the acting US Attorney for Minnesota, is finding a prosecutorial &#8220;targret rich environment&#8221;: We welcome today\u2019s news. Fraud has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89823\/revisions\/89824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}