{"id":90069,"date":"2025-12-19T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90069"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:35:22","slug":"not-a-math-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90069","title":{"rendered":"Not A Math Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 HOLY SMOKES: The Assistant U.S. Attorney investigating the Somali fraud in Minnesota says as much as $18 billion could have been stolen from the taxpayers.<br><br>He compares it to an iceberg&#8211; &quot;much larger than visible to the public.&quot;<br><br>All of this happened on Tim Walz&#39;s watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqE0xRGXBl\">pic.twitter.com\/oqE0xRGXBl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CJ Pearson (@Cjpearson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cjpearson\/status\/2001745736363307428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>$18 billion in potential fraud since 2018 &#8211; and he&#8217;s fairly confident at least half of it isn&#8217;t hypothetical at all. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s likely the minimum is nine billion billion dollars &#8211; among <em>14<\/em>\u00a0<em>Medicare\/Medicaid programs alone<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Put another way &#8211; the\u00a0<em>entire ruinous projected six billion dollar deficit\u00a0<\/em>projected by the end of the decade, and half of another, all defrauded from the state and nation&#8217;s taxpayers in the past seven years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want Walz to step down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I want him to get hauled out of the Capitol kicking and screaming by FBI agents. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I want to be there videotaping the whole thing. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That moment when you realize it&#8217;s not an &#8220;M&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a &#8220;B&#8221;.   And a LOT of zeroes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069","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=90069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90071,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069\/revisions\/90071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}