Former Minnesota Investigator: State Government ‘Harassed, Bullied’ Department in Alleged Coverup of Child Care Fraud Allegations

An ex-Minnesota state trooper and former investigator in the Office of Inspector General for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services testified this week that state officials tried to get him to delete findings from a child care fraud report and later tried to shut down his department after “members of our unit were harassed and bullied by DHS officials.”

“I regularly joined with various investigators and agents as we interviewed the owners and employees of the child care centers being investigated,” Jay Swanson — who worked as a criminal investigator for the Services Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) under Minnesota’s DHS — testified.

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“More than once, I heard an owner or employee respond when we asked where they first learned about the daycare scam,” Swanson continued. “They would say they had first heard about it while in the refugee camp in Kenya.”

“These individuals told us that they had