Trump Cabinet official calls on Walz to resign over massive fraud scandal in scathing letter: 'Shame on you'
FIRST ON FOX: In a letter sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Trump's education secretary blasted his handling of the massive and developing fraud crisis in the state...
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FIRST ON FOX: In a letter sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Trump's education secretary blasted his handling of the massive and developing fraud crisis in the state and called on him to resign from his post over the scandal while highlighting fraud allegations within the state's college education system. "You have been Minnesota’s Governor since 2019," Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote to Walz in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. "During that time, your careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country. As President Trump put it, you have turned Minnesota into a ‘fraudulent hub of money laundering activity.’" At the conclusion of the scathing letter, McMahon calls on Walz to step down over the scandal. INSIDE MINNESOTA’S $1B FRAUD: FAKE OFFICES, PHONY FIRMS AND A SCANDAL HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT "Given your dereliction of the office entrusted to you by Minnesotans, I implore you to resign and make way for more capable leadership," McMahon writes. In addition to the fraud scandal that has garnered national headlines with nonprofits like Feeding Our Future, primarily in the Somali community, alleged to have defrauded taxpayers of at least $1 billion under Walz’s watch, McMahon’s letter focuses on findings from her department that show fraud taking place in Minnesota’s college education system. Last week, Fox News Digital reported the Department of Education announcement that it has thwarted more than $1 billion in student aid fraud under Trump’s first year in office, including stopping suspected bots and "ghost students" from obtaining taxpayer-funded loans. One of the "ghost students" schemes that allegedly took place in Minnesota left Riverland Community College averaging more than 100 potentially fraudulent applications per year, Fox News Digital reported. In the letter to Walz, McMahon focused on the potential…