House GOP Goes Fishing With Tim Walz COVID Fraud Subpoena
Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce issued a subpoena to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state’s Education Commissioner related to an alleged $250 million pandemic fraud scheme perpetuated by a nonprofit providing school meals to underprivileged children.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the committee’s chair, announced the latest probe into the Democratic vice presidential nominee as congressional Republicans continue to mine the governor’s past decade in Minnesota politics for scandals.
The COVID fraud scandal the House committee is currently probing was first uncovered in 2022, when the Justice Department indicted a total of 70 people for what Attorney General Merrick Garland called “the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme charged to date.” The defendants were charged with counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery.