New audit in Walz's backyard exposes massive fraud risk tied to post-George Floyd activism

As Minnesota’s massive fraud problems continue to gain nationwide attention, an audit is now sounding the alarm about potential fraud in a new area in the state related to contracts doled out by the city of Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd.

More than 100 contracts were handed out to community groups as alternatives to policing in 2020 and the lax oversight of those contracts, according to a Minnesota Star-Tribune report, was found by an audit to be susceptible to fraud and favoritism.