“Frozen Funds: Minnesota’s Fraud Machine”

📅 January 1, 2026

As the new year begins, one story refuses to stay buried under holiday headlines: the expanding fraud scandal in Minnesota. What started as questionable spending has now unraveled into indictments, guilty pleas, and a growing web of nonprofits, shell organizations, and state agencies that failed to act while millions in taxpayer dollars vanished.

In this episode, Artie and the full Data & Dissonance panel break down what we know so far, why red flags were ignored, and how systemic negligence allowed fraud to grow unchecked. This isn’t about left versus right — it’s about accountability, oversight, and the cost of silence when institutions protect themselves instead of the people they’re meant to serve.

New year. Same corruption. Bigger questions.

• Minnesota fraud scandal updates
• How oversight failed — repeatedly
• Who benefits when accountability disappears
• Why corruption doesn’t stop on its own
• What this means heading into 2026

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