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Minnesota Fraud Investigation: Only Six of 500 Autism Centers Applied for License

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Image of a speaker addressing an audience with American flags in the background, alongside the logo of Smart Therapy Center, LLC featuring colorful puzzle pieces and hands.Most of the fraud uncovered in Minnesota has taken place since Tim Walz became governor. Democrats wanted him to be our vice president.

Billions of dollars of fraud occurred under Tim Walz’s watch, and now it turns out that autism centers did not even require licensing and that state officials were not allowed to conduct unannounced inspections.

The question now is whether Tim and other Minnesota officials were simply ignorant of what was happening, or whether they actively supported, enabled, or even participated in this fraud of epic proportions.

Money tied to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program surged from about $1.7 million in Medicaid reimbursements in 2017 to nearly $229 million in 2024 through late November, with cumulative spending approaching $700 million. That amounts to roughly a 300-fold increase in less than a decade, or about a 30,000 percent rise. While officials cite expanded autism diagnoses and broader access to services, the scale and speed of the increase have raised serious concerns.

Critics argue that a significant portion of this explosion in spending reflects fraud and lax oversight, noting that the growth occurred under Democratic governors. They contend that unchecked fraud drives long-term spending obligations higher, ultimately pressuring the state to raise taxes.

The figures come from Minnesota Department of Human Services data reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune following FBI raids on multiple autism centers as part of investigations into alleged large-scale fraud schemes.

The investigation overlapped with the Feeding Our Future case, in which 70 people were charged with defrauding a federal child nutrition program, and at least a dozen defendants were connected to autism centers.

Prosecutors allege that some parents received kickbacks, which became central to the scandal. Companies such as Smart Therapy LLC in Minneapolis and Star Autism Center in St. Cloud were accused of paying parents between $300 and $1,500 per month in cash to enroll their children.

In exchange, centers billed Medicaid for more than 40 hours per week of one-on-one therapy that was either not provided or performed by untrained 18-year-old relatives with no background in autism care. Authorities also allege widespread billing for “ghost” services, including therapy sessions that never occurred or for implausible numbers of hours.

In the Smart Therapy case, owner Asha Farhan Hassan pleaded guilty in December 2025 to a $14 million autism fraud scheme, admitting to using unqualified high school graduates as behavioral technicians and billing for maximum allowable hours even when no care was provided.

A state-commissioned Optum report later flagged 90% of the claims reviewed as problematic, including those from companies lacking basic operational details such as phone numbers or websites.

The latest development centers on licensing. Before the scandal, Minnesota did not require autism centers to hold a specific state license; providers only had to enroll as Medicaid providers. Under Minnesota Statute 256B.0949, individuals could serve as Level III providers with minimal qualifications: being 18 years old, holding a high school diploma or GED or fluency in a non-English language, completing brief online training modules, and being hired by an enrolled agency.

Lawmakers raised concerns that oversight relied on Qualified Supervising Professionals, but investigations revealed that supervision sometimes existed only on paper. Level III workers were allegedly left alone with children or were relatives billing Medicaid for time spent providing little or no therapeutic services.

After the Feeding Our Future scandal, Gov. Tim Walz and the Department of Human Services identified 14 Medicaid service categories as high risk due to explosive spending growth. Of those 14 programs, six still do not require licensing, a gap lawmakers say made fraud easier to commit. And yet, prior to DHS designating EIDBI as high risk, the state was not legally permitted to conduct unannounced site visits at roughly 500 autism centers statewide.

Now that licensing is required, committee members have expressed frustration over the slow pace of compliance. Of more than 500 previously unlicensed centers, only six have applied ahead of the May 31 deadline.

So far, it does not appear that Tim Walz has been implicated. However, one has to ask how such rampant fraud could be occurring under his nose and expanding at exponential rates under his watch without him knowing. Furthermore, while the state claims to have launched investigations, the lid was blown off this mountain of fraud by content creator Nick Shirley when he uncovered billions in daycare fraud, which brought national attention to the rest of it.

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Jimmys Strikes Again! Baltimore Seafood Joint Ratios Baltimore Sun and New York Times with “Go F*ck Yourself” Comment after Anti-America Social Media Posts – Baltimore Sun Issues Pathetic Response (VIDEO)

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Baltimore seafood restaurant Jimmy’s Famous Seafood is going viral once again after nuking the New York Times and the local Baltimore Sun for their biased reporting on the Team USA Men’s Olympic hockey team’s victory. 

This comes after Jimmy’s offered a viral response to the Huff Post’s reporting on the Olympic games and the psychological terror you should feel, rooting for your country while Trump is in office. “Go f*ck yourself,” the restaurant wrote on Sunday following Team USA’s historic win, gaining the restaurant national spotlight for speaking on behalf of Americans who love their country.

The New York Times apparently didn’t get the memo, claiming in an editorial that the team won the gold medal but “lost the room” when they took a congratulatory call from the President of the United States and decided to celebrate their win at the White House.

“It’s a costly image. What they’ve lost won’t appear in a record book, and in a few years, the appearance will be a faint memory to most. But during a time in which every action seems consequential, they handed over the power of unity. Their triumph is now attached to Trump. His track record suggests it won’t be used to celebrate everyone. It is more likely to be framed as dominance than shared aspiration,” Times Athletic columnist Jerry Brewer wrote of Team USA’s visit to the White House and attendance at Trump’s State of the Union speech.

Jimmy’s Famous Seafood took to the comment section with another “go f*ck yourself” post.

Two days later, in the reader commentary section published by the Baltimore Sun, one reader expressed condemnation for Jimmy’s Famous Seafood for using “foul language” against the anti-American propagandists in the media.

Hilariously, the reader says she has an issue with Jimmy’s language and the nationwide support, writing, “I am a 69-year-old female who was told by a younger male on Tuesday morning to ‘go f*** yourself’ simply because I asked him to slow down on our neighborhood road.” She goes on to describe how she berated the driver for going six miles per hour over the speed limit before he responded, “f*ck you” and “go f*ck yourself.”

“I see now why he thought it was totally OK to tell that to an older woman trying to get cans out of the roadway,” she writes, blaming Jimmy’s for her dispute with a random person.

Jimmy’s responded to the Karen with its now-famous three-word response: “Go f*ck yourself.”

Caleb Townsend of the Baltimore Sun later issued the paper’s pathetic rebuttal outside of the restaurant, which he was ostensibly not allowed into, whining about the restaurant’s rhetoric. Townsend pleads with the restaurant to give him “a thoughtful dialogue, a good conversation, one free from profanity.”

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Hi, I’m Caleb Townsend with the Baltimore Sun, and today, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood told us to go f*ck ourselves. Here’s how it happened. Jimmy’s loves the Olympics, and they love America, some people might argue too much, like the Huffington Post. They recently wrote an article about the complex feelings that some Americans have expressing patriotism in a time where people feel it’s hard to be patriotic. Jimmy’s Famous Seafood responded thoughtfully and tactfully. Just kidding. Then, we at the Baltimore Sun published a letter that a reader wrote to us. The article, entitled “Foul Language is Never Helpful,” was published on our website. Surely, Jimmy would respond thoughtfully, and– Oh, they didn’t? Oh, they said it again? Well, Jimmy, if you’re seeing this, I want to have a thoughtful dialogue, a good conversation, one free from profanity, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this. Your move, crab man.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Jimmy’s response to the Huffington Post on Sunday after the far-left rag trashed the Team USA Olympic hockey team and Americans who celebrated their victory.

“If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone,” the paper wrote on X, sharing an article about how Americans would be right to feel “national shame.”

And Jimmy’s responded with an absolute gem, telling the paper to “go f*ck yourself” in a comment that received over 17 million views and 100 times more likes than HuffPost’s original tweet.

GO WOKE, GET ROASTED: Family-Owned American Business TORCHES Fake News HuffPost — Tells Them to “Go F*** Yourself” After Outlet Suggests Pride in Team USA Hockey Win Is a “Clinical Disorder”

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Urges Embassy Staff to Leave “TODAY”

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Via U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has urged staffers at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to leave today.

In an email sent out to staff at the U.S. embassy, Huckabee wrote, “Those wishing to take AD (Authorized Departure) should do so TODAY.”

Huckabee further wrote, “While there may be outbound flights over the coming days, there may not be.”

The Ambassador’s announcement comes as tension with Iran has increased in recent weeks, as the U.S. military has built up its largest force of warships and aircraft in the Middle East since the Iraq War.

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The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem implemented “authorized departure” status for non-essential personnel and family members, which means that eligible staffers can leave the country voluntarily at government expense.

The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately.

In an email U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee urged staff considering departure to do so quickly, advising them to to focus initially on getting any flight out of Israel and to then make their way to Washington.

“Those wishing to take AD should do so TODAY,” Huckabee wrote, using an acronym for “authorized departure.”

Huckabee’s statement came shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he is scheduled to visit Israel on Monday regarding matters relating to Iran and the 20-Point Peace Plan for Gaza.

The U.S. Embassy is not the only embassy calling for its citizens to depart the region.

Reuters reported that China, on Friday, urged its citizens in Iran to evacuate immediately, citing escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.

Vice President JD Vance, on Thursday, told The Washington Post on the topic of potential armed conflict with Iran, shared, “I think we all prefer the diplomatic option, but it really depends on what the Iranians do and what they say.”

Last Thursday, President Trump threatened to escalate military tensions with Iran within the next ten days if they don’t make a deal regarding deconstructing their nuclear enrichment program.

The 10-day warning Trump gave will end on March 1.

READ:

(VIDEO) Trump Threatens Iran if They Don’t Make a Deal – “You’re Going to be Finding Out in the Next 10 Days… Bad Things Will Happen if it Doesn’t”

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Pro-Trump Attorneys Reportedly In Talks With White House to Get Trump to Declare National Emergency Giving Him ‘Sweeping Powers’ Over Elections – Team Trump Responds

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Pro-Trump lawyers are reportedly trying to persuade President Trump and his team to go all-out to secure America’s elections this year by invoking an unprecedented executive order, and they may soon get their wish.

As The Daily Mail reported, attorneys with ties to Trump are talking with the White House over an election plan, citing “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

From The Daily Mail:

Attorneys close to Donald Trump are urging the President to declare a national emergency that would allow him to take sweeping powers over the crucial midterm elections.

Peter Ticktin, who has known Trump since they attended New York Military Academy together and represented him in court, is part of a group of pro-Trump lawyers in communication with the White House over the election plan.

He and his allies argue in a 17-page draft of a presidential executive order that supposed Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election allows Trump to declare such an emergency.

‘There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified,’ the draft reads. ‘This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.’

As The Mail notes, this order would allow President Trump to mandate voter ID nationwide, ban vote-by-mail, and require ballots to be counted by hand.

ABC News reports that Trump has reviewed the order, and the lawyers expect executive action soon.

This news also comes as the SAVE Act, a critical election security bill Trump is backing, has stalled in the Senate thanks to a handful of RINOS sabotaging the MAGA movement in its quest to stop Democrats from stealing any more federal elections.

A White House official responded to the report about an election executive order, telling ABC that “a variety of outside advocates who want to share their policy ideas with the President. Any speculation about policies the President may or may not announce is just that — speculation.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson also issued a non-denial when asked for comment.

“President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters,” Jackson told The Washington Post.

“The President has urged Congress to pass the SAVE Act and other legislative proposals that would establish a uniform standard of photo ID for voting, prohibit no-excuse mail-in voting, and end the practice of ballot harvesting,” she added.

One question that remains unanswered is how such an order can survive legal challenges. Changes to voting laws have generally been implemented via the legislative process.

One exception to this rule was during COVID, when states ignored their own constitutions to push mass mail-in voting via executive action in some cases.

But Ticktin remains undeterred, citing the critical moment our nation faces.

“We have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin explained to The Washington Post. “That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

“That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it.”

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