Six new people have been charged with defrauding child nutrition, autism, and housing stability programs in Minnesota. "What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It's a staggering industrial scale fraud," said Joe Thompson, First Assistant U.S. Attorney. The state has identified 14 programs as "high risk," costing taxpayers $18 billion since 2018. Thompson noted that a significant portion of this amount could be fraudulent, estimating that it might be half or mor