In the latest episode of The Patriot Perspective, host Gregory Lyakhov examined what may be one of the most staggering government failures in modern American history: more than $9 billion in fraud tied to Minnesota’s public programs, much of it involving networks operating within the state’s Somali community.
The number alone is shocking.
Yet what matters more than assigning vague political blame is understanding how such an enormous collapse occurred—and why it was entirely predictable.
One point must be made clearly at the outset. Whether Minnesota’s governor or individual politicians were directly complicit remains unclear.
Proving intent or personal involvement requires evidence that investigators are still uncovering. But the absence of proven complicity does not mean the absence of responsibility.
What is clear is that Minnesota built a system structurally incapable of preventing fraud, and that system was shaped by aggressive DEI hiring and governance policies.
For years, Minnesota’s Health and Human Services division—the very agency responsible for detecting and preventing fraud—prioritized DEI “health equity” and hiring initiatives over core oversight functions.
Entire offices were reshaped around racial and identity-based frameworks rather than technical competence, auditing experience, or enforcement capacity.
The result was not inclusion; it was institutional blindness.
Hellbound and Down 