GREGG JARRETT: If Walz is charged in Minnesota fraud scandal, his best defense is incompetence

"I hereby plead incompetence and stupidity."

That’s astir apt the champion defence that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tin connection if helium is criminally charged successful the shocking multi-billion-dollar payer ripoffs that turn larger by the day.

Given his earned reputation, his excuse of incompetence would beryllium credible.

Nearly each societal work programme receiving national dollars was fleeced by fraudsters close nether Walz’s nose, including kid nutrition, daycare, healthcare, housing, and autism aid. Most of the perpetrators were Somalians who comprise a almighty voting artifact that the politician treasures similar gold.

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Walz was repeatedly warned of the swindles arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2019 erstwhile helium archetypal took office. Instead of stopping the scams and prosecuting the grifters, helium indulged them by establishing a civilization of permissible fraud.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has said "Minnesota is simply a prosperous state, a well-run state." (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

The ungraded has already claimed Walz’s governmental career, forcing him to wantonness his bid for re-election. But if helium reckoned that quitting would someway shield him from ineligible culpability, helium is mistaken. There is mounting grounds that Walz was willfully complicit, deliberately refusing to exposure oregon prosecute the monumental thefts and, instead, launching assertive measures to scuttle immoderate ineligible scrutiny and transgression consequence.  

The governor’s ain authorities workers astatine the Department of Human Services issued a blistering connection blaming him arsenic 100% responsible. Witnesses accidental helium retaliated against whistleblowers and schemed to discredit the well-documented fraud reports.

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If true, Walz’s aberrant actions tally dangerously adjacent to transgression behaviour involving cover-ups and obstruction.  

Nine national agencies, including the FBI, are present moving to unravel the afloat breadth and extent of the colossal cons.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent scores of investigators and lawyers to Minnesota to prosecute the web of fraud and deceit.

They volition inevitably measurement whether Walz should look transgression charges himself.

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Possible Federal Charges

There are respective national statutes to consider. 18 USC 371 makes it a transgression to conspire with others to defraud the government. At present, determination is nary known grounds that Walz straight participated successful the scams themselves oregon accepted money.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 21: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks connected signifier during the 3rd time of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center connected August 21, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois. Delegates, politicians, and Democratic Party supporters are successful Chicago for the convention, concluding with existent Vice President Kamala Harris accepting her party's statesmanlike nomination. The DNC takes spot from August 19-22.  (Getty)

However, if helium plotted to screen up the fraud by impairing, obstructing oregon defeating efforts to bring the fraudsters to justice, the conspiracy statute is applicable. So, too, are the assorted obstruction of justness laws.

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There is besides 18 USC 2, the aiding and abetting statute wherever accomplices are treated the aforesaid arsenic the main perpetrators. That instrumentality gave emergence to the "willful blindness doctrine" recognized by our courts.

An illustration is simply a businessman who intentionally ignores oregon turns a unsighted oculus to his partner’s wealth laundering, resulting successful charges against both. Similarly, a nationalist authoritative specified arsenic Walz tin beryllium indicted for deliberate inaction wherever helium has a wide work to act.

Finally, 18 USC 3 is applicable whenever concealment occurs. Whoever knows that a transgression has been committed but "hinders apprehension, proceedings oregon punishment," is blameworthy of accessory aft the fact. That bears a striking resemblance to what Walz is accused of doing.

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All of this invites the question of the governor’s motive. If not money, however did helium basal to payment by suppressing the avalanche of fraud? That’s the casual part. Votes.

Walz, unneurotic with wide elites and their media handmaidens, person agelong dismissed the rumors and reports of Somali-engineered fraud arsenic "racist." Apparently, successful Minnesota it is politically incorrect to enforce the instrumentality against immigrants from that peculiar East African country. It’s conscionable not fashionable.

God forbid that putting criminals down bars mightiness suffer electoral support. It’s chic to crook the different cheek.

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So, the Somalian fraudsters were talented a "get-out-of-jail" escaped card, courtesy of the politician and his cronies. Walz, successful turn, secured their votes. It was a nifty quid pro quo, but with an alternate currency —votes. As extortion rackets go, it was slick.   

That cozy statement is manifested successful a precocious uncovered audio signaling of a 2021 speech betwixt Walz’s Attorney General Keith Ellison and Somali hustlers who were soon aft convicted of scamming millions of dollars. They were heard leaning hard connected the AG to "protect" them successful speech for enactment and run donations.  

Ellison eagerly capitulated but present denies immoderate wrongdoing. He returned the cash.           

Walz’s Incompetence Defense

It is excessively aboriginal to cognize whether a transgression lawsuit volition beryllium filed against Minnesota’s beleaguered governor. The U.S. Attorney and DOJ lawyers are inactive digging done the mountains of evidence.

However, arsenic noted above, the lone tenable defence Walz whitethorn beryllium capable to conjure up is incompetence and stupidity. It is thing that jurors mightiness readily accept.

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After all, ineptitude became the governor’s calling card. He infamously conceded his ain buffoonery successful the 2024 Vice Presidential statement erstwhile helium called himself a "knucklehead." He was specified a gaffe mill that the Kamala Harris run squirreled him distant from the media.     

Walz achieved the impossible. He made his moving mate look similar a genius. His bizarre on-stage antics were changeless fodder for mockery. Baffling verbal goofs, specified arsenic boasting that helium had "become friends with schoolhouse shooters," near voters scratching their heads oregon snickering.  

A bid of demonstrable lies astir his subject work and his peculiar treks to China lone compounded the content of a antheral who is either a serial fabricator oregon not close successful the head. Maybe some are true.  

And who tin hide his epic bungling of the George Floyd riots successful 2020. He radicalized the tragic death, thereby ginning up the ensuing violence. As Minneapolis burned, Walz dithered. Afterwards, helium blamed the looting and torched buildings connected systemic racism.

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So, it’s not a agelong to ideate that an indictment alleging Walz was wittingly complicit successful his state’s monolithic payment fraud ungraded mightiness beryllium met with a defence of "misfeasance" (careless oregon incompetent execution of a lawful duty) to combat the incriminating grounds of "malfeasance" (a deliberate, unlawful act).   

It’s a favoritism that tin mean the quality betwixt condemnation and acquittal.

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Should Walz find himself successful the dock sometime soon… don’t beryllium amazed if helium portrays himself arsenic a blockhead who was intellectually incapable of grasping the obvious.

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