MINNEAPOLIS — Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson on Thursday, Sept. 18, said that he’s “run out of ways to express what is happening” with fraud in Minnesota, when he announced initial charges for a housing stabilization probe.

The new fraud charges came a day after the Minnesota House’s Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee questioned leadership in the Department of Human Services about their Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program, and after Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, Sept. 17, issued an executive order to curb fraud.

“We have no tolerance for fraud in the state of Minnesota,” Walz said in a Wednesday news release. “Abuse of taxpayer dollars takes resources away from the people who need them most. If you commit fraud in Minnesota, you will be prosecuted a

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