A former Minnesota investigator alleges state officials illegally blocked his child care fraud investigation and ordered him to delete documents.

A former Minnesota state trooper told lawmakers this week that his superiors at the state’s Department of Human Services pressured

"As I look back, I realized that what our team saw was the early stages of a somewhat loosely organized criminal enterprise."

A massive federal crackdown on Somali-run welfare centers in Minnesota has sparked a sharp public exchange between Vice President JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security executed multiple raids,

Federal agents executed search warrants at about 20 childcare centers in Minneapolis as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected fraud, with no arrests reported.

Federal agents have served search warrants in Minnesota in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children.

Jay Swanson, a former investigator for Minnesota's Department of Human Services, testifies that a senior government official instructed him to delete specific sections of a report on child care fraud in the state.

A massive federal dragnet descended upon the Minneapolis metropolitan area Tuesday morning as the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and local law enforcement executed 22 coordinated search warrants.