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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   (NewsNation) — Several staff members within the Minnesota Department of   
   Human Services’ Behavioral Health Administration altered records during a   
   recent audit, according to the state’s legislative auditor.   
      
   The nonpartisan state watchdog identified a “number of documents” that   
   staff either backdated or created after the audit began — a practice   
   Legislative Auditor Judy Randall described as a “systemic effort.”   
      
   “It is frankly unacceptable for the agencies we audit to do this type of   
   activity,” Randall said during a hearing Tuesday. “In the 27-plus years   
   I’ve been with the Office of the Legislative Auditor, I have never seen   
   this before.”   
      
   Randall said the documents were backdated or created in response to   
   auditors’ requests for information, undermining the integrity of the   
   audit’s findings.   
      
   Those findings, outlined in a 70-page report released this week, point to   
   widespread problems with the state’s oversight of taxpayer-funded   
   behavioral health grants.   
      
   The audit found that DHS distributed more than $425 million in grants to   
   830 grantees between July 1, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2024, but failed to   
   adequately monitor those funds.   
      
   Auditors identified issues with progress reports for more than half of the   
   51 grant agreements for which there should have been at least one report.   
   The Behavioral Health Administration paid $2.1 million to seven grantees   
   who never submitted a report and $11.2 million to others with past due   
   reports.   
      
   “Without obtaining and reviewing progress reports, BHA is paying grantees   
   without knowing whether grantees are providing agreed-upon services,” the   
   audit said.   
      
   Auditors also found that behavioral health staff couldn’t prove that they   
   performed more than two dozen required monitoring visits.   
      
   In one instance, auditors found that a grant manager approved a $672,000   
   payment for a single month of work, then left the agency days later and   
   subsequently provided consulting services to the same grantee.   
      
   “The OLA report shows a complete breakdown in how DHS’s Behavioral Health   
   Administration manages hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded grants,”   
   Republican state Sen. Mark Koran said in a news release.   
      
   The audit comes amid heightened scrutinty of Minnesota’s publicly funded   
   programs following recent fraud allegations tied child care centers around   
   the Twin Cities. The Trump adminsitration has launched a federal   
   investigation and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has said he will not seek   
   reelection.   
      
   Temporary DHS Commissioner Shireen Gandhi said she was “shocked” to learn   
   about the document alterations described in the audit and called the   
   conduct “absolutely unacceptable” during this week’s hearing.   
      
   “DHS is swiftly and thoroughly investigating the concerns raised,” Gandhi   
   said.   
      
      
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