Minnesota fraud scandals may not be over, as a recent audit found that contracts handed to community groups in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death may not have had proper oversight at all.
The Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report found a stunning lack of oversight in the over 100 contracts awarded to community groups as part of the “violence interrupter program,” pointing to the potential of what Fox News Digital described as “fraud and favoritism.” It shows “the city is ‘not providing sufficient contract oversight or managing contracts effectively’ in order to properly manage the more than $36 million that has been spent since 2023 on five major violence-prevention programs,” per the outlet.
Auditors found weak contract oversight and instances of incomplete invoices that were missing documentation. Despite that, in some cases, the city still doled out the cash. Further, the city had no streamlined process for ensuring that the contractors were actually carrying out the work they claimed they would be doing with the funds…