The Brief
- Legislative Auditor Judy Randall said her office is taking new steps to crackdown on fraud but is limited in what it can do.
- She said the state must use the tools it already has to catch fraud sooner.
- The state’s housing stabilization and autism programs have been recent targets of federal criminal investigations.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – The state’s nonpartisan watchdog said her office is doing what it can to catch fraud, but said the state needs to do more.
Watchdog says state is ‘not stopping what it should be stopping’
Why you should care:
“It’s a big problem. It didn’t just happen overnight, and I don’t think there’s just one place to point,” said Randall. “If we just put in place the internal controls that are already required – that alone is the single biggest thing we could do to help – to help stop the fraud that’s been occurring.”
She said, “You cannot audit your way out of fraud,” and said the state must do more to disincentivize it.,…