Bill Glahn

“There isn’t a regulatory mindset under the Walz administration. There isn’t the mindset that we need to trust but verify.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn argued that the Walz administration lacks a regulatory mindset and does not verify providers.

“This is two scandals in one,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn described the criminal complaint against Salman Ahmed Elmi as encompassing both Medicaid fraud and commercial sex operations.

“I'm not sure if there's a real underlying driver in the demographics or the demand for these facilities, but it's odd that we have these assisted living facilities linked to Medicaid fraud, at the same time, the Minnesota Department of Health is approving more than one a day. More than one new facility gets approved every single day, 365 days a year. And I don't think anybody is really giving any thought to, hey, maybe some of this is not on the up and up.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn questioned why the Minnesota Department of Health is approving more than one new assisted-living facility per day while facilities are linked to Medicaid fraud.

“You have a commercial sex operation, actual brothels, housed in what were later licensed as assisted-living facilities under the Medicaid program.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn said that brothels were housed in facilities later licensed as assisted-living facilities under the Medicaid program.

“I don't know why we couldn't implement this stuff today. She's called for a top-to-bottom audit of state government. She's got another few data points that perhaps were legislative proposals that didn't get passed. Tim Walz could call a special session. We could be in session on Monday, passing an anti-fraud agenda, but there's nothing. So I guess he just fundamentally doesn't have an interest in the subject.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn questioned why Klobuchar's anti-fraud proposals could not be implemented immediately and said Walz could call a special session.

“It’s the same people doing the same thing, and that culture has never changed.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn said the same personnel remain in place and the culture has not changed under the Walz administration.

“Amy Klobuchar has come out with her multi-point plan of how she's gonna fight fraud once she gets in office, if she gets elected in November,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn noted that Amy Klobuchar has released a multi-point anti-fraud plan tied to her gubernatorial campaign.

“Elmi’s case alone makes clear that this is not old news,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn cited the Elmi case as evidence that Minnesota's fraud scandal is not old news.

“Walz has never cleaned house, he’s never fired anybody for not detecting the fraud or not prosecuting the fraud,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn criticized Gov. Walz for never firing anyone for failing to detect or prosecute the fraud.

“We have something along the order of 2,500 of these licensed across the state, but about 20% of them, around three, 400 of them have just been started in the last year,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn explained that around 20% of Minnesota's roughly 2,500 licensed assisted-living facilities were started in the last year.

“They're just operating as business as usual,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn said state government is operating as business as usual regarding fraud.

“We have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota,”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn told Fox News Digital that fraud in Minnesota has not been stopped despite the scandal costing taxpayers billions.

“We don't have anybody who's currently in office, currently in charge of state government, at least in the executive branch, who's doing anything substantive to address the fraud. It's just amazing how we see these reports every day, and we have Tim Walz traveling the country, traveling elsewhere. He's a lame duck. He doesn't seem to have any interest in closing out this chapter of his legacy with any kind of victory on the fraud front.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn said no one in Minnesota's executive branch is doing anything substantive to address fraud and criticized Tim Walz for not prioritizing the issue.

“This particular fraud was going on just a couple of months ago.”

Bill Glahn · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29

Glahn said the fraud in the Elmi case was ongoing just a couple of months ago.