From a U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) press release this afternoon, Three Defendants in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme Sentenced to Total of 155 Months’ Imprisonment That works out to just under 13 years in prison, spread across the three defendants. The DOJ...
The fraud in Minnesota higher education
While not part of the supernatural world, “ghost” students in higher education are an issue that needs to be exorcised from Minnesota’s college and university system. Reporting by KSTP found that the threat of these “ghost” students — criminal actors who use...
American Experiment wins national award for fraud coverage
Center of the American Experiment won the 2026 Bob Williams Award for Securing Durable Freedom from the State Policy Network (SPN). The award was announced this week at SPN’s annual meeting in Orland, Florida. SPN recognized American Experiment’s work exposing...
KSTP challenges the $9 billion fraud total (spoiler alert: it’s accurate)
Tom Hauser of KSTP TV ran a story last night questioning the origin and accuracy of the claim that fraud in Minnesota amounts to $9 billion. Among many others, American Experiment is using the $9 billion fraud figure to help explain why 58% of Minnesotans...
How the 2023 trifecta hiked your property taxes
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the latest wave of property tax hikes sweeping across Minnesota — Dakota County, Washington County, Blaine, St. Paul, and Minneapolis. St. Cloud can be added to the list, and others will follow. Why is this happening again...
Bummer, dude! Judge kills funding for Golden Turkey surfing project
A Ramsey County judge ruled that the Minnesota legislature violated the constitution and singled out Anoka County “solely as an act of ‘revenge’ pertaining to a wholly separate matter pertaining to the location of a new jail.” The revenge in this case was...
The habeas denial
Man bites dog. From Alpha News, Federal judge rejects career criminal Cambodian national’s detention appeal Alpha News reports, Federal Judge Paul Magnuson has rejected the detention appeal of a Cambodian national being held for removal from the United States,...
Another Minnesota Program RIDDLED with FRAUD
Yet another Minnesota program is riddled with FRAUD… With Kathryn and Grace out of the office this week on special assignment, we jump right into their interview with Callie Proctor, who discusses her experiences with Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services...
U.S. Education Department ends racial balancing in school discipline
New guidance from the U.S. Department of Education says schools cannot use a student’s race when deciding how to discipline them. The guidance, a “Dear Colleague Letter,” says that “discipline policies must treat students even-handedly and must neither favor...
Failure to register
Diego Perez-Mejia, age 26 of Guatemala, was sentenced to time served (13 months) for his felony conviction for failure to register as a sex offender. The sentence was handed down by district chief Judge Eric Tostrud at the federal courthouse in downtown St....










