How it happened, in seven chapters
In the order the committee's chair tells it. Each chapter has a video, the facts in one minute, the committee's own charts, and every record behind it.
Chapter 1 · 2011–2019Daycare Fraud BeginningsAn investigator warned in writing in 2017. In 2019 the unit that was catching the fraud was shut down.
Chapter 2 · 2020–2022UnleashedHow a 2020 waiver law opened the doorPandemic waivers took the guardrails off child nutrition. People from the child-care cases turned their centers into meal sites.
Chapter 3 · 2019–2026One Network, Many SchemesThe same people ran child-care centers, meal sites, group homes and autism clinics, often from the same addresses.
Chapter 4 · 2018–2025The Medicaid ExplosionFourteen Medicaid programs grew from $1.5 billion to $4.3 billion a year. Prosecutors put the fraud at half or more.
Chapter 5 · 2017–2025Warnings IgnoredAuditors, investigators and whistleblowers warned for years. Hearings were discouraged, critics were called racist, and no one was fired.
Chapter 6 · 2022–2026ExposedRaids, a federal claims file, twenty-five committee hearings, Congress, and the Cabinet in St. Cloud: more than a hundred people charged.
Chapter 7 · 2026–What Comes NextAn Inspector General funded only through June 2027. A limitations clock running out. And paid family leave, the next frontier.