{"id":74652,"date":"2026-06-09T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/jd-vance-asks-justice-department-to-investigate-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-over-fraud-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:15","slug":"jd-vance-asks-justice-department-to-investigate-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-over-fraud-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/jd-vance-asks-justice-department-to-investigate-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-over-fraud-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance asks justice department to investigate Minnesota governor Tim Walz over fraud allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House report said governor and state attorney general Keith Ellison were aware of \u2018widespread taxpayer fraud\u2019 in social programs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/09\/donald-trump-nithya-raman-los-angeles-la-spencer-pratt-mayor-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US vice-president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jd-vance\">JD Vance<\/a>, asked the Department of Justice to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tim-walz\">Tim Walz<\/a>, his rival in the 2024 election, after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation over fraud schemes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s latest broadside by the federal government against the midwestern state and its political leaders, Vance referred Walz, its Democratic governor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/keith-ellison\">Keith Ellison<\/a>, its Democratic attorney general, for investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/jd-vance-doj-inquiry-tim-walz-minnesota\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House report said governor and state attorney general Keith Ellison were aware of \u2018widespread taxpayer fraud\u2019 in social programs US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US vice-president, JD Vance, asked the Department of Justice to investigate Tim Walz, his rival in the 2024 election, after a congressional report renewed allegations of inaction and retaliation &#8230; <a title=\"JD Vance asks justice department to investigate Minnesota governor Tim Walz over fraud allegations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/jd-vance-asks-justice-department-to-investigate-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-over-fraud-allegations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JD Vance asks justice department to investigate Minnesota governor Tim Walz over fraud allegations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}