Weak oversight of community group contracts awarded after George Floyd’s death created risk of improper payments.
By Catholics for Catholics
A new report shows that Minnesota’s gargantuan fraud tribulations continue to garner nationwide attention, as an audit is now raising concerns about potential scams in a new area in the state related to contracts extended by the city of Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd.
According to a story by Fox News, some community groups received more than 100 contracts as alleged alternatives to policing in 2020. The slipshod supervision of those contracts, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune report, was found by an audit to be inclined to fraud and favoritism.
The new Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report, which reviews spending from 2020-2025, shows the city is “not providing sufficient contract oversight or managing contracts effectively” in order to properly manage the more than $36 million that has been spent since 2023 on five major violence-prevention programs.
“Based on my past reporting on this and other city grant programs, any diligent audit of any city-administered grant programs would produce similar results,” Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn told Fox News Digital, pointing to his 2023 reporting on the matter.
“The city seems primarily interested in shoveling money out the door to ‘address’ urgent problems,” Glahn added. “Little if any care is given to ensuring that the grant recipients are capable of or have a track record of doing the work, are actually doing the work contracted for, or whether that work is resulting in net benefit for city residents and taxpayers.”
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