Mike Garvey

A new scam has just been uncovered in Minnesota Regular homes are being registered as assisted living facilities - In Minnesota assisted living facilities have seen 2x the growth of other programs - They are receiving 15x the payments of other programs - Shell companies used to create some of the facilities - The amount of new locations have exploded in Minnesota cities - Many owned by known money laundering scammers “This may look like your typical single family home but it bills itself as an assisted living facility and it receives a lot of taxpayer money. Here in Minnesota the number of people getting help in assisted living facilities is up double the growth of other programs. But here's the kicker, the rate of payment in this assisted living space is 10 to 15 times the growth in other programs. We pulled the data on assisted living facilities in the Minneapolis area. Minneapolis, as you might expect, has a lot. 169. - St. Paul, with a population of 307,000, has 83 - Brooklyn Center, 30,000 population, has 106 - Brooklyn Park, population of 84,000, has 181, more than Minneapolis a city five times its size. But this assisted living facility puts this all in perspective. It's owned by a man indicted for laundering a million dollars in the Feeding Our Future scam.” “These assisted living facilities received over $2.3 million in state money last year alone. A Minnesota Reformer article says he has been paid a whopping $49 million since 2016.”