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Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis

Republican-led House panel subpoenas Tim Walz over $250m Covid relief fraud

Tim Walz at a rally.
Tim Walz was governor of Minnesota when the multimillion-dollar fraud scheme accurred. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

A Republican-led US House committee sent a subpoena to Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, seeking documents and communications related to a vast fraud scheme conducted by a non-profit that used pandemic relief funds meant for feeding kids.

NBC News first reported the subpoenas, which were sent to Walz; Minnesota’s commissioner of education, Willie Jett; the US agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack; and the agriculture inspector general, Phyllis Fong.

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