Rep. Clay Higgins called on Keith Ellison to resign during the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on the widespread fraud in Minnesota.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison answers questions Thursday from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “Under Minnesota law, my Office has limited jurisdiction over criminal matters.
The only kind of criminal case we can prosecute on our own is Medicaid fraud; any other criminal case must be specifically referred to us by county attorneys or the Governor,” Ellison said in his opening statement. Higgins stated Ellison said that his office only had the authority to investigate Medicaid fraud, to which Ellison nodded his head in response.“Under your own law, you have authority if the county district attorney asks you to get involved, or if the governor asks you to get involved, then your office can take the lead on any criminal investigation,” Ellison said.“So you have the authority to lead your state's effort to respond to this massive fraud at the state level, from within the health care realm, where government money has been stolen at very, very high levels, unprecedented levels, in your state,” Higgins said.Ellison replied but his response was not picked up by the microphone.Ellison responded, “we are leading the effort to prosecute Medicaid fraud.”“Don't hide behind that. You have the authority to prosecute anything criminally that the governor asked you to. And this thing is big.” “I'm giving you an opportunity, sir. Are you leading the criminal investigative effort into this massive fraud across the board in the healthcare spectrum, in the state of Minnesota or not,” Higgins continued.“You are not leading,” Higgins responded. “You're not leading. I must say, Mr. Chairman, that the Attorney General of Minnesota should resign.”A 15-year-old girl was killed in a rollover crash involving nine students from Cyprus High inside one car.According to Roxanne Vainuku with the West Valley CitA wrongful death lawsuit filed in Utah alleges a counterfeit airbag turned a routine crash into a fatal explosion that killed a teenage driver within minutes.AlKristina Lynn Tso, 40, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuseA pothole on northbound I-15 in Salt Lake caused flat tires in several cars.The pothole, located near 1100 South, caused flat tires in "7 to 10" cars late TuesdInvestigators believe another vehicle may have been involved in a deadly crash that killed one victim and hospitalized another on Sunday.The crash happened on
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