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Gov. Walz And AG Ellison To Testify At March 4 Hearing On Fraud In Minnesota

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tim Walz may no longer be seeking reelection as governor, but the questions surrounding the fraud that unfolded on his watch are not going away. Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are now headed to Capitol Hill to face a congressional investigation into welfare fraud in Minnesota. Both men are scheduled to testify on March 4 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Americans deserve answers about the rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs that occurred on Governor Walz’s and Attorney General Ellison’s watch,” Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement. “The House Oversight Committee recently heard sworn testimony from Minnesota state lawmakers who stated that Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison failed to act to stop this widespread fraud and retaliated against whistleblowers who raised concerns.” He added, “We look forward to questioning Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison under oath about this scandal to ensure transparency and accountability for the American people, and to advance solutions to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse and impose stronger penalties …

Watch: Convicted Minnesota Scammer Says Walz, Ellison Were Aware Of 0M Fraud

Watch: Convicted Minnesota Scammer Says Walz, Ellison Were Aware Of $250M Fraud

Published by Jenni Sidey

The media has been giving quite a lot of attention to Aimee Bock, the head of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the largest pandemic relief fraud in the nation’s history – which she now says Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison had to have known about. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) To review; Bock’s organization, Feeding Our Future, fraudulently signed off on $250 million in federal funds meant to feed underprivileged children in Minnesota roughly 125 million nonexistent meals. According to prosecutors, as little as 3% of the funds were actually used to feed children. Bock, 45, was charged with signing off on reimbursement claims for the unserved meals, as well as collecting bribes. She maintains her innocence, while one Somali community leader told a local reporter that Bock was “a modern-day Robin Hood.” Feeding Our Future was a “sponsoring organization,” meaning it approved meal sites, approved meal counts, and distributed the reimbursements to …

David Ellison Sues Warner Bros, Launches Proxy Battle Over Netflix Bid

Published by Daniella Wilson

Paramount is upping its fight for Warner Bros. Discovery. In a letter to WBD shareholders Monday, Paramount CEO David Ellison said his company has filed suit against WBD in Delaware seeking greater financial disclosure of the Netflix deal. Additionally, Ellison said his company plans to nominate its own slate of directors for WBD’s board who they believe would vote against the deal with Netflix. After repeated attempts, Paramount has stuck with its $30 per share tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery and has argued that its all-cash bid remains “superior” to the deal that WBD signed with Netflix. WBD’s board rejected Paramount’s latest bid, which included a personal guarantee from Oracle founder Larry Ellison, saying that it still did not address all their concerns. Warner Bros. struck a deal with Netflix in December that would see the streamer acquire its TV and movie studios for $83 billion. In the letter Monday, Ellison argues that there is a “customary financial disclosure a board is supposed to provide shareholders when making an investment recommendation.” But he argues …

Warner Bros. Discovery Just Emphatically Rejected Paramount. Will David Ellison Take No for an Answer?

Published by Sam Flores

Not so fast, David Ellison. On Wednesday, January 7, the Warner Bros. Discovery board advised its shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance for the company, citing uncertainties regarding the debt financing tied to Paramount’s offer, while maintaining that Netflix’s offer to buy the company is the superior offer. The board’s recommendation was unanimous—a tough break for Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who has spent months publicly angling to swallow up WBD following his headline-grabbing takeover of Paramount. “Paramount’s offer continues to provide insufficient value, including terms such as an extraordinary amount of debt financing that create risks to close and lack of protections for our shareholders if a transaction is not completed,” said Samuel A. Di Piazza Jr., chair of the WBD board of directors, in a press release. “Our binding agreement with Netflix will offer superior value at greater levels of certainty, without the significant risks and costs Paramount’s offer would impose on our shareholders.” In December of 2025, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos announced that it had entered a definitive …

New CBS Evening News Will be Independent From Trump and David Ellison

Published by Daniella Wilson

Tony Dokoupil has a New Year’s Day message for CBS Evening News viewers: He knows that legacy media has failed to retain that trust Americans once had in its work, and he intends to try and fix that. The anchor, who will officially take over the program on Jan. 5, released a video Thursday with something of a manifesto for what he sees as the current state of affairs for media, promising independence from David Ellison and the Paramount leadership team, as well as any other political or corporate interested, while also acknowledging something that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has drilled into staff at the network since she took over just a few months ago: The trust in legacy media has eroded, and it needs to be revived someway, somehow. “A lot has changed since the first person sat in this chair. But for me, the biggest difference is people do not trust us like they used to. And it’s not just us. It’s all of legacy media,” Dokoupil said in his video, adding …

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