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Governor Walz Selects Ex-BCA Chief To Fight Fraud Statewide, Rasmusson Reacts

By Derek Sidian Dec 13, 2025 | 7:16 AM

St. Paul, MN – Governor Tim Walz announced his new fraud prevention plan to protect taxpayer dollars in the state.

The plan includes naming judge and former Superintendent of the BCA Tim O’Malley as the Director of Program Integrity. O’Malley’s assignment is to work with Minnesota-based WayPoint, which focuses on forensic accounting, to implement a new fraud prevention program.

Senator Jordan Rasmusson of Fergus Falls called O’Malley’s hiring another inept attempt by the governor to address fraud without holding anyone accountable for past actions.

“Today’s announcement is more of the same from Walz, it’s all talk and no walk. A statewide director of program integrity isn’t something you need when your commissioners are doing their jobs well in the first place,” Senator Rasmusson said. “Governor Walz had seven years to improve program integrity but failed in multiple agencies across dozens of programs. We don’t even have permanent DHS commissioner after nearly a year, but somehow, we have time to create and hire a new position to oversee every program? It’s yet another flurry of action without any real changes.  

“Minnesotans expect their government to provide vigorous oversight of our welfare programs. This is the second outside vendor called in to help and that demonstrates Governor Walz simply has no idea how to run government with strict oversight and accountability,” Rasmusson concluded.

O’Malley is currently the interim chief judge of the Court of Administrative Hearings. His hiring comes after the recent Feeding Our Future scandals, with rumors of more allegations of fraud in the Minnesota Department of Human Services. O’Malley will begin his new role next month.

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