# Wikiparency ### Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Minnesota and the 49-State Surrounding Area > [!abstract] Analysis layer > This opening is the project's claim. Every link in it goes to the document that carries the fact; the pages behind the directory below are record, written so a reader who rejects the claim can still use them. **Minnesota's federal disclosures are fraudulent, and the fraud is written into state law.** Every federal dollar the State of Minnesota takes comes with a signed promise. Every application must carry an assurance that the funded program will be run in compliance with Title VI ([45 C.F.R. § 80.4](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/80.4); [42 U.S.C. § 2000d](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000d)); the standard grant assurance adds that the applicant "will comply with all Federal statutes relating to nondiscrimination," naming Title VI, Title IX and "any other nondiscrimination statute(s) which may apply" ([SF-424B, item 6](https://www.nist.gov/iaao/teachlearn/upload/Fillable-SF424B.pdf)); every financial report is certified, under penalty of [18 U.S.C. § 1001](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001) and the [False Claims Act](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/3729), as spent "for the purposes and objectives set forth in the terms and conditions of the Federal award" ([2 C.F.R. § 200.415](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/2/200.415)), terms that must incorporate the laws "prohibiting discrimination" ([2 C.F.R. § 200.300](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/2/200.300)); and since [Executive Order 14173](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02097.pdf) (January 21, 2025) every federal award must carry a term by which the recipient agrees that "its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment decisions" and certifies "that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws" — a provision the Fourth Circuit freed from injunction on February 6, 2026 ([*NADOHE v. Trump*](https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/NADOHE-v-Trump-Feb-2026.pdf)). The scale and the signers are a matter of record: the ten statewide single-audit packages for audit years 2016–2025, each certified by a Minnesota Management and Budget Assistant Commissioner and filed with the [Federal Audit Clearinghouse](https://www.fac.gov/), cover **$184,588,166,429** of federal expenditures ([Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota](<wiki/MN/Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota.md>)). On every one of those dates, between 20 and 27 Minnesota instruments were in force that **require** its agencies and contractors to act by race and sex. The chain is short and every link is the State's own text. Governor Wendell Anderson's [Executive Order No. 37](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/72-37.pdf), filed July 28, 1972, ordered "each department of state government" to "establish an Affirmative Action Program" covering recruitment, selection, promotion, layoff and compensation. The Legislature wrote it into statute in [Laws 1978, ch. 708](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1978/0/708/) and carried it into the personnel code of [Laws 1981, ch. 210](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1981/0/210/), whose § 43A.19 declares it state policy "to eliminate the effects of past and present discrimination, intended or unintended, on the basis of protected group status" ([Minn. Stat. § 43A.19](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.19)). [Minn. Stat. § 43A.191](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.191), enacted in the [1985 First Special Session](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1985/1/13/) and sharpened in [Laws 1987, ch. 186](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1987/0/186/), requires every agency to set hiring goals for "protected groups" — defined by sex, disability and race in [§ 43A.02, subd. 33](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.02) — and provides that an agency that misses them "must justify its nonaffirmative action hires." The form that does it is on the State's own site: hiring managers "[s]elect affirmative status of individual hired for the vacancy: Affirmative / Non-Affirmative" ([MMB, Monitoring the Hiring Process form, October 2025](https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/equal-opportunity/affirmative-action/monitoring-the-hiring-process-form.pdf)). [Minn. R. ch. 3905](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/3905/full) tells the agencies how to write those plans; [§ 363A.36](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/363A.36) makes a workforce certificate a condition of doing business with the State; [§ 16C.16](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/16C.16) puts a preference by group into state purchasing — the kind of preference that has faced strict scrutiny since [*Croson*](https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/488/469) (1989). Thirteen amending chapters since 1985, signed by DFL, Independent-Republican and Republican governors, have adjusted this machinery; none has repealed it ([Portal — Affirmative Action Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Affirmative Action Regime.md>)). The officers who sign the federal papers are the officers who administer these statutes. Under *[Escobar](https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/15-7)* (2016) a claim for payment that misrepresents compliance with a material condition is a false claim, and Executive Order 14173 makes the condition material by the award's own terms. A State whose officers sign that they run no race-conscious program, under a statute that commands one, is making a false certification, and we say so plainly. The United States has already sued on the machinery itself — *[United States v. State of Minnesota](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-department-justice-files-lawsuit-against-minnesotas-affirmative-action-regime)*, No. 0:26-cv-00273 (D. Minn., [complaint](https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl) filed January 14, 2026; [docket](https://clearinghouse.net/case/47712/)), pleading under Title VII that the State's hiring rules are a pattern or practice of discrimination by race and sex — but no federal filing has yet reached the certifications. That is the gap this wiki documents. We date the claim, because the record does. Before January 21, 2025 the federal government required availability-based hiring goals of its own contractors ([41 C.F.R. § 60-2.10](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/60-2.10), under Executive Order 11246), tolerated voluntary plans under *Weber* and *Johnson*, kept Minnesota's statutes and its biennial reports in plain view, and paid every audited year in full — which under *Escobar* is "very strong evidence" that it did not treat the matter as material. Title VI, moreover, does not reach an employer's hiring except where employment is the assistance's primary objective ([42 U.S.C. § 2000d-3](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000d-3)). The claim is therefore strongest for contracting preferences at any date and for every award accepted since 2025, and weakest for the hiring goals of the years before. The test that reached these conclusions is published as the analysis page [Claim test — Minnesota's federal disclosures are fraudulent](<Analysis/MN/Claim_Test_Federal_Disclosures_2026-10-29.md>), and it lists the five documents that would close what is still open. Minnesota is the center of this record because Minnesota built the model and exported it; the other forty-nine states are the control. A pattern found only where you look for it proves nothing, so every Minnesota finding here is measured against states that did not build the same machinery — and when Minnesota turns out to be ordinary, that result is published too ([Wikiparency](Wikiparency.md), the record's structure and rules). --- ## The Portals Each portal is the entry point to one of the ten regimes the record is organized around: what each instrument requires, who enacted and amended it (with party labels), what every court actually held, and the articles that treat each in full. Every portal closes with two readings of the same record, each critical of both parties, and a table of the corpus's claims checked against the documents. | Portal | What it opens | Anchor documents | |---|---|---| | **[Affirmative Action Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Affirmative Action Regime.md>)** | §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191, Minn. R. ch. 3905, the executive orders of 1972–1991, the contract certificates and purchasing preferences, the biennial affirmative-action report, and *United States v. Minnesota* (2026) | [§ 43A.191](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.191/pdf) · [Laws 1978, ch. 708](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1978/0/708/) · [Laws 1987, ch. 186](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1987/0/Session+Law/Chapter/186/pdf/) · [1Sp2019, ch. 10](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2019/1/10/) | | **[University of Minnesota Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - University of Minnesota Regime.md>)** | the 1851 territorial charter and constitutional autonomy, the Morrill and Dakota-treaty land, the 2023 TRUTH report, the *Rajender* consent decree (1980) and *Maitland* (1994–2003), the Regents' equity policy, and the 2023–2026 federal civil-rights complaints | [Laws 1851, ch. 3](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1851/0/General+Laws/Chapter/3/pdf/) · [*Rajender*, 730 F.2d 1110](https://openjurist.org/730/f2d/1110/rajender-v-university-of-minnesota-rajender) · [*Maitland*, 155 F.3d 1013](https://openjurist.org/155/f3d/1013) · [DOJ tuition complaint](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-complaint-challenging-minnesota-laws-providing-state-tuition) | | **[Feminism Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Feminism Regime.md>)** | the instruments written in terms of sex: the Council on the Economic Status of Women (1976), the Pay Equity Acts of [1982](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1982/0/634/) and [1984](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1984/0/651/), the Women's Economic Security Act, the domestic-abuse and custody statutes, and the caucuses of both parties that wrote them | [§ 518.17](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/518.17) · [§ 363A.44](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/363A.44) · [DOJ Title IX complaint](https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1433251/dl) | | **[PELRA Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - PELRA Regime.md>)** | the Public Employment Labor Relations Act of 1971, the boards and unions that work under it, the fair-share and dues cases decided in Washington, the 2013 provider-unionization act, and *United States v. Minneapolis Public Schools* (2025–2026) | [Laws 1971, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 33](https://revisor.mn.gov/laws/1971/1/33) · [§ 179A.06](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/179A.06) · [MPS complaint](https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1420496/dl) | | **[Professional Association Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Professional Association Regime.md>)** | the licensing boards of chapter 214, the Supreme Court's bar, the teacher and peace-officer boards, and the private accreditors whose standards the State adopts by reference | [§ 214.02](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/214.02) · [Laws 2024, ch. 127](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2024/0/127/) · [*N.C. Dental Examiners v. FTC*](https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-534) | | **[Metropolitan Council Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Metropolitan Council Regime.md>)** | the 1967 act and the appointment rule under which every member "serves at the pleasure of the governor," the elected-council bills and their fates, the regional tax-base, land-use and housing powers, and the Council's affirmative-action and DBE programs | [Laws 1967, ch. 896](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1967/0/Session+Law/Chapter/896/pdf/) · [§ 473.123](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/473.123) · [Laws 1994, ch. 628](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1994/0/628/) | | **[One Minnesota Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - One Minnesota Regime.md>)** | the governors' orders, councils, offices, plan and budget that carry the One Minnesota name, the statutes that bound them, the measures they set, and the federal order and suit that now test them | [EO 91-14](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf) · [EO 16-01](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/16-01.pdf) · [EO 23-12](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf) · [§ 15.0593](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/15.0593) | | **[Community Action Programs Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Community Action Programs Regime.md>)** | the Economic Opportunity Act network and the Community Services Block Grant, the state statute that funds the agencies, the one federal prosecution of a Minnesota community-action chief executive, and the separate child-nutrition prosecutions | [§ 142F.30](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/142F.30) · [Laws 1981, ch. 367](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1981/0/367/) · [DOJ takedown release](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/minnesota-health-care-fraud-takedown-results-charges-against-15-defendants-over-90m-fraud) | | **[New Minnesotans Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - New Minnesotans Regime.md>)** | refugee resettlement in Minnesota since 1975, the state offices and statutes that serve immigrant and refugee residents, the resident-tuition and driver's-license laws, and the federal orders, suits and enforcement operation of 2025–2026 | [§ 135A.043](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/135A.043) · [Laws 2023, ch. 13](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/Session+Law/Chapter/13/) · [tuition suit docket](https://clearinghouse.net/case/46742/) | | **[Climate Regime](<wiki/MN/Portals/Portal - Climate Regime.md>)** | the State's suit against oil producers and the United States' suit to stop it (*United States v. Minnesota & Ellison*, filed May 4, 2026), the carbon-free electricity and nuclear-storage statutes, the gas and helium royalty law, the taconite and Legacy amendments, and the PFAS settlement | [§ 93.516](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/93.516) · [Laws 2024, ch. 116](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2024/0/116/) · [DOJ complaint](https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1439311/dl?inline) | ## The spine behind the portals - **[How Minnesota Got Here](<wiki/MN/How Minnesota Got Here.md>)** — the parent article: how the instruments were built, in what order, by whom, and under which governors of which party. - **[Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota](<wiki/MN/Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota.md>)** — the 62 signatures, what each kind of paper represents, who signs it, and which State instruments were in force on each date. - **[State Government Pay Equity Act](<wiki/MN/State Government Pay Equity Act.md>)** · **[Local Government Pay Equity Act](<wiki/MN/Local Government Pay Equity Act.md>)** · **[Council on the Economic Status of Women](<wiki/MN/Council on the Economic Status of Women.md>)** · **[Targeted group business program](<wiki/MN/Targeted group business program (Minnesota).md>)** — the instrument articles the portals route to. - **[Wikiparency](Wikiparency.md)** — the record's structure: lanes, schema, and how to read a record page. ## The hubs of the record | Question | Section | What's there | |---|---|---| | **Who** | [[hubs/Actors and Architects|Actors and Architects]] | People and institutions. *Architects* designed the rules; *Actors* hold office and carry them out. | | **What: the law** | [[hubs/Acts Amendments and Antecedents|Acts Amendments and Antecedents]] | Statutes, treaties, cases and founding instruments from 1837 to 2026, each linked to its authors and its year | | **What: the issues** | [[hubs/Actions At Issue Arguments|Actions At Issue Arguments]] | The ten regimes, the Dynamic Theories, and the federal actions between Minnesota and the United States | | **When** | [[hubs/Annals And Almanac|Annals And Almanac]] | A decade-by-decade timeline from the 1840s to 2026 | | **Where** | [[hubs/Area and Arena|Area and Arena]] | Counties, cities, buildings and event sites, mapped | | **How much** | [[hubs/Agency Allotments|Agency Allotments]] | Agencies, nonprofits, unions and foundations, with their 990s, LM-2s, contracts and appropriations | | **Why** | [[hubs/Agendas and Appropriations|Agendas and Appropriations]] | Stated purposes checked against where the money went | | **The record** | [[hubs/Addresses Advisories and Archives|Addresses Advisories and Archives]] | What was actually sent to federal officials, and when | | **Analysis** | [[hubs/Analysis|Analysis]] | Essays and interpretation, kept separate from the evidence | Every published page, A–Z: [[hubs/Index|Index]]. The collections announced on the September draft of this page (County Series, The New Yankees, One Escape Nine Statutes, The Deck, Decade Files, Minnesota Government Directory, 2026 Candidates, Eleven Nations, And the Kitchen Sink) are being moved into this record and will link from here when they are. --- ## Rules we hold ourselves to Private citizens are out of scope. A charge is not a conviction. No group carries collective guilt — the people charged in Minnesota's benefit-program cases are individuals, charged as individuals, and the machine they used is older than any of them. Public officials are judged by their own acts in their own offices. We do not arrange true facts so that they imply something the record does not show, and we date our errors and leave them in. > [!note] Work in progress > Wikiparency is being assembled in public. Every page is a draft until the record is formalized by the inauguration of the governor elected on November 3, 2026 — the first Monday in January, **January 4, 2027** ([Minn. Const. art. VII, § 7](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/constitution/#article_7)). Record pages describe; this page states the claim. Corrections are logged in place, with the date. *Wikiparency is a project of MTN, Minneapolis. Welcome page revised October 29, 2026.*