The Stack: Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Government Accountability Myth
What’s happening in Minnesota should alarm every taxpayer in America. A series of state audits and federal prosecutions have revealed widespread fraud, nonexistent oversight, and leadership failure inside Minnesota’s government agencies—particularly in programs funded to help vulnerable populations.
Hundreds of millions of dollars were distributed with missing documentation, fabricated compliance records, and little evidence that services were ever delivered. Even more disturbing, much of this was uncovered not by legacy media outlets, but by independent journalists and citizen investigators doing the job the press refused to do.
In today’s episode, Todd Huff breaks down how ideology, blind faith in government, and bureaucratic incompetence combine to create a perfect environment for corruption. From the Feeding Our Future scandal to newly exposed audit failures inside Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, the pattern is unmistakable: government expands, oversight disappears, and taxpayers are left holding the bill.
This episode challenges listeners to rethink the role of government, demand accountability, and stop excusing failure simply because it’s wrapped in compassionate rhetoric.
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📰 Stack Links
MN fraudster who became spectacularly on Tim Walz’s watch brutally loses her luxury lifestyle
House Oversight Committee: Walz, Ellison ignored fraud and silenced whistleblowers
Legislative auditor: DHS employees backdated/created documentation during audit
CBS Minnesota: audit finds widespread failures in oversight of DHS grants
Minnesota DHS investigating falsified documentation in grant program
NY Post: Minnesota audit finds state health workers mismanaged grants, falsified documents
CBS News: what we know about Minnesota’s massive fraud schemes amid scrutiny
Reuters: Tim Walz won’t seek third term to focus on welfare fraud scandal
Minnesota lawmakers accuse Walz of allowing a culture of fraud to flourish
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📝 Transcript: Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Government Accountability Myth
The Todd Huff Show – January 8, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: My friends, what is happening in the great state of Minnesota is absolutely inexcusable. And we are just, my friends, beginning to scratch the surface. Thanks to. Thanks to the independent journalist and YouTuber named Nick Shirley and others out there that are doing the jobs of the mainstream media, the media that refuses to do its job.
Todd Huff: We should have known this sort of thing. We should have known this sort of thing a long time ago. It is a catastrophic failure. For media as though it needed another failure at all. But, my friends, it is unacceptable. It is absolutely just mind boggling what we are uncovering and finding in the state of Minnesota.
Todd Huff: And we'll talk about that today. Fraud, accountability, leadership failure, all of that in today's program. My friends, you know, you're well, we're coming to you here from the Full Suite Wealth Studios, and maybe you've reached that stage where managing your money feels more like juggling than it feels like dealing with the numbers, the financial X's and O's.
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Todd Huff: My friends, I think this country needs to focus more on building its legacy, in a sense, because this garbage that's happening in our states, in our cities, in our federal government is absolutely, positively inexcusable. It is mind numbing to me to realize what we have found ourselves getting into.
Todd Huff: My friends. And so I want to talk about what's happening here. I've got a couple of. A couple of stories that I want to reference on today's program. Three, in fact, regarding what's happening in Minnesota. Now, we've talked about this briefly. I've not dedicated a ton of time to this, but I am dedicating this episode to talking about this.
Todd Huff: About this because this is again, just. It's just unbelievable the amount of waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, mismanagement. All of it. It is just absolutely unbelievable. Fox News here has an article. Headline here says, if I can pull it back up, “Scathing audit reveals more fraud concerns inside top Minnesota agency with fabricated documents misconduct.”
Todd Huff: Minnesota GOP State Senator Mark Kran. Corin? I don't know. K R A N says the audit shows a complete breakdown of protecting taxpayer funds. I want to pause here. I want to pause here. It is a remarkable thing to me. The amount of just a. A denial of common sense that's required to embrace the ideology of the left today.
Todd Huff: We have massive failures of our government at all levels, by the way. And at all levels, I mean, at the federal level, that's obvious. They lose billions upon billions upon billions, maybe trillions of dollars. They've just. It is a disaster at the federal government level. We've seen some of that exposed through DOGE. We've seen some of that exposed through how COVID was dealt with. We've seen some of that. There's so many examples of the, of the federal government just absolutely creating havoc for the American people, mismanaging stuff.
Todd Huff: I mean, they lose money. All the time. They can't account for what's happening in the finances that they're already in control of. They want. But on top of that, on top of that, they want to do more. They want to achieve more, or they want to accomplish more when they're not even hitting their core competencies.
Todd Huff: You know, the Constitution. I don't want to be, you know, the nerd over here. I love the Constitution, but I don't want to sound like the guy that says, actually in the Constitution. But that's, you know, what the Constitution is, this guiding landmark, this guiding document that says this is what the government's supposed to be doing.
Todd Huff: And it lays out what each branch is supposed to be doing. And none of the. None of the things. If you look at the vast majority of what the government is doing today, none of it has to do, or very little of it has to do with what is actually in the Constitution. Now, I want to be clear. I was joking. I love and revere the Constitution. It's one of the greatest documents ever written. That and the Declaration, as far as a secular document, but it frames some. Some ideas and it frames the way the government is supposed to work.
Todd Huff: Unfortunately, the average person doesn't know what's in those documents. They don't understand what's in the document. They don't understand how we've. This country's been framed to function and operate. They don't understand. And candidly, they don't care. They've been conditioned to say, well, my opinion about this issue is that the government should do X. And then suddenly the government is doing it because the people are demanding it or whatever, and you've got representatives doing things that are nowhere in the Constitution.
Todd Huff: And so I think constantly, how do you. How do you bring attention to these sort of important core issues? How do you get people to read the Constitution? I try all different approaches and concepts to get people to at least stop and think why we do the things that we do. Why the nation was framed, the government was framed the way that it was framed. And why. Why we should care. Why we should care. Because this is very these decisions, what we allow our government to do, are fundamentally important to, well, having a republic, number one.
Todd Huff: But also retaining our liberties, the rule of law and the proper order of doing things. And so you have mismanagement at every level. It's obvious that the federal level, DOGE exposed a lot of it. Again, we've got other examples of the government abusing all sorts of things. I mean, there's examples galore from the federal perspective, but there's plenty of examples at the state level as well. That's what we're talking about here. What's happening specifically in one of our 50 nifty United States here, the state of Minnesota.
Todd Huff: But there's problems, I'm telling you, at every level you dig. In fact, you just dig slightly. Slightly beneath the surface. In your city or town, your local school board, your county government offices, there will be mismanagement. And people who are doing things that they aren't really supposed to be doing, spending money on things inappropriately, or at least with less than stellar oversight. I mean, it is. I'm telling you, every single place that you look.
Todd Huff: There might be examples here and there of government being run well, but I tell you what, that would be the exception and not the rule. And how this has become acceptable to me is mind boggling. And how any person could say after watching stories like this unfold, that government needs to do more, makes my head want to explode. Because it just defies logic and common sense.
Todd Huff: So let's look at this article here. A major state audit in Minnesota conducted by the nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor found widespread failures and internal problems in the Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration. That's the BHA. It's grant program, reaffirming concerns about massive fraud issues. The report released on Monday found that between July 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024, DHS, that's about 18 months, by the way.
Todd Huff: DHS dished out more than $425 million in grants to over 830 organizations, the majority being non governmental, and did not show proper oversight in watching over these taxpayer funds. Which in many cases were meant to help those with addiction and mental health issues. Pause. Pause, pause, pause. Now, this is where the rubber meets the road.
Todd Huff: You have politicians or you have people out there who are talking about what government should do, and they always talk about some group that we should be helping. And if you don't want to help this group, you're a terrible human being. So here's some groups, just some examples that came up right here. People who struggle with addiction or mental health issues. And so they immediately, what they do is they pull at your heartstrings and they say, listen, dude.
Todd Huff: Why can't you support some program that's designed to help these people? You know, you're doing well. You're living your life. You don't have these problems. You should show how thankful you are by giving your money to help these particular people.
Todd Huff: Now, let me pause for a moment. I listen. I'm not here to say that that's good or bad. I don't like that we always, always have to go to the government for these things to be funded and so forth. I don't. I don't know where this idea really took. Took its root or, you know, has its roots. But. But this is the way that we do this. And, and people say, yeah, you know, I care about these people.
Todd Huff: These people have hard circumstances. And then. And then people start inserting themselves and think, you know what? I'm. I'm fortunate I didn't have this problem. You know what? The government can do it. Well, but the government does it pitifully, my friends, as we'll see here in the case of Minnesota.
Todd Huff: And so the, the starting point is they, they come to you and say, well, you know, you're healthy. You don't have addiction problems. And by the way, if you have addiction or mental health problems or things like that, this has nothing to do with that for me. I'm just painting the picture of what happens. What happens, so you can insert other issues there as well. And you can see how this works, okay? You go to the taxpayer, you say, my goodness, we have this problem in our community. We want to do this program to help them. And that's enough for many people to say, wow, let's. Let's do this.
Todd Huff: Well, what are you going to do? Who's going to run this? How are we going to be determining who gets the money? And what sort of measurables, KPIs, we have here to make sure that we're actually doing what we set out to do?There's none of that. You'll find out. There's none of that. As I read this story. Or maybe there's the intention to have that. But in reality, it doesn't materialize.
Todd Huff: And now this is a. This is an egregious example, but I'm telling you, and you know this, this happens everywhere. Maybe not to this degree, but in some way, shape, manner or form. I've got examples. I'll tell you some stories here as the program unfolds of things that I've run into personally as it comes to federal grants and all this sort of stuff.
Todd Huff: The audit, the article says, found missing progress reports and discovered BHA could not show it had completed all required monitoring visits. So basically, the progress reports weren't there in the files. Didn't exist, or they don't know where they are. The people handing out the money did not complete all the required.
Todd Huff: Right. So when you tell the taxpayer or you develop this program, this is what we're going to do. These are the requirements. This is how we're going to measure it.We're going to go and look at this. We're going to make sure they're doing that. We're going to stay on top of it because it seems like. Wow. That seems like the easy part to do.
Todd Huff: You get in your car, you go over and you, you. You look around, you show up with your clipboard or your. Whatever you got. They file digital reports. I don't. It's government, so they're probably faxing stuff in still. But you go over there, you do your. Your rounds, you make sure that what they tell you they're doing, they're doing. First of all, you make sure that they tell you what they're doing. How they're using the funds, why those funds that they've gotten are relevant to the rules of the program. And you check off all these things along the way.
Todd Huff: Should they get the money? Yes. Are they doing what the money, what they said they were going to do? Yes. Are. Who are they serving? Yeah, I saw some people over there. You know, there's no people. In the case of the Somali preschool and daycare fraud. There were no kids in some of these places. I don't know if there were kids in any of them. And that that you realize how stupid the government has to be. Or inept or apathetic or something.
Todd Huff: It's either that they're stupid, gullible, they don't care. It's got to be something like that to not even know that there's no kids. There's no kids in the Somali daycare and preschool scandal. There's no kids being served. They. They build offices that look like kids should be in there. But they've never seen kids in there. It's just. I mean, it's. It's comical in a sense. It's not because it's real. It's your dollars, it's your government, it's my government.
Todd Huff: But it is. This is the stuff. This is the stuff that we've been told isn't happening. Remember when DOGE was finding all the mismanaged funds, we were told, no. No way. There are dead people on Social Security, folks. I am. I would bet just about anything that there are absolutely dead people. I don't know how many, but dead people getting Social Security. I venture to say there's dead people getting in any benefit you can imagine.
Todd Huff: I would venture to say that there is fraud in every single program. Now, it may be a case here and there, or it could be widespread, like we're finding out with what's happening here. And how do we find this out? How did we find this out? We found this out because of a citizen journalist, an independent journalist, a YouTuber, a 23-year-old guy. Has uncovered more than more about this than the local what? CBS, ABC, Fox affiliates, whatever. Whoever. I left out their NBC.
Todd Huff: All those folks in Minnesota combined. No CNN? No Fox News? No. Take your pick down the line, MSNBC. In fact, they've probably got experts on there telling us why having concern for these funds is racist and everything else. But they didn't even require the reports be completed that were required. They didn't require all the monitoring visits. And they had no documentation at all. So some of these files are completely empty.
Todd Huff: We gave money to XYZ organization, and there's a file in the file cabinet. Maybe not even that. But maybe there's an empty file folder or a digital file on the desktop somewhere with no files in it. And they're giving these people a total in that 18-month period of $425 million. That sound reasonable? To you. Additionally, the article says auditors discovered what appeared to be a backdated or newly created documentation that did not exist before the audit.
Todd Huff: Suggesting an effort to retroactively. Retroactively manufacture paperwork to show compliance. So the auditors were turning up the heat on these people. And instead of actually figuring out, okay, we messed up. How do we. How do we do what we're supposed to do? They say, let's cover our tracks. And let's make it look like we were actually doing our job all the time. Of course. This is human nature. This is predictable.
Todd Huff: This is happening. How does this happen? How does it happen with so much money, with so much oversight? Remember these people that run for office, they're. Listen, they're all responsible for this at some level. How do these things get by the notice of everybody? How? The article continues. In one instance, the report found that a grant manager approved over $600,000 in payments. And later left the government agency to go work for the grantee.
Todd Huff: So. So there was someone who worked for the government who was overseeing the grant. That person personally approved $600,000 in payments to the organization getting the grant. And then they said, gee whiz, I'm on the wrong side of this. Let me go. I'm just ostensibly allegedly here. This. I'm giving all this money to this group. Probably not doing anything with it. They got to have shadow employees to pay. I'm just saying this a mess.
Todd Huff: Then they go work for them. The OLA report shows a complete breakdown how DHS’s Behavioral Health Administration manages hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded grants. Republican State Senator Mark Kran—Corin, whatever—said in a press release BHA failed to verify that grantees were providing the services that they were paid for. Failed to put basic financial controls in place and then created documentation after the fact to mislead auditors.
Todd Huff: My friends, I have a 16. My wife and I have a 16-year-old son. He's got. Doing some stuff where he's, you know, making. Making money. And it sounds like if he had a lemonade stand today, that he has more controls over the money than what we have in our federal government's grant system. This is absolutely unbelievable.
Todd Huff: The audit also found that when employees were surveyed, 73% of them said they did not receive the necessary training to properly administer, manage grants. I guess there's a missing “and” there with one employee saying executive leadership has repetitively shown staff that they won't take the staff's concerns or questions seriously until something serious happens or it makes the news that gets everybody's attention.
Todd Huff: When it makes the news. And of course, you got a complicit media that doesn't cover this stuff, so it's a perfect storm, my friends. A perfect storm indeed. I just looked at the clock and I've got to wrap it up here, this segment. Quick reminder, friends. If you're tired of spending your hard-earned money at businesses that turn around and support leftist causes, I've got just the thing for you.
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Todd Huff: Time out for me. You're listening to Conservative Not Bitter Talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. Back here in just a minute. My friends, this entire thing is absolutely, unequivocally disastrous. It's disastrous in the most simple and obvious of terms for the American taxpayer.
Todd Huff: It's disastrous for people who care about the way that their nation is governed, the way that their states are run, the way that the government oversees whatever supposedly is happening in each, in their community and in their state. And it's disastrous for people who put so much hope and trust in their government.
Todd Huff: I am amazed. I really am. I'm amazed at when I say on here, when I say on here that the radical left worships government, I am not exaggerating on that. I'm not. Now, I'm not saying every person who has a leftist viewpoint or every person who is a Democrat has government as their guide. That is not what I'm saying. I'm speaking specifically about those who constantly tell us that government has all the answers. They tell us. Remember the communists, my friends. They told us out in the clear, out in the open. They told us that government was God.
Todd Huff: You have to study this very long to realize, for example, in the Soviet Union, that's exactly what government was. Government was effectively, they tried it. Of course, it fails miserably. Nothing can replace God. But they try to. In fact, they let you, if you study the Soviet Union, my goodness, my friends, it is such a dark and evil period of time. Government oppressive. Just terrible, terrible stuff happened to people. Go back and read things like Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
Todd Huff: And you'll find stories. You'll find stories of people who were persecuted, tortured, killed for their faith. I shared on here an example of one of those. It's been a long time since I read it, so I might be getting the details a little bit fuzzy. But I remember a group of troops went in and found a group of Christians. They stripped them naked. It was in one of the places that's very cold in the winter in Russia. They marched them out to a frozen pond and they encircled them.
Todd Huff: Basically waiting for them to freeze to death. These believers were singing worship songs and, you know, hymnals and that sort of thing as they began to literally freeze to death and die one by one. And one of the guards was so moved that he stripped down, took off his, you know, his heavy coat and his military uniform, his boots, and he walked out there and he sang alongside them, and I believe died with those believers.There's stories like that. Because why? Why were they doing that to people who simply believe in God? Well, it's because government was God. That's what they wanted. That's what this ideology requires.
Todd Huff: What government says goes, and government knows best. Because government is, I guess you've got the best and the brightest making the decisions for the rest of us idiots out there. And so, and so some people fall at the altar at the foot of government and worship it. Literally. Literally worship government. This is what it requires people to do. And it fails. It fails so miserably every single time that it's tried.
Todd Huff: Listen, I know that there's problems in any organization, including the Christian church. There are certainly examples of people who have abused their power, abused young people. These stories. There's stories everywhere, right? There are stories of this. But those are examples of people who don't follow the teachings of what the faith requires. Those things are not built in. They're not built into the faith. What's built into the faith are safeguards and morality, rules to prevent these sort of things from happening.
Todd Huff: But when humanity, when humanity is the any person, right, any socialist, any communist, any benevolent dictator basically becomes God, then it's not, it's no longer that they're not following the tenets of their belief.That's, you know, that comes from someone else. This person that's the benevolent dictator, the leader who has all the answers, is by default the example everybody else should follow.
Todd Huff: And the example they set is an example of oppression, of torture, of heartlessness, of killing, murder. It is awful. Go back and look at the 20th century. Joseph Stalin. Mao Zedong. Go back and look at these folks. It's obvious these folks believe that they should have total control, that they should be basically they're ultimately worthy. That means that they should be worshiped. That's what they think.
Todd Huff: Now, the people involved in this garbage. Here's a headline. There are so many of these folks who are so arrogant and so confident of their ways and that they'll never be caught or held accountable. But one of them has been. This is at RedState.com. This is written by Terry Christoph. Headline here, “Somali fraud ringleader’s luxury lifestyle implodes as judge seizes Porsche, diamonds and cash.”
Todd Huff: It looks like justice has finally decided to visit some of the Minnesota fraudsters who've enjoyed spectacularly luxurious lifestyles during Democrat Governor Tim Walz's time in office. Now, a lot of people, by the way, this is me, not the article, believe that Tim Walz is at least guilty of malpractice here as governor.
Todd Huff: How do you have billions of dollars? I think I saw three to four billion. Is that what I saw? That they believe has been inappropriately spent or whatever. How do you let that happen on your watch? How do you see that much money just be fraudulently used without noticing it?
Todd Huff: So some people say he was in on it. That's an allegation that's not been proven. But I would say, at least minimally, the people who say this happened on his watch and that he was not paying any attention, that's at least probably the starting point here anyway.The article continues here. One of those fraudsters, Amy Bach, 44, was a ringleader in the Feeding Our Future scam. And boy, did she enjoy flaunting the fabulous life she acquired off the backs of hardworking taxpayers.
Todd Huff: So again, like the other examples of the starting point, you got something in here. Listen. There are good causes out there that need to be funded. I work with some of these organizations. I used to run a local Boys and Girls Club. We did good work in the community. This is not a blanket indictment of all these organizations, but it's the starting point. Feeding Our Future, right? So having a program that feeds people, young people in need, I mean, who's going to be against that?
Todd Huff: So that's the starting point. You got this program that everybody has to basically be in favor of because who really wants to be on the other side of this thing? So it continues here.All that is coming to a screeching halt after a judge ordered Bach to surrender a treasure trove of luxury items that someone on a typical nonprofit salary would never be able to afford.
Todd Huff: See also the aforementioned hardworking taxpayers. A judge signed off last week on a preliminary forfeiture ordering Bach to cough up, among other things, her Porsche Panamera, a diamond necklace, her Louis Vuitton purse, and around, are you ready for this, $3.7 million in cash and money squirreled away in various bank accounts.
Todd Huff: The forfeiture of her luxury lifestyle comes after Bach was found guilty last March on federal charges of wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy in connection with what has been called the nation’s largest COVID-19 fraud scheme. She's currently awaiting sentencing, but can keep herself busy for the time being handing over all those fancy toys she loved to flaunt.
Todd Huff: The Feeding Our Future scandal was one of the first welfare-related scams to rock Minnesota and helped shine a national spotlight on the massive fraud being perpetrated in the state under Walz’s watch. Amy Bach founded the nonprofit in 2016 to feed children in need, and the group had a rather modest annual budget of three to four million dollars. So I got to stop there because I looked at the time again. I'm in this deep today, and I'm losing track of time. Friends, you know, one of the biggest challenges that we as conservatives have is finding ways to ensure our values align with the things that we do, the way that we live, that includes how we invest our money.
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Todd Huff: All of this, my friends, is absolutely remarkable. It is remarkable what we have been subjected to, what we have allowed to happen at the state government level, local government level, of course the federal level. This is blowing the top off of these scandals. The more you dig, the more you find. Now the question is, what are we going to do about it?
Todd Huff: Are these people going to be held accountable? Some of them already are. But are we going to hold everybody accountable? Not just the people at the lower levels, but the people who are actually allowing this to happen. Are we going to hold them accountable? Maybe they're not legally responsible, but shouldn't we at least hold them politically responsible and vote them out of office?
Todd Huff: If, in fact, they are responsible for these things, are we going to do that? I certainly hope so. It's required for us. This is part of our jobs as people who live in a free country. We have to hold our leadership accountable and make sure that they are not engaging at least in fraud. My goodness, we should be able to do that.
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Todd Huff: Okay. Don't have a lot of time left here and I am into this today. I'm just blown away even the more that I talk about this. Going back to the article at RedState, which again, these will be on our Stack of Stuff at the website ToddHuffShow.com. Just look for today's issue and you'll find these articles if you want to read more. When COVID-19 hit, it says Feeding Our Future experienced some serious mission creep. That's, of course, when you stray from your mission statement, what you're seeking to do, and you actually begin to add in other things. But they did that because the rules, the article says, were loosened.
Todd Huff: This was during COVID. And oversight was diminished, leading Bach to allow sponsors in her network to submit claims without normal verification. Here's what happened. As executive director of Feeding Our Future, Bach approved meal sites, some of which were fake. Fake meal sites. Then certified the claims, signing off on the reimbursements from the Minnesota Department of Education. She would soon preside over a network that claimed to have served 91 million meals, for which prosecutors say scammers fraudulently received nearly $250 million in federal funds.
Todd Huff: A scale of growth that far outpaced the nation’s pre-pandemic size and internal capacity. Remember, this was an organization that was doing what was a three to four million dollar annual budget to feed children. Now they're doing during COVID or after COVID, $250 million. And later filings and sentencing releases describe the total impact as closer to $300 million. Attorney General Pam Bondi has suggested it may reach $400 million. Wild, wild stuff. I think I got those numbers confused with the Minnesota numbers for the daycare and childcare fraud.
Todd Huff: I believe that might have been several billion. I want to say nine billion. I don't know. We don't know. The information is still coming through on this. Look, all this is to say, I don't know to what level, if any, Tim Walz was involved. I think minimally you could say, for this to happen in the government of your state while you are the governor of the state, I mean, listen, that's pretty damning. That doesn't mean that you necessarily were directly involved.
Todd Huff: But how do you lose track of billions of dollars that are being spent on things that aren't real? How does that happen? At best, at best, you're simply inept. At worst, at worst, you could be actually, at least logically anyway, this is the other possibility, you're part of the criminal enterprise. Could be anywhere in between there. But there's no good explanation for this for Tim Walz. And he was almost, my friends, I know in one respect they lost the election pretty handily.
Todd Huff: But in another sense, it wasn't that far off. When you think a few states here and there could have flipped the 2024 election, he could very well be our Vice President of the United States right now, and we wouldn't know any of this. None of this. We wouldn't. I don't know. Maybe Nick Shirley, he still would have done his job. But they would have silenced him. Who knows what would have happened then?
Todd Huff: My friends, but anyway, I'm out of time. Gotta run. Thanks for listening. SDG.
