Upper Midwest American Indian Center Reports & Reviews

Upper Midwest American Indian Center Reports & Reviews (1)

Victim Location 55411
Type of a scam Charity

I worked for this nonprofit/charity organization for only 28 days and was asked to do illegal unethical and fraudulent paperwork on licensing records to make it appear like all of the paperwork was done prior to the license for the foster care home was issued. The executive director has been there for 30 years and is the one who instructed me to white out dates, make copies and type rate dates in prior to the foster care license issuing date and then destroy the originals. She also asked me to sign other social workers names and foster care parent signatures where they were missing and I would not do any of these “work “tasks that were part of a corrective order issued by the state of Minnesota which would be the department of health and human services (MN DHS) Who held UMAIC’s license to be able to license foster care homes that focused on American Indian families. I was also asked to fill out my parents paperwork and forge their names and I denied all of this work and reported it to the state. I had some Personal documents stolen out of my office and when we had the revocation hearing with the Minnesota Attorney General’s office the executive Director tried to introduce my documents that contained social Security numbers birth certificates bank statements etc. I kept this all in a brief and forgot it in my office one evening in which I believe either the Director or the janitor went into my office and dug through it and made copies of these documents. She tried to say that I did this on work time in which I did not I carried stuff on me that pertain to whatever I had going on at the time for example applying for housing in the Minneapolis St. Paul area. She also spoke about all of the employees personal issues or things going on in their lives and even previous employees. She lied to the state investigators saying that it was the employees fault and that she would correct all of the issues. My coworker and I informed her that altering documents like this which are state and federal legal documents is illegal and she stated that this is what the state of Minnesota was asking her to do. We then asked her to show us the “correction order” from the state of Minnesota and she could not produce it for us. However we found the documents online which is public information in which I will provide you the website to. We also found several grants that she wrote in for her in which she received $50,000 plus from specific agencies or the state of Minnesota or the federal government also some of the tribes throughout Minnesota. One year she received $100,000 grant from the Sioux reservation in southern Minnesota. We have been researching her public form 990s for taxes and have a lot of questions as to the possibility of fraud and missallocation of funds. She has a contract with I believe Hennepin County in Minneapolis where she receives the administration fee portion of all of the foster care children. She also claims that there is a mental health department in which we do not have a mental health department and everybody that has been employed there the last 4 to 5 years has done nothing but “ correct the books“ which basically we believe is altering documents to make them appear legal because we suspect that she was issuing the license and billing the state or county for these children and receiving the funds when she wasn’t supposed to be. When she learned that we found out that this was public information she got extremely angry at us so my coworker and I wrote up a letter to her stating that we would not do anything illegal or unethical. The very next day I got fired. We are still in the process of researching out the finances and even reached out to the Minnesota BCA and the local field office for the FBI but because we don’t have everything together yet they won’t launch a case. Law enforcement is the only entity that can get an order from a judge to go into this agency and perform forensic accounting. There is a group of us former employees that have strong feelings that she is embezzling money through this agency. Throughout the 30 years she has been there and they have had schools and Headstart programs closed down and we have not been able to find out the reasons for that yet. However she went to court in December 2021 and represented her self and the judge came out with his order which was for permanent revocation of their license in February 2022. This was a huge victory for us however she is back at it again stating that she is operating a mental health care program in which we called and acted as if we needed services and part of the criteria was that we needed a diagnostic assessment which is something that is performed in a standard routine with the DSM 5 in the behavioral at mental health therapy. There are no license counselors there and in fact she said the only social worker that is there is her granddaughter who cannot pass a legal background check so they have her in as an independent contractor. Upon looking at their taxes you can see hundreds of thousands of dollars that go towards the Director for many different reasons and justifications for costs. When the ECFE program closed the director acquired the school van and uses it now personally for her own personal use. She also received a Covid relief grant in which she was supposed to supply workers with office equipment and necessary to work at home and she never used that grant for what it was meant for and made all of the employees come in and report to work in their offices even when the governor ordered quarantine and for many agencies to work from home. So right there she had a grant that she got 50 or $55,000 for it and she did not use it for what it was meant for. My coworker is also going to write into this website as well and we have several several documents that we would be happy to forward to anybody that would work with us upon our reporting. Here is the states website that shows the citation orders and the fines for the program because the Director would not and refused to do things the way the state outline them to be:

https://licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us/Details.aspx?l=830950

Also here is the court order that came out for the license revocation from the state of Minnesota.

https://mn.gov/oah/assets/1800-37591-appeal-american-indian-center-authorization...⇄ />
There are several of us previous employees that have gotten together and continue to remain in contact over the situation. My coworker and I they got terminated because we spoke up was able to retain an employee lawyer and are taking them to court to sue them for discrimination as well as whistleblower and wrongful termination. So if anybody decides to investigate this case from the BBC there are plenty of us that would gladly cooperate and what we’ve experienced! Please get back to me if at all possible!

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