Successful receipt of fraud report by Attorney General Keith Ellison on May 5, 2025, at 4:01 PM.
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MVAC Exhibit No. 1
Here you can see that my qualified application was filed on March 6, 2025, but MVAC cancelled it first thing in the morning. They have not disqualified me from assistance — they have cancelled the application without processing it. This means that, in effect, no application for assistance exists on record, even though I submitted one.
I have the right to file my application through any means I determine is best for me, and no energy assistance agency has legal authority to dictate where I must submit it. Yet this time, MVAC criminally cancelled my application solely because they do not believe I should file on the state website. That is not a legal reason to deny or cancel an application, and it is unlawful to reject it based on their personal opinion about how I choose to submit it.
"I think" — and it is "my right "— to file through the state’s official website because it is the only way to have systematic proof that an application was submitted, when it was submitted, and what it included.
If I submitted directly to Minnesota Valley Action Council, there would be no transparent evidence of criminality — they could simply claim an application was never received, was unqualified, or was missing information.
By submitting through the Minnesota Department of Commerce's official platform, my application becomes part of the official record. The submission, timestamp, and contents are all visible to the oversight agency — The Minnesota Department of Commerce.
Just because I know this can be confusing to someone who doesn’t understand what is actually being done here, let me paint a comparable visual:
This is like applying for a job, and an employee at the company throws the application in the trash—without the hiring department ever knowing the application was submitted.
Since the 1990s, I have used the State of Minnesota Energy Assistance Program and have never experienced obstruction of a single application in any county—except Brown County, where every application since 2023 has been obstructed.
- I did not receive energy assistance in 2023, despite being qualified for the program and successfully completing an application.
- I did not receive energy assistance in 2024, despite being qualified for the program and successfully completing an application.
- I did not receive energy assistance in 2025, despite being qualified for the program and successfully completing an application.
- Most importantly, in each of those years, I faced life-threatening disconnections as a severely disabled and isolated Minnesotan.
In 2023, Minnesota Valley Action Council’s criminal behavior left me in a mold-infested home, from the cold Minnesota fall through the subzero winter, without any hot water or heat—in a state that has a Cold Weather Rule because temperatures are so dangerous, not to mention the mold caused by flooding.
It was only by moving that I gained access to hot water and heat. But by that point, my lungs were already severely damaged. I have not had a single day of wellness since fall 2023 because of this.
It now appears I’ve been given cancer as a result of the criminal fraud committed by Minnesota Valley Action Council, and no one in the state has responded to two years of formal complaints.
MVAC Exhibit No. 2
As of now, two months after I submitted my application through the state website, the state system still shows:
“Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc. is the local assistance office and is currently processing your application.”
However, this is not true. The day after I submitted the application, Emily, an employee of Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc., contacted me via text message and stated that she had cancelled the application and refused to process my Energy Assistance Program (EAP) application. When an application appears to be “processing” in the local EAP system, the applicant is blocked from taking any further action:
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You cannot refile.
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You cannot appeal.
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You cannot get help to avoid a life-threatening utility disconnection.
In this case, no formal denial has been issued, which means the application is held in limbo — not accepted, not denied, and intentionally unresolved. This deliberately prevents the applicant from exercising any rights under the program, including reapplying or appealing, forcing the applicant to experience life threatening utility disconnection, without any legal recourse.
It also blocks monthly utility adjustments based on income, even though the program has received taxpayer funding to perform this exact function. In effect, MVAC has stolen the tax-payer funding without releasing them to qualified applicants when applications are filed, which is not only fraud — but a common modus operandi of committing fraud by Minnesota government offices and institutions. So, for any oversight agency to receive report of these common red flags and not look into is a red flag of complicity by that oversight agency.
In the Twin Cities metro area, EAP applications are often processed and paid within 1–2 weeks. Elsewhere in Minnesota, processing can take up to 30 days, but still within the legal time frame Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc. has already demonstrated that they can process applications in under 24 hours — in fact, they issued a cancellation letter to me within a single day. Yet here, more than 60 days later, my application is still marked as “unprocessed” in the state system. There is no resolution, no payout, and no response. In 2023, MVAC also kept my application in unprocessed status for six months, which directly resulted in long-term illness that may be life-threatening.
[Your Full Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State, Zip Code]
[Email Address]
[Phone Number]
Date: [Insert Today’s Date]
To:
Office of the Minnesota Attorney General
445 Minnesota Street, Suite 1400
St. Paul, MN 55101-2131
Subject: Formal Complaint Against Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) for Fraud, Neglect, and Systemic Abuse
Dear Attorney General Ellison,
I am filing this formal complaint to report fraud, administrative abuse, systemic neglect, and racially discriminatory treatment by the Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) and other actors directly or indirectly involved in worsening my life-threatening situation in Minnesota from August 2023 to the present.
From August through December 2023, I was left without heat or hot water while living in a mold-infested home. I had applied early and was fully qualified for energy assistance through MVAC. Rather than approve or deny the application, they placed it in “indefinite status”. Despite my repeated requests to either process or cancel the application so that I could reapply, they refused. This kept me trapped through the brutal Minnesota winter in violation of the Cold Weather Rule.
This was not a mistake—it was a targeted, administrative act of cruelty with severe consequences.
Due to prior flooding, the house had toxic mold in the basement. The unheated, hazardous conditions were not only unsafe but directly contributed to my deteriorating health. I had no choice but to flee on December 5, 2023, but instead of escaping harm, I was forced into a slum owned by Don Klyberg—a landlord previously shut down in Minneapolis who simply relocated and continued business. In this new property, I have been subject to ongoing sexual harassment by Rick Newmann, Klyberg’s property manager and likely former tenant.
Despite numerous complaints, city officials, inspectors, the city attorney, and police have ignored or covered up this abuse. Their lack of action appears to be racially motivated, as I—being a Black woman—have been left without protection, dignity, or legal support.
I now live in a roach-infested apartment, with no food storage, no heat, no safe access to a phone line, and am once again facing utility disconnection—as of my most recent March 6, 2025 application to MVAC, which they again fraudulently denied, despite my qualification.
In addition to housing abuse, I have faced medical neglect, fraud, and systemic obstruction:
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I was charged nearly $4,000 for an ambulance despite not receiving emergency care.
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Medicaid was also billed fraudulently for care I did not receive.
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At one hospital, my HIPAA rights were violated, and I have audio evidence.
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At another clinic, documents were falsified—and I have proof.
These medical denials and billing practices are a known tactic in racially discriminatory care, especially in Alina Health clinics, where Black patients are frequently denied emergency classification so that insurance won’t pay, and the patient is billed directly. This happened to me when I could barely walk, and police offered to carry me—which I declined out of fear of further injury. This is not speculation; this is lived experience and documented evidence.
Since then, I have developed a potentially cancerous lesion on my foot and now suffer from sharp, persistent pain in my breast since late April 2025. Because of false records in Alina’s system, I was previously blocked from receiving medical care across Minnesota. I eventually had to flee the state to get proper surgery. Only after removing myself from their system entirely was I able to briefly access real care, recover some strength, and return to work for the first time since being pushed out of Minnesota’s workforce in 2007 due to untreated Chiari Malformation—a condition I had been reporting for years.
Minnesota has not only failed to support my recovery—it has actively sabotaged it. Since returning to the state, I’ve been re-exposed to the same systems of abuse, racism, and fraud, and stripped of every resource I once had, including housing choice vouchers and basic human safety. Agencies are refusing to enforce regulations, because the violators are 99.99% white and I am not.
Every level of this state’s governance—from MVAC to HUD to city inspectors to hospitals and clinics—has participated in or ignored this abuse. And there has been no meaningful or timely intervention despite repeated documentation, complaints, and legal filings. I have published books and an expose documenting these experiences and naming the individuals and institutions involved. These documents are attached for your review.
This is a state-enabled system of racist obstruction, economic destruction, and medical neglect.
Now, I live with no safety, no health security, no medical care, and no access to justice. My reputation, records, and physical body have been violated by public programs that exist to serve—yet they have only persecuted.
My Demands:
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A full investigation into MVAC’s fraudulent practices, especially the use of “indefinite status” to deny legal energy assistance.
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An audit of the fraudulent medical charges and Medicaid billing in my name.
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Legal review of HIPAA violations and document falsification by Alina Health and associated clinics.
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Investigation of Don Klyberg, Rick Newmann, and the enabling role of local officials.
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Immediate protection from utility disconnection while this complaint is under review.
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A full civil rights investigation into systemic racial abuse by Minnesota agencies.
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Restoration of all benefits, vouchers, and medical access wrongfully taken.
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Financial restitution for the health, income, and life lost due to state inaction.
I am not submitting this quietly or privately. I have survived this long because of my faith in God and my refusal to be erased. If no justice is given, I will continue to expose these abuses publicly, through every platform available to me. Minnesota must be held accountable for what it has done—and continues to do—to me and to others like me.
Sincerely,
[Your Full Name]
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