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When Systems Fail: My Experience with Minnesota Valley Action Council and the Consequences of Neglect and Abuse
From August through December of 2023, I lived in a freezing, mold-infested house in Minnesota—without heat or hot water. I had applied early and qualified for energy assistance through the Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC). But instead of approving or even officially denying my application, MVAC left it in “indefinite status.” I repeatedly asked them to either process or cancel it so I could reapply elsewhere, but they refused to act. This administrative purgatory left me to endure the full brunt of Minnesota’s brutal winter with no basic utilities—all while the Cold Weather Rule, meant to protect people like me, was in effect.This wasn’t just a bureaucratic mishap. It was cruelty with consequences.
My home had basement mold from previous flooding, making the unheated environment even more dangerous to my health. Desperate to escape, I moved on December 5, 2023—only to land in another nightmare: a slumlord-owned building where the abuse escalated.
The new property is owned by Don Klyberg, a landlord who had previously been shut down in Minneapolis due to the severity of his housing violations. He simply migrated to a new jurisdiction and continued business as usual. Here, I’ve been subject to relentless sexual harassment from his property manager Rick Newmann, someone who may have also been a former tenant. The abuse is well known to Klyberg and—shockingly—ignored or covered up by the city inspector, city attorney, police, and other local officials. The inaction appears racially motivated, as protections and enforcement have been denied to me while others remain shielded.
This isn’t just a housing crisis. It’s a public health disaster. It’s systemic racism. It’s institutional neglect.
In the months since, I’ve suffered health consequences that are now life-threatening. What appeared to be a cancerous lesion developed on my foot about a year ago. But accessing care has been impossible. Local clinics and hospitals have engaged in what I believe to be fraudulent billing, charging me an ambulance cost and forcing me out unable to ambulate as if it was not an emergency when it was—police were going to carry me in my house because I could barely walk. I stopped them knowing it could lead to further spinal injury. Since This type of routine systematic abuse already lead to spinal damage which I had to literally escape the state to get surgery for but you can read more on that in the website and expose attached to this letter.
I stayed dressed after that appointment and took more than the dosage of over-the-counter pain medication to get down the steps and to the clinic. Then crawled around my house nearly two weeks after that — because there is no recourse when they're all involved.
“Minnesota,” through its public programs and institutions, is killing Minnesotans with SREM and IJD, while those in power look away—allowing employees to commit these criminal acts and then dismissing the victims’ injuries as “low-income problems.”
I would have more income if the racism within Minnesota’s government weren’t actively trying to destroy me every day, and if regulatory agencies actually enforced the law instead of protecting the criminals—who are 99.99% white—while targeting me because I am Black.
During clinical and hospital visits, Medicaid was fraudulently billed for care I never received. At one hospital, my HIPAA rights were violated; at another, documents were falsified; while at yet another medical relationship—Gykayla Curtis creates fraudulent records to make it seem like she doesn't know what is happening in Don Klyberg's property when its all we talk about and she's seen it in virtual therapy for most of 2024 to conceal she never reported sexual harassment and injurious retaliation against a vulnerable adult. I have the audio recordings and records to prove these things.
Now, since last Friday, I’ve experienced sharp pain in my breast since late April—possibly another cancer symptom.
When I finally succeeded in removing my name from Allina Health’s system—where false records were being used to block and deny me treatment—I was still confronted by a medical system that already fails and violates Black women, even without a thousand false entries to fight through. Instead of providing care, providers expect patients like me to argue against knowingly inaccurate records just to access basic treatment. Most aren’t offering care at all—they simply read the last note and add to it, without any consultation, evaluation, or proper medical exam. They act more like Minnesota Department of Human Services welfare workers than actual doctors. This is not happening to white patients the way its happening to black patients. The media regularly reports on the outcomes of this reality but no one is talking to the victims to learn how its happening and as result solutions are impossible—Minnesota chronically silences victims of color in all its government agencies and institutions and that makes solutions for them impossible white Minnesotan's narratives are always front and center when they are victims and therefore resolutions are possible for them—it creates a 90% racial wealth gap when one population is protected by the law and the other is not. It's intentional.
I was able to briefly get real surgical intervention out of state. With some care, I regained enough health to return to work for the first time in years since Minnesota forced me out through this same before by year four of the onset of my condition Chiari Malformation in 2003. All those years until 2021 I was intentionally and systematically being kept from working which medical treatment would have enabled me to do and had to flee my home state to prove it because "every level of government" failed to respond. Since returning, because Minnesota took everything I have including my HCV (illegally) as a consequence for me seeking that surgical treatment—therefore forcing me to flee sex traffickers I encountered as a symptom of homelessness which I would never be exposed to if an entire federal fraud which; like everything else is REPORTED and there is proof online but there has been no timely response by HUD despite multiple complaints filed within a victims timeline. Hints why have been publishing books since 2023—because I am not dead but the lack of law enforcement regulators are applying to habitual crime by Minnesota's public workers would make it appear as though I am.
I'm not going quiet and I'm not going privately. I am happy to print as many identities and agencies and actions as possible before my last death (there's been six during this American Terror already) as possible. I have no love left for what this culture is. Its history, its expectations of me, and the consequences I face for refusing to comply with its unwritten codes have all become unbearable. I understand that I have a birthright to life, and I will not cooperate with any system that requires me to act or behave in ways my ancestors fought wars to free me from.
As a devout Christian, it is my religious duty to resist such oppression. Persecute me if you will. Martyr me if you must. God has allowed me to prove that I can take these injustices with me when I die—their entire bloodlines, unto forever, I take with me when I die—if I cannot have peace and freedom in this life and I am going to hunt these people's bloodline for all eternity because they don't have a write to take my life, my health, my generations from me but its what they're doing in plain sight and there is no intervention. I seek peace and justice now through the immediate cease and desist of crimes committed against me, the restoration of my name and reputation, and a cash settlement for what I have endured. Justice is impossible—half my life has been stolen, and my future, along with what I can achieve in it, has been irreversibly shortened but cease and atonement are possible. If I don't get peace in this life, I'll be back to collect it from all of there. Honestly.
May God Almighty, who has kept me alive thus far through it all, bless me and lift me up in eternity for my consistent walk, put on the curses on everything touching these people for seventy years after my body passes away, for their actions or inactions which touched me—the innocent one. May everything owed to me, according to God’s plan for me, be returned to me, whether in life or afterlife. I do not surrender my birthright to live my life without their influence or bondage—not ever.
Since being forced to return to the abuse I escaped, the recovery I made is long gone. I look as I did when they last had me, and my conditions are worse than they have ever been. May all the world see it. May they see who perpetrated it. May they see who allowed it. May it never lift from the reputation of the state of “Cloudy Water.” May remembrance of this long abuse remain the dark cloud above, as the violation of Dakota remains the cloudy water below. I demand atonement, and I am not about to beg criminals for it. On March 6, 2025, I applied again for energy assistance through MVAC. I was again denied, despite being fully qualified. Now, I’m facing imminent utility disconnection. That means:
- No phone access to the outside world
- No refrigerator or stove—no food
- No lights
- No heat
All of this while living with a known predator, in a roach-infested apartment, with worsening health, and no support from any local authority. This isn’t just unfair—it’s life-threatening.
Why I’m Speaking Out
What I’ve endured should never happen to anyone. This is more than just administrative failure—it’s targeted negligence, possible fraud, and systemic abuse, all happening in full view of those who are supposed to protect vulnerable people. I am speaking out not only to seek justice for myself but to shed light on the widespread failures in our housing, energy assistance, and medical systems.To anyone reading this: if you’ve faced something similar, you are not alone. And to those in power: your silence and inaction have a cost. I am living proof.
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