Commerce Department Turns Blind Eye to MVAC Fraud Causing Illness and Possible Cancer

This is a real-time example of how crimes are actively committed within Minnesota’s public services—and how those committing them are allowed to get away with it. The driving force behind this corruption is the refusal of Minnesota’s oversight agencies to respond to complaints or hold public service workers accountable for fraud and misconduct. In this instance, I filed a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and they failed to respond entirely. 


This is typical behavior. At this point, its like going through the motions to demonstrate to the public that the state of Minnesota literally has no regard for human life, adhering to the regulations of the programs from which the receive ridiculous amounts of tax-payer funding and no respect for the law. At this point its literally the live, public articles that will become memoirs and exposes on surviving the corruption of this god awful culture.


Is it "nice" that the agency receiving funding to prevent illness, injury, and death from utility disconnections is instead violating those very regulations—illegally forcing Minnesotans to have no heat or hot water from fall to winter "repeatedly" without ever processing applications resulting causing a two-year (and ongoing) internal infection, possibly linked to cancer? 


We cannot say with certainty that it is because of the prevailing racism within  Minnesota's largest non-profit  medical network, Alina Health, Inc. clinics and hospitals—and all this held intact by the complete lack of response from both the Minnesota Department of Commerce, where the program is housed, and the Office of African American Health a brand new funded office tasked with addressing these medically impactful disparities—even as the spotlight is on the state for a billion dollars in government housing fraud... is that nice? The answer is yes, it's Minnesota Nice. 


This is who they are—this states government its public workforce. If they weren't this you wouldn't be viewing the evidence. Monstrous—absolute, deadly monsters "capping" in your face claiming this is great place to live—even the colleges know better.



This complaint was completed and delivered to the following Department of Commerce board members.



[Your Full Name]

[Your Address]
[City, State, Zip Code]
[Email Address]
[Phone Number]

Date: [Insert Today’s Date]

To:
Minnesota Department of Commerce
Division of Energy Resources – Energy Assistance Program
85 7th Place East, Suite 280
Saint Paul, MN 55101


Subject: Formal Complaint Against Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) — Energy Assistance Program Misconduct, Denial of Services, and Systemic Discrimination

Dear Commerce Department Energy Assistance Division,

I am submitting this formal complaint regarding gross mishandling, denial of benefits, and what I believe to be targeted, discriminatory treatment by the Minnesota Valley Action Council (MVAC) in relation to my Energy Assistance Program (EAP) applications in 2023 and 2025.

Background & Timeline:

From August through December of 2023, I lived in a home that had no heat or hot water and was mold-infested due to previous flooding. I had applied in advance for energy assistance through MVAC and was fully eligible under the program guidelines. However, MVAC did not process or deny my application. Instead, they placed it in an “indefinite status”—leaving me without any recourse to reapply or seek help elsewhere.

I made multiple requests that MVAC either process or cancel the application so I could seek alternative assistance, but they refused. As a result, I was left without utilities for the entire winter, despite the Cold Weather Rule being in effect. This failure directly endangered my health and safety and violated both the spirit and the letter of the Energy Assistance Program’s protections.

To escape these conditions, I moved on December 5, 2023, into a building owned by Don Klyberg, a landlord with a record of serious housing violations in Minneapolis. The situation has since escalated into harassment and continued endangerment, made worse by a second denial of energy assistance by MVAC on March 6, 2025, despite another qualified application.


Current Crisis – 2025 Application Denial


I am now facing imminent utility disconnection due to MVAC’s latest denial of my application. I want it clearly on record that:

  • I applied on March 6, 2025, well before disconnection.
  • I was fully eligible and submitted the required documents.
  • MVAC again denied the application without valid cause, continuing a pattern of obstruction and harm.

Because of this, I am facing:

  • Loss of phone access (no connection to the outside world)
  • No refrigerator or stove (no access to food)
  • No lights
  • No heat


All of this while living in a unit with documented health and safety risks, and with a known sexual predator whose actions have been reported and ignored.


Systemic Pattern and Racial Discrimination


This is not a one-time oversight. The pattern of inaction and obstruction by MVAC reflects intentional misconduct and discriminatory treatment:

  1. I am a Black woman facing complete denial of protection and services that are regularly provided to white residents.
  2. MVAC’s decision to place my 2023 application in “indefinite” status, then later deny my 2025 application despite eligibility, is administrative abuse.
  3. This behavior has amplified the harm caused by unsafe housing, health discrimination, and poverty, which public agencies like MVAC are specifically funded to prevent.

Requested Action


I respectfully ask the Minnesota Department of Commerce to:

  1. Open a formal investigation into MVAC’s mishandling of both my 2023 and 2025 applications.
  2. Review MVAC’s practices for potential violations of EAP rules, particularly around due process, eligibility handling, and denial procedures.
  3. Examine whether discrimination played a role in their pattern of denial and refusal to provide services.
  4. Intervene immediately to prevent my utility disconnection while this complaint is under review.
  5. Provide guidance on how I may reapply or be reinstated to the program through an independent review, not MVAC.
  6. Notify all relevant oversight bodies—including HUD, MDHR, and the Attorney General’s Office—about these patterns of harm and possible civil rights violations.

Conclusion


The Energy Assistance Program exists to prevent exactly this kind of harm. MVAC’s misuse of their role has left me in danger, worsened my health, and deepened my vulnerability. The system is not functioning as designed, and I am requesting your agency’s immediate intervention and accountability measures.

Sincerely,


[Your Full Name]



These applications are usually processed within one weeks time as they're meant to prevent urgent disconnection. At maximum one month. This screenshot demonstrates three months without processing.


This screenshot demonstrates that a March 2025 application—informally denied the same day it was submitted, March 6, 2025—was kept active in the state’s electronic system to prevent reapplication and appeal throughout March, April, and, as the screenshot shows, into May. This action effectively "forced" a disconnection that could result in my hospitalization or death, despite the fact that I am 100% qualified for energy assistance, funds are available, and my application was never actually processed.


Purely as a racial attack, MVAC—who receives taxpayer dollars—has refused to process every submitted energy assistance applications since 2023, with no legal jurisdiction to do so. After they deny applications informally—reporting by text message, email, and phone call that they refuse to process the application in the electronic system—if I don't perform degrading, racist salve antic and beg like a dog for the entertainment of the MVAC workforce, they leave the applications marked as "processing" in the state’s system. This makes reapplication and appeal impossible during a crisis of disconnection.


Just as the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been doing for decades, MVAC is yet another taxpayer-funded public service collecting funds for a specific purpose and refusing to dispense those funds to the qualified applicants. They're not concerned because the world's eyes are not turned to government fraud in Minnesota.


Why? Because they're white—not Somali, like the companies the media is bringing to the public. As you see here with these white criminals vs. the Somali's you're seeing all over YouTube and the television—they're whiteness is going to protect them from scrutiny and enduring correction. So, they're very arrogant and make no legitimate attempts to conceal their criminal, discriminatory, injurious conduct.


I'm going to keep screaming this: neither the media nor the U.S. Attorney General—who is allegedly cracking down on this fraud—has named the employees inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services who approved these contracts, signed off on the paperwork, and issued payment to these so-called "fraudulent" Family Stabilization programs.


Why? Because in Minnesota’s culture, it’s not considered fraud unless you get caught—and even then you're not going to get caught unless the state needs a media distraction or a flashy headline about “cracking down.” These programs aren’t just fraudulent—they’re kickbacks for silence. They’re rewards for not exposing the rampant corruption embedded across Minnesota’s public service systems.


And I’m going to keep screaming this too: the media still hasn’t brought the victims of this fraud to the microphone to speak their piece. Because when they do, they’ll all say the same thing:


“I reported the fraud—and the government looked away.”


The MVAC situation is exactly why I keep raising my voice about two critical truths: Family Stabilization is a smokescreen, and fraud is embedded in the culture of Minnesota’s public services. This isn’t a one-off issue—it’s systemic, and it will continue unless the criminals inside Minnesota’s government are held accountable, and the victims are heard directly, in their own words.


They’re not just blocking sick Minnesotans from receiving care—they’re actively making Minnesotans sick and expanding the severity of illness by refusing to adhere to regulation and refusing to hold criminals accountable when regulation violations are reported. And then they have the audacity to demand more of your tax dollars to expand programs that are already completely corrupt.


It’s not just one agency. It’s not just one program. It’s all of them. It’s all of Minnesota’s public service systems.


Here MVAC stated they denied me solely because I am enrolled in the Address Confidentiality Program. It not up to their discretion to dictate where I apply. Those are my rights and my power which they have no control over. They were completely illegal when they terminated my application because I filed it online. 

 

A racist employee at MVAC took it upon themselves to act outside the law and cancel my application—telling me not to file through the state system, that's discrimination. They cannot reject my application because I applied online like everyone else. That is not a jurisdiction they have any legal authority to control—they're welcomed to suggest. They're not legally or racially entitled to alter, delay, disqualify, deny or require reapplication. And they didn't deny my application in the system despite informally denying it in the office two months prior.

These are vicious attacks of Legal Abuse and it is through hundreds and thousands of these attacks against the same household, while regulators look away at best, that Minnesota achieves a 90% racial wealth gap while appearing to be a clean, liberal, charitable state. These aren't your AOC democrats. These are Roger B. Taney's democrats. This is the party that was always against an end captivity, slave labor and racial equality. They operate in Plausible deniability. They have convinced the world that they are good guys by pointing to the radical element within the republican base and comparing what the two parties look like but its the crimes they're committing while they believe no one is looking that makes thee most deadly political party this nation has ever had and I'm so tired of the charade.


I chose to file my application through the state system in order to hold the State of Minnesota accountable. If I had filed directly through a vile, racist organization like MVAC, there would be no record of my application at all—because they routinely terminate applications without processing them, and create rules that apply only to me. This is how systemic racism operates in Minnesota’s public services.


I am sick. I do not have to do extra. I do not have to restart or beg again simply because a racist white Minnesotan didn’t get the opportunity to order me around like a slave—for something I already took the initiative to complete.

I have applied for and received this benefit in Minnesota without any problem since the 1990s. 


I do not need instructions. I do not owe anyone a “personal tax” in the form of humiliation, degradation, fraudulent delays, fraudulent disqualifications, or fraudulent denials.


All I am required to do is follow program regulations—and have my personal boundaries respected.


This is outright fraud and racial discrimination. I have been sick every single day since August 2023 because of it. It is very likely that this systemic neglect and abuse has caused me to contract cancer. And as soon as I confirm what this illness is, I am suing the hell out of MVAC and the State of Minnesota for this injurious fraud—which you are now seeing proof of in real time.

Related: The Minnesota Department of Commerce Is Enabling Public Service Fraud — And Ignoring Victims

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