A former Minnesota state trooper alleged this week that his bosses at the state Department of Human Services tried to bully him into quashing his findings of fraud in the state’s child care funding program. Jay Swanson, a former criminal investigator for the DHS, also revealed that it was well known among Somali refugees in East Africa that Minnesota was the best place to go in the US to pull off child care fraud schemes. And then, Gov. Tim Walz came into office — and Swanson’s entire department investigating waste, fraud and abuse was eliminated, according to Republican lawmakers. Swanson revealed that it was known among Somali refugees that Minnesota was the best place in the US to pull off child care fraud schemes. Minnesota House oversight hearing The allegations, which came out Tuesday at a hearing for the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, contradict Walz’s new “tough on fraud” stance after the FBI raided multiple daycares in the state.…