Rep. Pete Stauber Compares Gov. Tim Walz to OJ Simpson on Fighting Fraud

Former professional hockey player Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., raised eyebrows Tuesday with a social media post referencing the Minnesota governor. Tim Waltz recent decision not to seek re-election but refusal to resign, with Walz pledging to address the state’s ongoing fraud problems.

Staub’s post compared Walz’s determination to fight fraudsters to the former’s infamous murder trial NFL player OJ Simpson, when Simpson vowed to find his wife’s killer after being acquitted of murdering his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

“Tim Walz staying in office to fight the fraudsters is like OJ saying he’ll look for the real killer. He should resign,” Stauber wrote.

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A spokesperson for Walz responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Stauber’s post.

“Lol, that’s not news!” the spokesperson said.

Although Simpson was acquitted in the 1994 case, he subsequently lost a civil trial related to those deaths. Simpson was found liable in civil court in 1997 and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages. Most of this judgment remained unpaid during Simpson’s lifetime.

Simpson died last April after a private battle with cancer. Towards the end of his life, he remained in Las Vegas and returned to the public eye on X, posting reactions to current events. Simpson’s estate took a key step toward paying Goldman’s family nearly $58 million, nearly three decades after Goldman won a wrongful death judgment in a civil case against Simpson, according to a November report. per TMZ.

Meanwhile, Walz has been the subject of immense national scrutiny since October. He ended his bid for an unprecedented third term amid harsh criticism from Republicans and some Democrats over his handling of his state’s massive welfare fraud scandal.

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However, Walz insisted Tuesday that he would not resign from his post and said passionately that he would remain in office to help fight the state fraudsters who potentially stole billions of dollars from taxpayers under his leadership.

“I’m not going anywhere. And you can make all your demands that I resign. On my corpse is this going to happen,” Walz said.

More than 90 people — most from Minnesota’s large Somali community — have been charged since 2022 in what has been described as the nation’s largest scheme of the COVID era. The amount of money that was stolen in suspected money laundering operations involving fraudulent meal and housing programs, child care and Medicaid services is still being calculated. But the U.S. attorney in Minnesota said the scale of the fraud could exceed $1 billion and that amount to 9 billion dollars.

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Prosecutors said some of the dozens of people who have already pleaded guilty in the case used the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, jewelry and international vacations, with some of the money also being sent abroad and potentially into the hands of Islamist terrorists.

“It’s on my watch, I’m responsible for it, and most importantly, I’m the one who’s going to fix it,” Walz told reporters last month, taking responsibility for the scandal.

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