It was going to house and feed everyone, no matter what the cost. And as usual, anyone who raised normal, everyday concerns about oversight or incentives was treated like a pariah.

Now, after all the rainbow-and-unicorn compassion promises, the whole thing is falling apart.

A whistleblower inside the state's SNAP-EBT system is alleging some really disturbing stuff that should make every taxpayer stop what they're doing and listen. The whistleblower claims billions that were poured into the migrant shelter system triggered fraud so widespread that even legit recipients are being left with nothing.

In just two fiscal years, Massachusetts spent nearly two billion dollars on its shelter system. Meanwhile, federal investigators and state auditors uncovered multi-million dollar fraud schemes tied directly to the public benefits. And now this whistleblower says that might only be the surface.

Apparently, this whistleblower is a mid-level employee inside the Department of Transitional Assistance, and they're going on the "record" with the Boston Herald. And honestly, what they're describing puts them in "Minneapolis" territory.

The whistleblower says the fraud spike tracks perfectly with the billions that were poured into the shelter system.

Boston Herald:

The billions spent on the state's wildly condemned right-to-shelter law triggered SNAP fraud so widespread it even left new migrants with empty EBT cards, a food stamp official tells the Herald.

This was pitched as some grand moral victory. Instead, it's a bunch of empty EBT cards and a system nobody seems to be watching.

Of course, the whistleblower tried to raise red flags and ran straight into a brick wall. The Boston Herald piece goes on.

DTA is a pretty big organization. I've tried to go through the proper channels to speak to supervisors and managers about patterns that are just as blatant as they can be and there's a lot of pressure to just sort of push things down and say, 'you know, they've got someone who does that. It's not your department, that's not your role.' That type of thing," said the whistleblower.