Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said he was "just as frustrated as you are" in how government corruption seems to go unpunished in a recent discussion on James T. Harris's Conservative Circus radio show.
In a post to X, Rep. Biggs posted a clip of the audio, captioned, "My constituents ask me all the time when corrupt criminals in our political system will be arrested. Believe me—I'm just as frustrated as you. We must not stop chasing accountability until these criminals are perp walked in front of the American people."
In the clip, Harris asks whether anyone will be held to account, and Rep. Biggs jokingly replies, "next question," much to Harris's amusement.
Giving a serious answer, the Arizona congressman noted that "we have seen some indictments over the fraud. There have been 100 people indicted, most of them convicted already. 90% of them Somalis from the Somali community up there."
According to a White House presser from early January, 98 defendants, 85 of them Somali, have been indicted for their role in the scandal, and 64 have been convicted. The number has not yet been updated.
"But the ringleaders, the people who know about this that are being thrown into this," Biggs emphasized. "Hopefully Governor [Tim] Walz and AG [Keith] Ellison, and then you have got that on that side," he added, suggesting Walz and Ellison should face accountability for their possible role in the fraud scandal.
Nevertheless, the Arizona congressman noted, "We could talk all about the weird stuff going on in Minnesota, but people have got to walk."
Biggs described a recent visit to the White House where he and other members of Congress questioned, "'When is somebody going to jail? One of these leaders of this bad stuff, when are they going to jail?' We are just as frustrated as you are."
