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Fake Day Care Centers, a Magnet for Scammers, Media & Politicians Silent in Fraudesota · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal has exploded, and now the FBI
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Director Cash Ptel is confirming that the FBI has surged
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle the large
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs, describing the current events
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: as just a tip of a very large iceberg. The
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: new claim is hundreds of millions in fake daycares, your
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars going to these centers, all of this being
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  Speaker 1: exposed by a twenty three year old YouTuber who did
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  Speaker 1: the job that no one in the media was willing
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  Speaker 1: to do. Now, the Bureau says that it has identified
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  Speaker 1: and dismantled a two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud
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  Speaker 1: scheme tied to federal food aid programs, leading to seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight indictments and fifty seven convictions. Caspertel also stated that
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  Speaker 1: some convicted fraudsters are being referred for denaturalization and deportation
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  Speaker 1: proceedings where eligible, signaling serious legal consequences beyond prison sentences,
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  Speaker 1: and the broader scope of the fraud is now being exposed.
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  Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors are now estimating the fraud across multiple programs
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota alone will total into the billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 1: with part of the spotlight falling on social services, childcare assistance,
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  Speaker 1: healthcare billing, and nutrition programs. In other words, if there
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  Speaker 1: was a government program, it was being abused by the fraudsters.
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  Speaker 1: Now the FBI is continuing, they say, an ongoing investigation
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  Speaker 1: and their expectations for more prosecutions and potential recoveries of
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  Speaker 1: misused tax payer funds. National figures including Elon Musk and
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  Speaker 1: political leaders such as JD Vance and Representative Tom Emmer
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  Speaker 1: have amplified the incredible undercover video that exposed all of this,
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  Speaker 1: pushing for accountability and broader investigations into alleged misuse of
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer funds. And it may not just be Minnesota where
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  Speaker 1: the corruption is. Now we're saying that others are coming
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  Speaker 1: forward and saying it could be happening in other states. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how did we get to this point? Well, an independent journalist,
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  Speaker 1: a hero by the name of Nick Shirley posted a
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  Speaker 1: forty two minute investigative video on social media showing visits
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  Speaker 1: to multiple licensed childcare centers that allegedly received millions and
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars in public funding, meaning taxpayer dollars but
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  Speaker 1: were empty or inactive, or wouldn't even answer a question
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  Speaker 1: on how he could enroll his son in daycare, including
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  Speaker 1: the Minneapolis Quality Learning Center and one lightly shared scene,
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  Speaker 1: Shirley highlighted that one center received roughly one point nine
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  Speaker 1: million alone in twenty twenty five from the Minnesota Childcare
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  Speaker 1: Assistance Program, despite no children or activity being a parent
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  Speaker 1: at the site during daytime visits. Shirley's video claims that
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred and ten million in questionable payments were
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  Speaker 1: documented in a single day of investigating, and that is
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  Speaker 1: where the video went viral, garnering tens of millions of
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  Speaker 1: views and sparking national outrage, particularly among conservatives and political
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  Speaker 1: figures who share this footage saying it's time to clean house,
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  Speaker 1: which brings us to cash Ptel. Now, when something like
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  Speaker 1: this gets exposed, we're learning very quickly that the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is willing to do what others were unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: do in the Biden administration and what Democrats are unwilling
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  Speaker 1: to do on their own in Minnesota. Here's more of
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  Speaker 1: how Fox News covered it earlier.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back everybody. FBI director Cash Mattel responding to
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  Speaker 2: a viral video that has raised even more concerns about
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota's massive fraud scandal. The video showing misspelled signs, locked doors,
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  Speaker 2: empty classrooms even at a Minneapolis daycare center. Now the
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  Speaker 2: state allegedly is also given the center millions in funding.
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  Speaker 2: Connor Hansen Live in New York City was the latest
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  Speaker 2: on that for us Hey, Connor.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Kevin Well. For years now, there have been allegations
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  Speaker 3: of widespread fraud and investigations in Minnesota, but now there's
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  Speaker 3: even more scrutiny following a new video that's gone viral
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  Speaker 3: coming from an independent journalist visiting daycare centers in the
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  Speaker 3: state that are receiving millions, apparently in tax dollars, with
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  Speaker 3: no signs of children there.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look.
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  Speaker 5: Can I put my son into daycare here?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 5: No, don't. Can I speak to someone?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would like to see if I can put
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  Speaker 3: my son Joey here now. Twenty three year old journalist
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  Speaker 3: Nick Shirley visited one business that couldn't even spell its
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  Speaker 3: name correctly, with a sign saying leering center instead of learning.
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  Speaker 3: Some had blackedout windows, and most had no signs of
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  Speaker 3: children there. On a Weekday, the viral video sparking a
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  Speaker 3: strong reaction from Vice President jd Vance, who wrote, politicians
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  Speaker 3: like it because they get power. Welfare cheats like it
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  Speaker 3: because they get rich. But it's a zero sum game
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  Speaker 3: and they're stealing both money and political power from Minnesota's
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  Speaker 3: Earlier this month, Minnesota's assistant US attorney said fraud involving
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  Speaker 3: medicaid services likely reached more than nine billion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Fraud is not small, It isn't isolated. The magnitude cannot
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  Speaker 5: be overstated. It's a staggering, industrial scale fraud.
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  Speaker 3: The Eye director Cash Pattel just posted on x saying
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  Speaker 3: that might just be the tip of the iceberg. Despite
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  Speaker 3: mounting criticism aimed at him from the White House and others.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Tim Walls has blamed Republicans for the lack of
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  Speaker 3: a solution.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody in the legislature on the Republican side is interested
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  Speaker 7: in solving this. Mike God, it would be the worst
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  Speaker 7: thing in the world for them if this is solved
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  Speaker 7: like we're doing it here early this year, because then
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  Speaker 7: what are they going to run on?
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  Speaker 3: And we've reached down to Governor Wallace for comment on
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  Speaker 3: that video. No response so far. Cash Battel also warning
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  Speaker 3: that possible denaturalization and deportation proceedings could come from this.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exactly why the FBI Director Cash Battel
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  Speaker 1: not only came out but recognized that the ongoing fraud
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  Speaker 1: scandal and folding in Minnesota involving these childcare centers, saying
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  Speaker 1: it is a top priority of the FBI. This video
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  Speaker 1: all from a journalist on YouTube, Nick Shirley, going viral
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend because he did what the media refused
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  Speaker 1: to do, which is the second part of this story
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  Speaker 1: that ever, everyone should be asking questions about. How is
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  Speaker 1: it that a twenty something who has a YouTube channel
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  Speaker 1: did more reporting on this fraud than the entire media
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  Speaker 1: conglomerate of the United States of America combined. How is
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  Speaker 1: it that he was able to go and confront employees
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  Speaker 1: at these alleged learning centers in Minnesota receiving millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in aid despite showing no signs of operational activity.
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  Speaker 1: How is it that four million dollars of hard earned
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars went to one center where they couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: spell the word learning correctly? And how did the media
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  Speaker 1: not do their job? The FBI Caspertel posted on x
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  Speaker 1: is aware of the recent social media report in Minnesota. However,
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  Speaker 1: even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had
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  Speaker 1: surged personnel and to gative resources to Minnesota to dismantle
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  Speaker 1: the large scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs, fraud that
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  Speaker 1: steals from taxpayers. The FBI director goes on to say,
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  Speaker 1: and Rob's vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota and nationwide. Ptel then noted that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: dismantled a two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud scheme
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  Speaker 1: that stole federal food aid meant for vulnerable children during
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  Speaker 1: COVID say the investigation exposed sham vendors, shell companies, and
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  Speaker 1: large scale money laundering tied to the Feeding Our Future network.
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  Speaker 1: The case led to seventy eight indictments and fifty seven convictions.
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  Speaker 1: Defendants included high level and high named individuals, each of
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  Speaker 1: them charged for their roles ranging from wirefraud to money
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  Speaker 1: laundering to conspiracy. Ptel concluded that these schemes quote are
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  Speaker 1: just the tip of the very large ice berg. The
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  Speaker 1: assistant US Attorney, by the way, Joseph Thompson also revealed
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  Speaker 1: earlier this month at half of the eighteen billion in
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  Speaker 1: federal welfare funds which support fourteen Minnesota run programs since
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, have been lost to fraud. Quote, Minnesota has
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  Speaker 1: become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we
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  Speaker 1: have developed a fraud tourism industry, people coming to our
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  Speaker 1: state purely to exploit and defraud its programs. Thompson said,
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  Speaker 1: this is deeply unsettling and a reality that all Minnesotans
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  Speaker 1: should understand. So you go back to the big question,
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  Speaker 1: how is it that one man was able to do
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  Speaker 1: so much good? And how was it that the media
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  Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party did nothing to stop it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it could be for two reasons. One, the media was
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  Speaker 1: in on it. They knew there was reports of fraud,
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  Speaker 1: and they deliberately chose to look the other way. Why
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  Speaker 1: because much of that money was coming back to support
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  Speaker 1: Democrats who were running for office and who had been elected.
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  Speaker 1: There's also the other question, how much to Governor Waltz,
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  Speaker 1: the former man who could have been one heartbeat away
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  Speaker 1: from the presidency. What did he know and when did
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  Speaker 1: he know it? And how involved was he and why
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  Speaker 1: is he not doing more. You have to remember all
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  Speaker 1: he's saying now is somehow this is the Republican's fault,
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  Speaker 1: even though Democrats are in charge of every aspect of
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  Speaker 1: the state of Minnesota. And he doesn't answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: and he also doesn't seem to be angry at all.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to care about the fraud, which brings
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  Speaker 1: us back to exactly what Casptel said. Not only is
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  Speaker 1: the FBI aware of the recent social media reports, but
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  Speaker 1: we are dismantling large scale frauds and it's only the
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  Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. That's why Donald Trump put him
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  Speaker 1: in charge. And one thing's for sure, the President is
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  Speaker 1: honed in on this fraud and gonna do everything he
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  Speaker 1: can to stop it. Now, something that will make you
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  Speaker 1: laugh about this entire scandal is remember the Quality Leering Center.
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  Speaker 1: You know the sign where they couldn't even spell the
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  Speaker 1: word learning correctly. Well, after that sign has gone viral,
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  Speaker 1: they have suddenly fixed a sign and it now reads
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  Speaker 1: the actual word learning. I'm not joking, this is literally
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  Speaker 1: what it says.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 8: JD.
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  Speaker 1: Vance, the Vice President United States of America, putting out
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  Speaker 1: a tweet saying, quote, what's happening in Minnesota is a
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  Speaker 1: microcosm of the immigration fraud in our system. Politicians like
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  Speaker 1: it because they get power. Welfare cheats like it because
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  Speaker 1: they get rich. But it's a zero sum game and
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  Speaker 1: they're stealing both money and political power from Minnesotans. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be any more right on what he's saying, which
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the new headline the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security on Tuesday now highlighting what they're referring to is
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  Speaker 1: day two of a massive operation in Minnesota, as federal
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  Speaker 1: agents are intensifying their efforts to crack down on the
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  Speaker 1: widespread Smali initiated fraud targeting the state and federal programs.
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Homeland Security posted a video online showing
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  Speaker 1: agents conducting searches and enforcement actions aimed at individuals that
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  Speaker 1: are suspected of defrauding taxpayers of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This surge is following the new allegations involving daycare centers
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, many that are operated by Somali residents that
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  Speaker 1: are accused of abusing public assistance programs caught redhanded on tape.
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  Speaker 1: Our investigative agents are conducting a massive operation. DHS says
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  Speaker 1: to identify, arrest, and remove criminals who are defrauding the
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  Speaker 1: American people. We will out this rampant fraud that is
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  Speaker 1: plaguing Minnesota, the Department of Homeland Security said in a
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  Speaker 1: post on Acts Now. The announcement comes amid heightened scrutiny
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  Speaker 1: on the state, which has already been under investigation for
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  Speaker 1: years over large scale fraud involving Medicaid, pandemic relief funds,
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  Speaker 1: and the child nutrition programs. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome
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  Speaker 1: confirming that Homeland Security Investigation agents are actively operating. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: we are on the ground in Minnesota, in Minneapolis right now,
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  Speaker 1: conducting a massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud.
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  Speaker 1: This comes to the FBI director also increasing their operations
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  Speaker 1: on day two, saying federal authorities are focused on dismantling
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  Speaker 1: what they describe as large scale fraud schemes exploiting federal
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  Speaker 1: programs now. The latest push follows reporting by the journalist
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  Speaker 1: Nick Shirley, who again I say, as a hero, who
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  Speaker 1: showed the Somali daycare centers and mini app list committing
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  Speaker 1: as much as one hundred million in fraud in a
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  Speaker 1: single day. Minnesota's most notorious fraud case remains the feeding
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  Speaker 1: our future scandal, but there are real chances now that
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  Speaker 1: that could be in the past and new fraud scandals
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  Speaker 1: could be even more expensive. That fraud scandal was all
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  Speaker 1: related to the COVID nineteen fraud scheme, the largest in
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  Speaker 1: our country's history. That was three hundred million in pandemic
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  Speaker 1: relief funds that were intended to provide food for children.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what the Somalis did. They stole the money. Now,
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two, seventy eight people have been charged,
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven had been convicted or pleted guilty. Federal Prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thompson is estimated that total losses from fraud schemes
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota alone could easily exceed more than a billion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and earlier this month, the federal prosecutor also led a
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  Speaker 1: half or more of the roughly eighteen billion in federal
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  Speaker 1: funds sent to support seen Minnesota program since twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: have been misappropriated. Yes, we're talking about fraud now. James Comer,
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  Speaker 1: from the House Oversight Committee chairman sett He now plans
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  Speaker 1: to subpoena top Minnesota officials, including the governor Waltz to
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  Speaker 1: testify under oath to Congress investigating how the fraud went
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  Speaker 1: undetected for years. I think we all know it wasn't undetected.
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  Speaker 1: They knew about it, they were in on it, and
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  Speaker 1: they knew it was helping them get elected to office,
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  Speaker 1: which brings me back to the accountability aspect of all
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  Speaker 1: of this. There are now real members of Congress that
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  Speaker 1: are taking action, including Senator John Kennedy, a Republican who
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  Speaker 1: represents Louisiana, describing the one billion dollars Somali fraud case
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota as a clown world on steroids and deeply discussing.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy made the comments during a Senate for speech when
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  Speaker 1: speaking about the Eat Our Future fraud scandal with prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: uncovering the defrauding of the federal government during the COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. I want you to listen carefully to what
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  Speaker 1: the Senator had to say in front of all this colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: many of them listening on the floor who actually represent Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me, It makes me want to knee someone
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  Speaker 4: in the groin. It just makes me furious, and I
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  Speaker 4: think the American taxpayers feel the same way. What I'm
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  Speaker 4: about to tell you, mister President, let me apologize in advance,
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  Speaker 4: is deeply disgusting. It's deeply disgusting. I mean, it is
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  Speaker 4: clown World on steroids. And when I first read about this,
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  Speaker 4: mister President, I read it a second time because I
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  Speaker 4: was I experienced slack jawed astonishment. And when I read
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  Speaker 4: it the second time and I realized that it was true,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to run away screaming what am I
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  Speaker 4: talking about, mister President. We have discovered the federal federal
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  Speaker 4: prosecutors have discovered that for the last five years, there
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  Speaker 4: has been massive welfare fraud in the great state of Minnesota. Massive,
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  Speaker 4: Over a billion dollars of American taxpayer money has been stolen,
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  Speaker 4: just stolen. They can call it fraud, but a better
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  Speaker 4: term would be stealing. And this fraud has been centered
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  Speaker 4: in the Samodi community in minnesot Now, I'm not here
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  Speaker 4: to criticize the Somali community. I'm here simply to describe
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  Speaker 4: what happened. The Somali community in Minneapolis is about eighty
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  Speaker 4: thousand people. They're centered around Minneapolis. And let me say
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  Speaker 4: it again, I'm not here to detegrate the Somali people.
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  Speaker 4: Or people of Somali ancestry, just because of the actions
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  Speaker 4: of a few. But it is a fact that this
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  Speaker 4: one billion dollars in welfare fraud occurred almost exclusively in
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  Speaker 4: the Somali community in Minnesota and was orchestrated by people
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  Speaker 4: with Somali ancestry. That's a fact. Facts aren't racist. Facts
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  Speaker 4: are facts.
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  Speaker 1: Facts aren't racists.
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  Speaker 9: Facts are facts.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me want to need somebody in the growing
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  Speaker 1: slamming the state leaders and demanding accountability. The American taxpayers,
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  Speaker 1: he said, feel the same way. Freederal prosecutors say that
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine people have been convicted in those schemes so far,
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  Speaker 1: and that more than one billion in taxpayer money has
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  Speaker 1: been stolen in three plots they are investigating. That is
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  Speaker 1: more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of millions of dollars are diverted again by several
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  Speaker 1: Somali nationals who took the money they were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be using literally to feed children, and in fact we're
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  Speaker 1: pocketing for criminal instances. Kennedy saying that this is truly shocking.
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  Speaker 1: It was one hundred and twenty five million meals that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: this charity claim they were providing to children that were
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  Speaker 1: not provided at all. So what can we all do
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that this continues to have light put
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  Speaker 1: on it? Share all the information that I'm giving you,
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  Speaker 1: Share it everywhere that you can so that more people
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: see what the Democrats have been doing and also what
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the media has been covering up. The fallout out of
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota is now reaching other states. Is now there's more
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  Speaker 1: accusations in other states that Democrats were allowing illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: and not all of them are going to be Somali's
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  Speaker 1: to defraud the system on purpose buying votes. Now, all
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  Speaker 1: of this is happening, and I'm going to go through
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  Speaker 1: some of it in a moment, But there's a new
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  Speaker 1: trend that has just started because of the fallout in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Now Mark Kelly, a Democrat, is coming out randomly calling
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  Speaker 1: for the ban of stock trading for members of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Why well, there are reports that are out that alam
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  Speaker 1: Omar went from being negative in her net worth when
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: she got into Congress to just a few years later
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  Speaker 1: being worth upwards of thirty million dollars. How did that happen?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Omar's net worth has increased again up to thirty million,
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  Speaker 1: despite her claiming she isn't a millionaire. According to a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: new report, Omar and her husband have a networth between
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: she's stated in her government forms of six million to
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  Speaker 1: thirty million according to their twenty twenty five disclosure. The
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon is now reporting this. Disclosures from the
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  Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty three, that is just two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: show the pair had ownership stakes that only add to
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  Speaker 1: the value of just about fifty one thousand dollars. The question, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: is how do you go from having fifty one thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in your bank account to two years later on
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  Speaker 1: a fixed salary that everyone knows where it is, it's
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred and change to upwards of almost thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. Now, Omar has denied that she has an
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  Speaker 1: increase in well since being elected to Congress, because apparently
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you can just lie now about everything. At one point
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  Speaker 1: she even stated, quote, she's not a millionaire. So let's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: go back to Mark Kelly, hardcore liberal Democrat. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the same guy that was in favor of sedition and
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  Speaker 1: advocating for the military members to not take the orders
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  Speaker 1: of the President of the United States of America. He
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  Speaker 1: now as a Democrat, is coming out saying, yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we should ban stock trading for members of Congress like
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  Speaker 1: ohmmr and Nancy Pelosi, whose net wealth is in the
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Take a listen, hey, folks, let's talk about these New
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  Speaker 6: year resolutions. Never really been that big into them. My
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  Speaker 6: wife Gabby, though, you know, this is something she plans
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  Speaker 6: for every year. But I got one this year that
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  Speaker 6: I think is pretty important. You know, my New Year's
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  Speaker 6: resolution is going to be to finally get stock trading
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  Speaker 6: banned from Congress. Why is it that members of Congress
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  Speaker 6: get to use the information they have from having this
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  Speaker 6: job and trade stocks ridiculous American people don't get that.
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  Speaker 8: It's not right.
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  Speaker 6: For that reason, I don't trade stocks. I've got all
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  Speaker 6: my assets in a blind trust here. I'm one of
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  Speaker 6: the few people that do that. But we really need
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  Speaker 6: the band stock trading. It is a problem that has
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  Speaker 6: been going on way too long.
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  Speaker 1: Why did Mark Kelly decide to come out right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's probably because he realizes how much fraud
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  Speaker 1: and corruption in inCider trading is about to be exposed,
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  Speaker 1: and he's trying to get ahead of it. He understands
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  Speaker 1: how corrupt the Democratic Party is, how many members of
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  Speaker 1: Congress around him are going to be exposed just by
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  Speaker 1: what we're witnessing in Minnesota right now, which brings me
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  Speaker 1: back to elam Omar. Omar said, it is categorically false
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  Speaker 1: to call her a millionaire. Her net worth just reachs
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  Speaker 1: up to thirty million, an increase of at least three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred percent in one year. Much of the squad
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  Speaker 1: member's wealth comes to her husband's winery, they claim, and
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  Speaker 1: his venture capital firm. How does this even happen, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. It happens because Congress allows it to.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me to the fight that has just started
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  Speaker 1: between alamo Omar and the Treasury Secretary of Scott Descent.
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  Speaker 1: They're duking it out now over the Minnesota fraud scandal.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm about to play for you is not from
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  Speaker 1: the national news. I want to be clear, they're still
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  Speaker 1: staying away from this story. This is from local news.
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully to what they say about the back and forth.
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  Speaker 10: It developments the fraud scandal in Minnesota escalating over the weekend.
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  Speaker 10: Both Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and state Representative Ilhan Omar
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  Speaker 10: publicly speaking out regarding the widespread alleged scheme allegedly orchestrated
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  Speaker 10: by Somali asylum seekers. The National News Test Jeff Harris
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  Speaker 10: joining us and both Beston and Omar they appeared on
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  Speaker 10: Face the Nation Jeff, But the two, of course, as
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  Speaker 10: you can expect, related much different messages to the American people.
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  Speaker 10: Break down what we know.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 9: Besson spent much of the interview on his end discussing
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  Speaker 9: the Treasury Department's investigation, which includes whether taxpayer money went
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  Speaker 9: to terrorist organizations in Somalia. Omar, who's part of the
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  Speaker 9: Somali community, responding to those comments, saying it would be
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  Speaker 9: a failure of the FBI if they did in fact happen.
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  Speaker 9: Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessing calling out Minnesota
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  Speaker 9: Representative Ilhan Omar for her response about the allegations of
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  Speaker 9: widespread fraud from the state Somali community, the largest in
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  Speaker 9: the nation and potential link to terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 8: Representative Kolmar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was
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  Speaker 8: very it was very tough to know how this money
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  Speaker 8: should be used. She was gaslighting the American people.
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  Speaker 9: Meanwhile, Omar pushing back, saying any connection between alleged Somali
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  Speaker 9: fraud and terrorism would fall on the FBI.
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  Speaker 11: If there was a linkage in that the money that
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  Speaker 11: they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a
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  Speaker 11: failure of the FBI.
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  Speaker 9: This fraud investigation dates back to twenty twenty two, when
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  Speaker 9: the Biden administration filed charges in connection to what they
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  Speaker 9: called the largest pandemic fraud in the US. Bessen saying
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  Speaker 9: he was asked last week to investigate whether Minnesota's tax
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  Speaker 9: dollars made its way to terrorist organizations linked to Somalia.
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  Speaker 8: That money has gone overseas and we are tracking that
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  Speaker 8: both to the Middle East and Somalia.
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  Speaker 9: Minnesota is currently dealing with multiple fraud scandals totaling over
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  Speaker 9: one billion dollars in stolen taxpayer funds, including nearly three
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  Speaker 9: hundred million from the nonprofit Feeding our Future. Omar's campaign
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  Speaker 9: receiving donations from people charged in that scheme, donations, she says,
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  Speaker 9: have since been returned.
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  Speaker 11: We obviously had people who were able to donate to
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  Speaker 11: our campaign that were involved. We send that money back now.
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  Speaker 9: The House Oversight Committee announcing last week it's also opening
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  Speaker 9: an investigation into the fraud in Minnesota Chairman James Comer,
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  Speaker 9: saying whistleblowers were ignored.
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  Speaker 4: That this fraud was taking place and that both the
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  Speaker 4: Attorney General and the governor of Minnesota turned a blind
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  Speaker 4: eye to it.
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  Speaker 9: Meanwhile, Republican Senator John Kennedy also weigh in on the
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  Speaker 9: Senate floor last week, calling the fraud case quote a
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  Speaker 9: clown world on steroids.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me want a niece someone in the groin.
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  Speaker 4: It just makes me furious.
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  Speaker 9: Now, total of eighty seven people have been charged across
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  Speaker 9: all the main fraud cases here, all but eight being
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  Speaker 9: of Somali descent, with sixty one conviction secured so far.
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  Speaker 9: Amy Bach, founder of Feeding Our Future and the alleged
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  Speaker 9: mastermind of that scheme, was found guilty on all counts
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  Speaker 9: and right now is awaiting sentencing. Reporting for the National
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  Speaker 9: News Desk, I'm Jeff Harris.
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  Speaker 1: You notice there in that report they talk about how
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  Speaker 1: Omar says oh I returned the money, so apparently everything
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  Speaker 1: should be fine. Well, how did she become a multi millionaire.
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  Speaker 1: She also is dismissing these new allegations as quote right
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  Speaker 1: wing disinformation campaign, saying again, I am not a millionaire.
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  Speaker 1: Then why on your financial disclosures do you value your
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  Speaker 1: net worth up to thirty million dollars in just a year.
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  Speaker 1: This came out of nowhere. How much is you make
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  Speaker 1: less than two hundred thousand dollars a year? You can
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  Speaker 1: do the math on it and decide what you think
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  Speaker 1: about that. And you go back to Mark Kelly calling
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  Speaker 1: to banstock trading for members of Congress, saying this has
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  Speaker 1: gone way too long. Why because he understands that we
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  Speaker 1: are now at the tip of a very large iceberg
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  Speaker 1: that is being investigated, and there are other states where
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  Speaker 1: the same type of fraud is going to be exposed.
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