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Congress Insider Trading Scandal Explodes After Omar Wealth Report · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The fallout out of Minnesota is now reaching other states.
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  Speaker 1: Is now there's more accusations in other states that Democrats
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  Speaker 1: were allowing illegal immigrants and not all of them are
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  Speaker 1: going to be Somali's to defraud the system on purpose
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  Speaker 1: buying votes. Now, all of this is happening, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go through some of it in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a new trend that has just started because
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  Speaker 1: of the fallout in Minnesota. Now Mark Kelly, a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: is coming out randomly calling for the ban of stock
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  Speaker 1: trading for members of Congress. Why well, there are reports
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  Speaker 1: that are out that Alam Omar went from being negative
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  Speaker 1: in her net worth when she got into Congress to
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  Speaker 1: just a few years later being worth upwards of thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: How did that happen?
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  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
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  Speaker 1: new report, Omar and her husband have a net worth
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  Speaker 1: between she's stated in her government forms of six million
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  Speaker 1: to thirty million according to their twenty twenty five disclosure.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon is now reporting this disclosures from
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty three, that is just two
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  Speaker 1: years ago, show the pair had ownership stakes that only
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  Speaker 1: add to the value of just about fifty one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The question, obviously, is, how do you go from having
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  Speaker 1: fifty one thousand dollars in your bank account to two
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  Speaker 1: years later on a fixed salary that everyone knows where
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  Speaker 1: it is, it's about one hundred change two upwards of
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  Speaker 1: almost thirty million dollars. Now, Omar has denied that she
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  Speaker 1: has an increase in well since being elected to Congress,
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  Speaker 1: because apparently you can just lie now about everything. At
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  Speaker 1: one point, she even stated, quote, she's not a millionaire.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go back to Mark Kelly, hardcore liberal Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the same guy that was in favor of
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  Speaker 1: sedition and advocating for the military members to not take
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  Speaker 1: the orders of the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: He now as a Democrat, is coming out saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should ban stock trading for members of Congress
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  Speaker 1: like Ommr and Anti Pelosi, whose net wealth is in
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  Speaker 1: the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen, hey, folks, let's talk about these New
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  Speaker 3: Year's resolutions. Never really been that big into them. My
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  Speaker 3: wife Gabby, though, you know, this is something she plans
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  Speaker 3: for every year, but I got one this year that
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  Speaker 3: I think is pretty important. You know, my New Year's
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  Speaker 3: resolution is going to be to finally get stock trading
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  Speaker 3: banned from Congress. Why is it that members of Congress
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  Speaker 3: get to use the information they have from having this job.
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  Speaker 4: And trade stocks? Ridiculous? American people don't get that. It's
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  Speaker 4: not right. For that reason, I don't trade stocks. I've
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  Speaker 4: got all my assets in a blind trust here on
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  Speaker 4: one of the few people that do that. But we
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  Speaker 4: really need the ban stock trading. It is a problem
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  Speaker 4: that has 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 networth just reachs up
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  Speaker 1: to thirty million and increase of at least three five
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent in one year. Much of the squad member's
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  Speaker 1: wealth comes to her husband's winery, they claim, and his
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  Speaker 1: venture capital firm. How does this even happen, Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty simple. It happens because Congress allows it to. Which
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  Speaker 1: brings me to the fight that has just started between
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  Speaker 1: Alamo mar and the Treasury Secretary, Scott Descent. They're duking
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  Speaker 1: it out now over the Minnesota fraud scandal. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to play for you is not from the National News.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be clear, they're still staying away from
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  Speaker 1: this story. This is from local news. Listen carefully to
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  Speaker 1: what they say about the back and forth it developments.
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  Speaker 5: The fraud scandal in Minnesota escalating over the weekend, both
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  Speaker 5: Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and state Representative Ilhan Omar publicly
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  Speaker 5: speaking out regarding the widespread alleged scheme allegedly orchestrated by
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  Speaker 5: Somali asylum seekers. The National News desk Jeff Harris joining
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  Speaker 5: us and both Beston and Omar they appeared on Face
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  Speaker 5: the Nation, Jeff. But the two, of course is you
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  Speaker 5: can expect relate much different messages to the American people
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  Speaker 5: break down what we know.
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  Speaker 6: So Besson spent much of the interview on his end
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  Speaker 6: discussing the Treasury Department's investigation, which includes whether taxpayer money
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  Speaker 6: went to terrorist organizations in Somalia. Omar, who's part of
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  Speaker 6: the Somali community, responding to those comments, saying it would
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  Speaker 6: be a failure of the FBI if that did in
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  Speaker 6: fact happen. Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessing calling
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  Speaker 6: out Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar for her response about the
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  Speaker 6: allegations of widespread fraud from the state Somali community, the
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  Speaker 6: largest in the nation, and potential link to terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 7: Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was
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  Speaker 7: very it was very tough to know how this money
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  Speaker 7: should be used. She was gaslighting the American people.
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  Speaker 6: And while Omar pushing back saying any connection between alleged
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  Speaker 6: Somali fraud and terrorism would fall on the FBI.
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  Speaker 8: If there was a linkage in that the money that
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  Speaker 8: they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a
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  Speaker 8: failure of the FBI.
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  Speaker 6: This fraud investigation dates back to twenty twenty two, when
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  Speaker 6: the Biden administration filed charges in connection to what they
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  Speaker 6: called the largest pandemic fraud in the US. Bessen saying
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  Speaker 6: he was asked last week to investigate whether Minnesota's tax
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  Speaker 6: dollars made its way to terrorist organizations linked to Somalia.
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  Speaker 7: That money has gone overseas and we are tracking that
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  Speaker 7: both to the Middle East and Somalia.
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  Speaker 6: Minnesota is currently dealing with multiple fraud scandals totaling over
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  Speaker 6: one billion dollars in stolen taxpayer funds, including nearly three
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  Speaker 6: hundred million from the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Omar's campaign
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  Speaker 6: receiving donations from people charged in that scheme, donations, she says,
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  Speaker 6: have since been returned.
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  Speaker 8: We obviously had people who were able to donate to
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  Speaker 8: our campaign that were involved. We send that money back now.
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  Speaker 6: The House Oversight Committee announcing last week it's also opening
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  Speaker 6: an investigation into the fraud in Minnesota, Chairman James Comer,
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  Speaker 6: saying whistleblowers were ignored.
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  Speaker 9: That this fraud was taking place and that both the
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  Speaker 9: Attorney general and the governor of Minnesota turned a blind
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  Speaker 9: eye to it.
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  Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Republican Senator John Kennedy also wing in on the
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  Speaker 6: Senate floor last week, calling the fraud case quote a
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  Speaker 6: clown world on steroids.
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  Speaker 9: It makes me want a nie someone in the groin.
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  Speaker 9: It just makes me furious.
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  Speaker 6: Now, a total of eighty seven people have been charged
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  Speaker 6: across all the main fraud cases here, all but eight
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  Speaker 6: being of Somali descent, with sixty one conviction secured so far.
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  Speaker 6: Amy Bach, founder of Feeding Our Future and the alleged
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  Speaker 6: mastermind of that scheme, was found guilty on accounts and
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  Speaker 6: right now is awaiting sentencing. Reporting for the National News Desk,
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  Speaker 6: 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 return the money, so apparently everything
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  Speaker 1: should be fine. Well, how did she become a multimillionaire?
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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 does she 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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  Speaker 1: Something that will make you laugh about this entire scandal
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  Speaker 1: is remember the Quality Leering Center. You know the sign
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  Speaker 1: where they couldn't even spell the word learning correctly. Well,
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  Speaker 1: after that sign has gone viral, they have suddenly fixed
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  Speaker 1: a sign and it now reads the actual word learning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not joking, this is literally what it says.
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  Speaker 2: Now 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 Somali 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 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 red handed
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  Speaker 1: on tape. Are investigative agents are conducting a massive operation.
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  Speaker 1: DHS says to identify, arrest, and remove criminals who are
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  Speaker 1: defrauding the American people. We will root out this rampant
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  Speaker 1: fraud that is plaguing Minnesota, the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: said in a post on Acts Now. The announcement comes
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  Speaker 1: amid heightened screw on the state, which has already been
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  Speaker 1: under investigation for years over large skilled fraud involving Medicaid,
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  Speaker 1: pandemic relief funds, and the child nutrition programs. Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Christy Nome confirming that Homeland Security Investigation agents are
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  Speaker 1: actively operating. Quote, we are on the ground in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis right now conducting a massive investigation on childcare
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  Speaker 1: and other rampant fraud. This comes to the FBI director
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  Speaker 1: also increasing their operations on day two, saying federal authorities
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  Speaker 1: are focused on dismantling what they describe as large scale
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  Speaker 1: fraud schemes exploiting federal programs now. The latest push follows
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  Speaker 1: reporting by the journalist Nick Shirley, who again I say,
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  Speaker 1: is a hero, who showed the Somali daycare centers in
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis committing as much as one hundred million in fraud
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  Speaker 1: in a single day. Minnesota's most notorious fraud case remains
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  Speaker 1: defeeding our future scandal, but there are real chances now
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  Speaker 1: that that could be in the past and new fraud
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  Speaker 1: scandals could be even more expensive. That fraud scandal was
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  Speaker 1: all related to the COVID nineteen fraud scheme, the largest
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  Speaker 1: in our country's history. That was three hundred million in
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  Speaker 1: pandemic 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 fourteen Minnesota programs since twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: have been misappropriated. Yes, we're talking about fraud now. James
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  Speaker 1: from the House Oversight Committee Chairman set He now plans
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  Speaker 1: the 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: Kenny made the comments during a Senate for speech when
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  Speaker 1: speaking about the feed or 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 and carefully to
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  Speaker 1: what the Senator had to say in front of all
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  Speaker 1: his colleagues, many of them listing on the floor, who
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  Speaker 1: actually represent Minnesota.
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  Speaker 9: It makes me. It makes me want to knee someone
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  Speaker 9: in the groin. It just makes me furious, and I
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  Speaker 9: think the American taxpayers feel the same way. What I'm
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  Speaker 9: about to tell you, mister President, let me apologize in advance,
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  Speaker 9: is deeply disgusting. It's deeply disgusting. I mean, it is
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  Speaker 9: clown world on steroids. And when I first read about this,
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  Speaker 9: mister President, I read it a second time because I
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  Speaker 9: was I experienced slack jawed astonishment. And when I read
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  Speaker 9: it a second time and I realized it was true,
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  Speaker 9: I just wanted to run away, screaming, what am I
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  Speaker 9: talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Mister President, we have.
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  Speaker 9: Discovered the federal federal prosecutors have discovered that for the
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  Speaker 9: last five years, there has been massive welfare fraud in
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  Speaker 9: the great state of Minnesota. Massive. Over a billion dollars
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  Speaker 9: of American taxpayer money has been stolen, just stolen. They
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  Speaker 9: can call it fraud, but a better term would be stealing.
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  Speaker 9: And this fraud has been centered in the Somali community
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  Speaker 9: in Minnesota. Now, I'm not here to criticize the Somali community.
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  Speaker 9: I'm here simply to describe what happened. The Somali community
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  Speaker 9: in Minneapolis is about eighty thousand people. They're centered around Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 9: And let me say it again, I'm not here to
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  Speaker 9: detegrate the Somali people or people of Somali ancestry just
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  Speaker 9: because of the actions of a few. But it is
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  Speaker 9: a fact that this one billion dollars in welfare fraud
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  Speaker 9: occurred almost exclusively in the Somali community in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 9: was orchestrated by people with Somali ancestry. That's a fact.
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  Speaker 9: Facts aren't racist. Facts are facts.
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  Speaker 2: Facts aren't racists. Facts or 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 in 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 2: Hundreds of millions of dollars were diverted.
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  Speaker 1: Again by several Somali nationals who took the money they
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be using literally to feed children, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact we're pocketing for criminal instances. Kennedy saying that
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  Speaker 1: this is truly shocking. It was one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million meals that this charity claim they were providing
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  Speaker 1: to children that were not provided at all. So what
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  Speaker 1: can we all do to make sure that this continues
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  Speaker 1: to have light put on it? Share all the information
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  Speaker 1: that I'm giving you, Share it everywhere that you can
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  Speaker 1: so that more people see what the Democrats have been
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  Speaker 1: doing and also what the media has been covering up.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is unleashing the federal government and its resources
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  Speaker 1: to hold those accountable for the fraud in Minnesota at
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  Speaker 1: a staggering pace. We now know that federal funding has
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  Speaker 1: been frozen and systems safeguards are being put into place.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration, starting with the Department of Health and
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  Speaker 1: Human Services, has frozen about one hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 1: million in federal childcare funds to Minnesota as part of
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  Speaker 1: accountability measures over suspected fraud in the state programs. It
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  Speaker 1: was announced by the Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neil. This is
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  Speaker 1: what he had to say about how much money is
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  Speaker 1: going to stop flowing to the fraudsters in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, I mayh just Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill. I'm here
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  Speaker 10: with Assistant Secretary Alex Adams Silverseas, the Administration for Children
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  Speaker 10: and Families and TRUMPID journalists have made shocky, incredible allegations
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  Speaker 10: of extensive fraud in Minnesota's childcare programs. We believe the
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  Speaker 10: state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake daycares to
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  Speaker 10: siphon millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade.
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  Speaker 11: My office ACF provides Minnesota one hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 11: million dollars in childcare funds each year. That money should
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  Speaker 11: be helping nineteen thousand American children including toddlers and infants.
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  Speaker 11: Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children.
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  Speaker 11: Yesterday I spoke directly with the director of the Minnesota
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  Speaker 11: Childcare Services Office. She could not tell me with confidence
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  Speaker 11: whether those allegations of fraud are isolated or whether there's
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  Speaker 11: fraud stress statewide.
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  Speaker 10: Today, we have taken three direct actions against the blatant
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  Speaker 10: fraud that seems to be rampant in Minnesota. First, I
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  Speaker 10: have activated our defend the Spend system for all ACF
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  Speaker 10: childcare payments across America. Starting today, we require a justification,
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  Speaker 10: receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment. Second,
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  Speaker 10: I've just signed and sent a demand letter to Governor Walls.
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  Speaker 10: I required a full three hundred and sixty review of
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  Speaker 10: these centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
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  Speaker 11: And Third, we've launched a dedicated fraud reporting hotline and
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  Speaker 11: email address at childcare dot gov. Whether you're a parent,
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  Speaker 11: a provider, a member of the public, we want to
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  Speaker 11: hear from you. Let me be crystal clear. ACF expects
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  Speaker 11: every state to uphold the highest standards of oversight, monitoring,
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  Speaker 11: and accountability for federal dollars. Minnesota is no exception.
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  Speaker 10: We're committed to holding bad actors accountable, regardless the rank
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  Speaker 10: of office. Anyone is involved in perpetrating this fraud against
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  Speaker 10: the American people should expect to be prosecuted to the
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  Speaker 10: fullest extent of the law.
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  Speaker 1: Not only are is HHS officials saying they're activating to
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  Speaker 1: defend the spend system, requiring evidence and justification before further
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  Speaker 1: federal payments are made, but they also said that if
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  Speaker 1: you are involved in the fraud, they are coming after
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  Speaker 1: you and you will be prosecuted, Which brings me to
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  Speaker 1: Part two of the Trump administration's response. They have now
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  Speaker 1: expanded the federal investigation. The FBI and the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security have significantly increased their investigative efforts in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: including now deploying additional federal agents. They're on the ground
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  Speaker 1: investigating all that has been uncovered. The actions are described
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  Speaker 1: by federal law enforcement leadership as part of a quote
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  Speaker 1: broad effort to uncover and dismantle large scale fraud operations
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  Speaker 1: within the state. Now, this is on top of the
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  Speaker 1: intensified federal actions built on the existing work where dozens
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  Speaker 1: of convictions have already been secured in major fraud schemes,
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  Speaker 1: including the large pandemic air feed Our Future case. Federal
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors and investigators say they're continuing to pursue accountability, including
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  Speaker 1: additional charges and oversight demonstrate the ongoing commitment to enforcement
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  Speaker 1: of the law in the state. Now this isn't just
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  Speaker 1: going to be in Minnesota, We're being told as well.
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  Speaker 1: They expect us to expand to other states where fraud
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  Speaker 1: is unfolding.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why these actions matter is because they're freezing
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  Speaker 1: the funds when misuse is even suspected instead of when
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: it's just proven. It helps protect federal dollars for their
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  Speaker 1: intended purpose. A great example without is actual childcare and
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  Speaker 1: childcare support for families of American citizens. They also say
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  Speaker 1: requiring evidence before disbursement add safeguards that were previously weaker
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: because they were trusting and now they're going to reduce
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the risk of large scale fraud in the future. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: expanding the investigative resources signals the federal resolve from the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration thoroughly examining and prosecuting fraud beyond just low.
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  Speaker 2: Core state efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Now, while all this is happening, there's also a pr
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  Speaker 1: disaster for Governor Tim Walls. In fact, there's a new
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  Speaker 1: ad out right now, and this is what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 12: Tim Walls doesn't seek out fraud. Fraud seeks out Tim Walls.
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: When scammers apply for jobs, they list him as a reference.
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  Speaker 12: Under his watch, Fraud is Minnesota's fastest growing small business,
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  Speaker 12: his biggest export taxpayer money delivered to foreign terrorists. If
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  Speaker 12: Fraud had a frequent flyer program, he would always fly
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  Speaker 12: first class. He is Tim Walls, the most fraudulent man
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  Speaker 12: in America.
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  Speaker 1: The scary part is there's a lot of truth to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that parody ad, which brings us back to even the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: bigger issue now, and that is the Democrats response.
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  Speaker 2: They're not seeing fraud at all.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: In fact, they're looking at the opposite of that, making
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  Speaker 1: it clear they don't believe that anything really bad is happening.
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  Speaker 1: A great example is ms NBC or ms NOW, whatever
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the hell they call themselves with the New York Times.
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  Speaker 1: One of those in charge the editorial board had this
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  Speaker 1: to say on Morning Joe, saying that if you are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: criticizing the fraud in Minnesota, you are a racist towards
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Somali's take a listen.
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  Speaker 13: The question is, you know, why is this a priority?
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: In a different kind of way, the politicization of the
• 24:45
  Speaker 13: DOJ and the FBI is undeniable. So whether they are
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  Speaker 13: reliable narrators is the big question. And this is what
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  Speaker 13: happens when you weaponize and politicize federal agencies that are
• 24:57
  Speaker 13: not meant to be you know, politicized. And I think
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: the American people are right to ask the question, well,
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: can we trust you? And that's a sad thing to
• 25:07
  Speaker 13: say as an American. Let's recall too that there's also
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: other scandals in other states, for example, the Mississippi welfare scandal,
• 25:15
  Speaker 13: and this is not unique to politics. Americans know that.
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  Speaker 13: But of course, the other factor here is that because
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  Speaker 13: it looks like the Somali population in Minnesota, the Smali
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: immigrant population may have been some involved in some way,
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: those people are being scapegoaded, and that community is being
• 25:36
  Speaker 13: scapegoaded in a way that certainly serves the far right.
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  Speaker 13: And so that's also something to keep an eye on,
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  Speaker 13: and that's inappropriate. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it, Democrats going back to their playbook.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime they can't defend their actions or their fraud, they
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: scream racism and say how dare you criticize a Somali community. Now,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: let's be clear about just how massive this fraud is
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  Speaker 1: within the Somali community. It isn't just a few bad
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: actors that set up a few daycare centers. This is
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  Speaker 1: a widespread fraud with the community owning these centers as
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  Speaker 1: well as the children they claim are going to the centers,
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  Speaker 1: and the kickbacks that are going to the parents for
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: signing their kids up that never actually attend. This is
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: not a little fraud. It is a massive fraud. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the massive fraud is all Somali run and organized. It's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: no different than organized crime. It's no different than what
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: we see with the cartels. And that's exactly why the
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  Speaker 1: president has no other choice but to do exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing right now, unleash the entire federal government to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: go after those that have stolen billions of dollars from
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the taxpayers. Now, this is another example of just how
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: absurd the left has really become. They say, do not
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: punish anyone because they are Somali, And the real reason
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: why is they want to buy votes. Why else would
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you bring in so many Somali voters. You brought them
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in so they'd support you. You got them addicted to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: government aid, and you know they're going to vote for
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you as long as you pay them through the government aid.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And the waste and the fraud and the abuse, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the scary part of all is Democrats aren't even outraged
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: over this, and they're not outraged that the money was
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: actually going to a terrorist organization, al Shabab.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are. It is a divide.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: You're either standing with the terrorists al Shabab, or you're
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: standing with the American taxpayer, the hard working Americans that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: pay their taxes that have been ripped off. And now
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: we know exactly where the Democrats stand on the issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's not with you, it's with the terrorists.
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