Dick Durbin: “Almost 1,500 individuals were charged with a crime and they…”

“And so the largest investigation in the history of the Department of justice and the FBI started at the end of the day. Almost 1,500 individuals were charged with a crime and they were convicted. Some of them paid a fine, some served brief periods of time, and others more serious offenses, depending on what they did. That was the reality of what happened.” (06:10–06:17)

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