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Fred Clark: “It appears that [welfare fraud] was a massive fraud that…”

Featuring: Fred Clark, Democratic | Former Member, Wisconsin State Assembly

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Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire

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Also, those 3,000 agents don't have a thing to do with rooting out fraud in welfare programs. So that needs to be investigated, and it already has been. But that needs to continue because It appears that [welfare fraud] was a massive fraud that defrauded taxpayers of, I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars. You know, Governor Walz is not going to run for a reelection, and it's largely because of that. So it's on his watch. The FBI ought to be involved in that, and I think they are. (24:27–28:57)

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Asserts that welfare fraud defrauded taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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