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J. D. Vance: “The fact that we were turning a blind eye to fraud under a…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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You start with the low level guys who then give you some sense of the criminal enterprise and then you can go after the high level fraud and the high level crime. The fact that we were turning a blind eye to fraud under a million dollars meant that we weren't even looking at the people that, who are sitting on top of some of these fraud rings. And we, we do see already signs in Minnesota for example, of some very sophisticated stuff. I mean, sometimes I see these. You might actually be a halfway productive citizen, halfway productive citizen. (29:00–29:09)

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Asserts that ignoring low-level fraud prevents uncovering high-level fraudsters.

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