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Jacob Frey: “People have been prosecuted, people have been convicted. And…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 17:36

Does Attorney General Keith Ellison bears some responsibility for why this fraud was so widespread and was able to go on for so long without being noticed? Look, there have been investigations into this fraud now for years. People have been prosecuted, people have been convicted. And that's the way it should be. When you commit a crime in this country, you are held accountable. And you go to jail as an individual, you go to jail as an individual, entire communities, entire populations are not held accountable for the actions of the individuals that actually did it. (17:36–17:42)

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Asserts that prosecutions and convictions have occurred in fraud investigations.

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