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Tim Walz: “I am deeply concerned now that they are being federally…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Walz on MN fraud: 'You commit fraud, you're going to prison'

Published | Video Starts at 07:59

We're the ones who alerted the FBI. We're the ones. We turn these cases over every day. Drug cases, human trafficking cases. We would prosecute them. What I can tell you is I am deeply concerned now that they are being federally prosecuted. because just yesterday the president commuted and pardoned a sentence of a fraudster who took billions and billions of dollars, who served 12 days and was sentenced by an American jury to 45 years. (07:59–08:04)

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Expresses concern over federal prosecution of cases, implying a preference for state-level prosecution.

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