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Tim Walz: “We needed statute change. We needed more authorities to be…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Tim Walz on his Fraud Response, Operation Metro Surge & Not Running for a 3rd Term | On the Record

Published | Video Starts at 03:00

I think the amount of money that was being moved during COVID certainly made it and enticing to people. And there were just a lot of structures. We needed statute change. We needed more authorities to be able to be done. And I say this just about like yourself. So someone breaks in and steals something from your house, maybe you should have had a better security system. (03:00–03:05)

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Asserts that statute changes and more authority were needed to address fraud.

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