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Tom Emmer: “Nick Shirley put the sheer brazenness and magnitude of the…”

Featuring: Tom Emmer, Republican | Majority Whip, U.S. House, Minnesota's 6th District

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Since I last stood at this podium, the extent of the Somali fraud in my home state of Minnesota has been exposed even further. 23 year old independent journalist Nick Shirley put the sheer brazenness and magnitude of the fraud on full display by uncovering 110 million in daycare fraud in just one day. He simply looked for fraud and found it in a matter of hours. Our embarrassment of a governor and sorry excuse for an Attorney General had seven years to address it and they didn't do a thing. (24:36–24:50)

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