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Speaker 2: Our three on Twin Cities News talking before we get

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Speaker 2: to our guest coming up in just a moment, Senate

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Speaker 2: candidate former submariner Tom Wyler running for US Senate. His

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Speaker 2: website Tom Wyler excuse me, Tom Wyler twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: a moment. Before we do, I do want to get

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Speaker 2: to a few of your comments from the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 2: on talkbacks from the first two hours of the show,

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Speaker 2: and of course if you missed any portion of the

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Speaker 2: show so far, be sure to go and listen to

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Speaker 2: the podcast download that On the iHeart Radio app. Talking

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Speaker 2: quite a bit about paid family medical lead, there was

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Speaker 2: a peace and American experiment from John Feelin asking the

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Speaker 2: needed later this year to pay for the fact that

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Speaker 2: the number of individuals that have come up with excuses

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Speaker 2: to take the paid family medical leave has increased dramatically.

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Speaker 1: Got a comment here from a friend of the show,

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Speaker 1: Morney and John. Great show, Connie.

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Speaker 3: Why did more businesses in Minnesota fight paid family medical leave?

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Speaker 1: I don't really understand the business community here. Thanks, I

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Speaker 1: have a great day. They did.

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Speaker 2: There were businesses that were fighting back. As a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, a group of business leaders, prominent business leaders

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Speaker 2: came out I believe it was last year, and they

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Speaker 2: were requesting a pause in the implementation of the program

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Speaker 2: because of all of the problems that we've been highlighting

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Speaker 2: on the show. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce coming out

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Speaker 2: this week saying that you already had sixty three hundred

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Speaker 2: of their businesses.

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Speaker 1: That provided this.

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Speaker 2: Eighty percent of those sixty sixty three hundred businesses provided

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Speaker 2: some form of pay family medical leave. People that are

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Speaker 2: taking this time off, but they're going on vacation and

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Speaker 2: they're going to music festivals. The business leaders did speak out,

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Speaker 2: but the Democrats didn't care. They ignored them, rammed it

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Speaker 2: through anyway. At the end of last hour, we were

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Speaker 2: talking about how Mayor Jacob Fry in Minneapolis vetoed the

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Speaker 2: extension giving a moratorium on evictions. We had city council

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Speaker 2: member Soren Stevenson, who looked just like the alternative artist

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Speaker 2: Moby very upset at the mayor for what he did.

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Speaker 4: Everyone in Minneapolis agrees our top priority right now is

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Speaker 4: to support our neighbors who were targeted and harassed by ice.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about people that were here illegally in committed crimes.

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Speaker 2: By the way, coming from someone who used to be

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Speaker 2: a landlord.

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Speaker 1: When people fall behind on.

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Speaker 5: Their rent, they rarely ever get cop backed up.

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Speaker 1: It happens, but it's rare.

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Speaker 4: How can MOBI condemn profits when that's what the state

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Speaker 4: takes pride in taxing.

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Speaker 1: Hey buddy, everyone makes a profit.

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Speaker 6: Everyone cares about their profit because they got to use

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Speaker 6: their profits to pay their bills. What an idiot?

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Speaker 5: Hey, why ain't those people just go get their own

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Speaker 5: businesses or get their own rental property and give it

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Speaker 5: all the way free to people they want to and

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Speaker 5: trying to force us to pay for all to give

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's easier that way, because they're lazy.

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Speaker 7: So uh, I get it. The renters their neighbors technically,

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Speaker 7: although they are just renting there. They don't actually have

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Speaker 7: set they haven't set roots down. But aren't they landlords

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Speaker 7: also their neighbors?

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Speaker 1: Of course they are.

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Speaker 8: Somebody needs to sell MOBI. Klausoepper that if a landlord

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Speaker 8: has somebody living in his apartment's not paying red, he's

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Speaker 8: still not making a profit. He's losing more that if

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Speaker 8: he puts the person out and has the ft of party.

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Speaker 8: Simple dat.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's turn our attention over to our next guest.

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Speaker 2: FBI alert warns Iran may I drone attack on American soil.

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Speaker 4: Hey, John, just to preemptively get ahead of this conversation

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Speaker 4: about these drone attacks in California, Like, oh well, probably

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Speaker 4: all the rest of the country would feel about drone

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Speaker 2: Oh well, no mean, man, I got family there. As

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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, almost my entire family is there.

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Speaker 2: All right, We're going to get to our guest one

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Speaker 2: more quick clip. Here's President Donald Trump yesterday talking about

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Speaker 2: the possibility of these attacks.

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Speaker 6: Here's that way say try to hit us.

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Speaker 7: Bat Have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 9: I have been, and a lot of people came in

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Speaker 9: through Biden with a stupid open border. But we know

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 9: If it doesn't they came in through the open border

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Speaker 9: policies of sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, the

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Speaker 9: worst president in the history of our country. And we've

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Speaker 9: got a rise on all of them. But the wars

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Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing to us.

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Speaker 2: Joining us on the show now to share his thoughts

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Speaker 2: on Operation Epic Hearing, and of course his run for Senate.

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Speaker 2: A friend of the show, Tom Wiler, Good morning, Tom,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining the show this morning.

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Speaker 1: How are we doing, Good morning, John.

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Speaker 6: Doing well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on. Listen. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to last week.

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Speaker 2: In one of the major headlines since Operation Epic Fury

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Speaker 2: started was the fact that one of our US submarines

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Speaker 2: Iranian Navy. And given year background as a former submariner,

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Speaker 2: I certainly wanted to hear your thoughts. And I don't

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Speaker 2: had been quite a long time, if my memory serves

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Speaker 1: That is correct?

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Speaker 10: It was actually back to World War Two? Was the

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Speaker 10: last time the United States submarine Yeah, fired a torpedo

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Speaker 10: and sunk a ship and anger, and that just sort

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Speaker 10: of highlights the level of warfare that submarines, submarine warfare is.

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Speaker 10: It's basically an all or nothing type warfare. And yeah,

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Speaker 10: it was a big day last week for the submarine

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Speaker 10: force in general. When it was actually the USS Charlotte,

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Speaker 10: I was the department head and navigator an operations officer

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Speaker 10: So I'm proud of all submariners to demonstrate, you know,

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Speaker 10: due to that engagement, and so that's a lot too,

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Speaker 10: a lot to handle, I'm sure for the skipper of

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Speaker 10: to them. Thank you for doing their job and defending

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's it's kind of what I wanted to

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have sort of two, you know, two

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Speaker 2: And I'm wondering if maybe you could provide a little

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Speaker 10: Tom, Yes, very very intense to say that. To say

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Speaker 10: the crew of a submmarine too, to perform that type

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Speaker 10: initially and then and then I think your training takes over.

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Speaker 10: I think they you know, they executed the mission. Well,

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Speaker 10: probably within two thousand yards, within one narutic a mile

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Speaker 10: order unless it's an unjust order. And in this case,

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Speaker 10: we're at war with Iran, it's a just order, and

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Speaker 10: they effectively did their job on behalf ball Americans.

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Speaker 2: You look at some of the just a quick sidebar here.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of submarine movies in general.

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Speaker 2: many of these films actually do an accurate portrayal of

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Speaker 1: Do you have any thoughts on that? Tom?

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Speaker 2: Again, talking with Tom Wyler running for US Senate well,

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Speaker 10: Lot of them are overall, you know, paint a very

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Speaker 10: and sincerity. They all demonstrate some of the close quarters

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Speaker 10: But it's just difficult to fully explain the experience of

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Speaker 10: hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty the greatest

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Speaker 2: The website is Tom Wyler twenty twenty six. Tom's running

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Speaker 2: for US Senate. Your overall thoughts given your military background

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Speaker 10: Well, it's a phenomenal operation from the military perspective, and

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Speaker 10: it does demonstrate how we want to build and maintain

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Speaker 10: our military with overwhelming force and war is one of

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Speaker 10: those areas where you never want.

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Speaker 1: A fair fight.

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Speaker 10: So our overwhelming force verse is on display right now.

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Speaker 10: And I do think it was the right decision by

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Speaker 10: reasons to go ahead and hopefully eliminate this Iranian regime.

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Speaker 10: They've been killing thousands of Americans for forty seven years.

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Speaker 10: They clearly have ignored international request and orders to not

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Speaker 10: there once again. And bottom line, the Iranian regime was

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Speaker 2: Talking with Tom Wyler the website, Tom Wyler twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: about your campaign. This is a competitive race on bull sides,

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Speaker 10: Other campaign's been going very well. I different myself from

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Speaker 10: And I'm trying to get to the United States Senate,

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Speaker 2: Tom Wyler the website Tom Weiler twenty twenty six dot com.

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Speaker 2: What is it you need right now from those who

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Speaker 2: As always, Tom Wyler, thank you for your service and

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Speaker 10: Thank you very much, John, and thank you for all

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Speaker 2: Coming up next on the show Alpha News, marble filled mansion,

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Speaker 11: Human Can you imagine being the guy who gets to

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Speaker 3: Good morning, John, great show, Best submarine movie of all

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Speaker 2: Top ten easy. You remove Star Wars out of the mix.

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Speaker 2: if you presented a demo, a Democrat with that argument

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much for every tea you know, Amy

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Speaker 2: Again, she's talking about Amy Bach, the ringleader who was

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Speaker 12: I run my business for almost eleven years and we've

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you should do with that, guy said, good feed

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Speaker 6: Good morning, job Justice, thank you for what you do.

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Speaker 6: This is Jonathan on Ramsey. I am a sub mariner,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Adam.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of fraud, I like to give myself credit where

442
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Speaker 2: credit is due. I did predict at the beginning of

443
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: or the end of last year, in the beginning of

444
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: this year that one of the biggest stories that would

445
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 2: emerge throughout the year would be that the fraud that

446
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Speaker 2: we've experienced wherein we lost billions upon billions of dollars

447
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 2: under the watch of Governor Tim Walls, is not isolated

448
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 2: to Minnesota, and this fraud was going to be exposed

449
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 2: across the country and now we're seeing this actually happening.

450
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Speaker 2: A CBS News investigation in Los Angeles County, California, revealed

451
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 2: rampant hospice fraud. As if it couldn't get any more

452
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Speaker 2: gross in terms, I mean, all the fraud is gross,

453
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: but hospice fraud. And this would be despite California efforts

454
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Speaker 2: to curb the issue. The investigation found that over seven

455
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Speaker 2: hundred hospices exhibiting signs of fraud, including geographic clustering, low

456
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Speaker 2: patient counts, and excessive billing.

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Speaker 1: The state has revoked licenses.

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Speaker 2: So far for two hundred and eighty hospices, but the

459
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Speaker 2: problem persists. Some companies operating under the radar are engaging

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Speaker 2: in fraudulent practices. Three years ago, California state auditors sounded

461
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Speaker 2: the alarm that Los Angeles County had seen a fifteen

462
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent increase in hospice company since twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: How is it even possible?

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Speaker 2: Again, is it a similar situation there that what we

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Speaker 2: dealt with. You had individuals, perhaps at the state level,

466
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: that see this massive increase, they go and tell their

467
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 2: super and it gets ignored because they simply don't want

468
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: to deal with it, or they consider this like I

469
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: believe the DFL does here in Minnesota, is just merely

470
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 2: a redistribution of well through fraud. This is more than

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Speaker 2: six times the national average relative to its elderly population.

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Speaker 2: Auditors estimated that La County hospices overbuild medicare by one

473
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Speaker 2: hundred and five million in a single year.

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Speaker 1: The report called out notable.

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Speaker 2: Red flags multiple hospices and one building as I mentioned,

476
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Speaker 2: geographic clustering, high rates of terminally ill pagents later discharged alive,

477
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Speaker 2: excessive billing staff shared across multiple companies. The state says

478
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: it proceeded to investigate and revoke the licenses of those

479
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty hospices, but since then the problem

480
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: has continued to fester. CBS News examined the business and

481
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Speaker 2: financial records of every hospice currently operating in La County,

482
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Speaker 2: applying the same indicators identified by the state. Indications of

483
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 2: fraud have not stopped. In fact, they've grown. The CBS

484
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Speaker 2: News analysis reveals that over seven hundred of the roughly

485
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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand hospices in La County trigger multiple red flags

486
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Speaker 2: for fraud as defined by the state.

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Speaker 6: That's just.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy to me that we're in twenty twenty six

489
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Speaker 2: now and we're only now discovering this one's been going

490
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: on for more than likely decades. In the meantime, a

491
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Speaker 2: luxury home in Hennipon County, once owned by a defendant

492
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: and defeeding our future fraud scheme, now back on the market.

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Speaker 2: If you've got a cool two point one million, it

494
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 2: offers a glimpse into where some of the millions in

495
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 2: solar taxpayer dollars went. And people have asked several times

496
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: as we've talked about this on the show, like are

497
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 2: we going to recoup this money? How are you going

498
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 2: to recoup it? It's gone, The fraudsters don't have it anymore.

499
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Speaker 2: I mean, in this case, this Hannah Markgan, convicted fraudster.

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Speaker 2: You know, she had this home, but now it's gone

501
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: to somebody else. She used money that she gained through

502
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: fraud with feeding our future, and now it's defaulted back

503
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 2: to a different owner and they're going to put it

504
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: up for sale and they'll sell it and we don't

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Speaker 2: get a dimeback. Federal prosecutors say the homes owner feeding

506
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Speaker 2: Our Future again convicted froster Hannah Markgan obtained more than

507
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: seven million from the Federal Nutrition child Nutrition program, intended

508
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 2: to feed children during the pandemic. Property records show that

509
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 2: mark Keegan purchased the Madna home in twenty twenty one

510
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: for one million, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. However,

511
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: records show no mortgage associated with the property at the

512
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: time of the purchase, suggesting the home may have been

513
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 2: bought with cash during the same period. She later testified

514
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Speaker 2: that she was living very large and the American dream

515
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Speaker 2: life reedy. Mark Keegan later forfeited the home as part

516
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: of her plea agreement. Property records show the home was

517
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: sold in twenty twenty three to the current owners. The property,

518
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: located on more than two acres and exclusive Tuckborough Farms community,

519
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: is described in real estate listings at the five bedroom,

520
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: seven bathroom luxury home, featuring high end finishes throughout.

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Speaker 1: I saw the pictures. It's a beautiful home.

522
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: She was indeed living the good life, but as I

523
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 2: played in the audio, she was the victim. This is

524
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: Hannah mark Egan in the middle of conducting her fraud,

525
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: speaking to a group of individuals who were also conducting fraud,

526
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 2: keeping praise upon amy Bach, the ringleader of the fraud.

527
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: But in this she makes it sound like she's been

528
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Speaker 2: the victim all along with how hard she works and

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Speaker 2: how hard she fights while she was conducting her fraudulent ways.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much for everything, you know, Amy is

531
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Speaker 12: for everybody I seen. I've been in this country for

532
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Speaker 12: twenty five years. I ran my business for almost eleven years,

533
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Speaker 12: and we've been pushed around so many times. We're the

534
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 12: only immigrants did not get paid and work for three

535
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Speaker 12: months and work our back off, and we are very

536
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Speaker 12: strong immigrants. We work so hard, and we appreciate one

537
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Speaker 12: American citizen, a true American citizen.

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Speaker 1: I will call her that, you know.

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Speaker 12: And we will fight. We will fight hard. We will

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Speaker 12: be there with you for all the time and with God.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it almost.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like that could have been a speech that was

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Speaker 2: after the conviction started to roll out. She was playing

545
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: the role of the victim at a time when she's

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00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: conducting the fraud and then heaping praise on amy.

547
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: Bach, as if to say.

548
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: Amy Bach was able to correct the error of the

549
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: ways of the individuals that wronged me by giving me

550
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 2: this opportunity to commit all of this fraud. Inside of

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00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 2: the home in which this individual was living eighteen foot ceilings,

552
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: a statement chandelier, floor to ceiling, marble and gold doors outside.

553
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: The property sits on more than two acres and included

554
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 2: a heated in ground pool. Those elaborate marble finishes and

555
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 2: gold doors are not mentioned in the properties twenty twenty

556
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: one listing. A Twin Cities buyer who previously inquired about

557
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: the home told alph News that a realtor said the

558
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: luxury upgrades were added while Mayr Keegan lived there. Oh,

559
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: wasn't enough to have this beautiful, lavish home. She had

560
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: to go to add these wild, gaudy amenities.

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Speaker 1: Apparently with their mental gymnasic.

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Speaker 7: This isn't fraud of them, it's just creative means of reparations.

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00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it sounded like in that clip from Hannah.

564
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: According to Mark Keagan's guilty plea in federal court, she

565
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: enrolled her company Brava Cafe in the federal child Nutrition

566
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: Nutrition program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future between

567
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: September of twenty twenty and follow twenty one. Prosecutors say

568
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: the company claimed to have served more than two million

569
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: meals and obtained approximately seven point one million in federal

570
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 2: program funds. By the way, amy Bach is an evil individual.

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that, because in so many of

572
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 2: these circumstances, what it sounds like is that here you

573
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 2: have this individual who apparently immigrated to the country legally

574
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: established their own business in this Prova cafe, may have

575
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: been struggling.

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Speaker 1: These businesses are hard to stay open.

577
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: Profit margins, not to mention the layers of bureaucracy the

578
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: Democrats have put in to their anti business beliefs here

579
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: in Minnesota, and yet here comes amy Bach selling this.

580
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Speaker 1: Idea.

581
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Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, we had this feeding our future

582
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Speaker 2: program and your Brava cafe can be one of the

583
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: places where you can say that we're, you know, giving

584
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: out these meals to kids and there's very little oversight

585
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: in any of this. You just have to claim that

586
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 2: you've fed so many kids in the state. Will the

587
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 2: pedal federal government through COVID of relief will pay you

588
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 2: for it. I mean, everybody's to blame in this, but

589
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: make no mistake, amy Bach was feeding on these individuals

590
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: and they're being held accountable rightfully so for agreeing in

591
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: to these fraudulent actions. In her application, Mary Keegan claimed

592
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: the restaurant would serve meals to up to four thousand

593
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 2: children per day at its Minneapolis location. However, cobsecutors said

594
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: the claim was obviously false. Instead, authority say Mark Keegan

595
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: submitted fraudulent reimbursement claims supported by fake paperwork and inflated

596
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Speaker 2: meal counts.

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Speaker 1: You know, but remember, I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Going back to a story that we covered earlier in

599
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: the show, I'm sure that as the Minneapolis City Council

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Speaker 2: leadership goes to compile the amount of money that they

601
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Speaker 2: believe Operation Metro Surge cost the City of Minneapolis, it's

602
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: all on the up and up right, they would never

603
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Speaker 2: go and put forward bogus data.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's bogus to begin with. It was

605
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Speaker 1: all self inflicted.

606
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 2: No entity should get a dime in terms of money

607
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 2: to be recouped because of Operation Metro Surge. Any costs

608
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 2: that were incurred is all one hundred percent on the

609
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 2: individuals that went and protested extended the time of Operation

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Speaker 2: Metro Surge kept them from doing their jobs fearmongered individuals

611
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 2: to not go to work, the businesses that voluntarily closed down,

612
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: and the rules whose parents voluntarily kept their kids from that.

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Speaker 1: None of that had to happen.

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00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: Mark Keegan getting back and Feeding Our Future also paid

615
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 2: kickbacks to the Feeding our Future in exchange for the

616
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Speaker 2: nonprofit sponsorship of her company Alten, who was previously reported

617
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: that Feeding our Future mastermind Amy Box's trial, Mark Keegan,

618
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 2: an East African immigrant, told the jury that Bach was

619
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Speaker 2: viewed as a near mythical figure among those benefiting the scheme,

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Speaker 2: and that was certainly apparent in that clip that I

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Speaker 2: just shared with you.

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Speaker 1: Amy Bach was a god.

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Speaker 2: Mark Keegan testified she gave us the American dream life.

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Speaker 2: We were able to own houses, good cars, We were

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Speaker 2: living very large. Mark Keegan recalled the celebration in twenty

626
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: twenty one where a group of East African women saying

627
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Speaker 2: and praised Bach for her role in securing continued funding

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Speaker 2: for the program.

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Speaker 1: Gee.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if that's actually where I pulled that from

631
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: a moment ago. I think it might have been. The

632
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 2: event was held in response to Bo's legal battle and

633
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,439
Speaker 2: the ultimate victory over the Minnesota Department of Education, which

634
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: attempted to cut funding over her suspected fraud.

635
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what that was.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much for every team you know, Amy

637
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 12: is for everybody I've seen. I've been in this country

638
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 12: for twenty five years. I run my business for almost

639
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 12: eleven years, and she told me.

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00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 2: She figured out a way where I didn't really have

641
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: to do much work at all anymore. I just had

642
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 2: to lie on a bunch of paperwork, makeups, some fake documents,

643
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: and I can live a lavish lifestyle.

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00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: And now I am.

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: Look at my beautiful home and those gold doors in

646
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 2: that ing ground pool. Mahrre Keegn testified that Back instructed

647
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: her and others to call MDE and accused the Department

648
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 2: of racism when it tried to stop payments. The pressure

649
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 2: campaign apparently succeeded, as MDE ultimately back down, allowing the

650
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 2: funds to keep flowing. Mark Keegan admitted under oath that

651
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Speaker 2: the racism accusations were indeed.

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Speaker 1: Honey, please money, please, Thank you for hanging out on

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Speaker 1: the show today.

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Speaker 2: If you've missed any portion of today's broadcast, the podcast

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Speaker 2: will be available shortly up on the iHeartRadio app Freedom

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Speaker 2: Friday tomorrow. You're on and off topic comments all morning

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Speaker 2: long and studio Representative Max Reimer, RNC Committeeman Ak Kamara

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Speaker 2: get your talkbacks in early to the iHeartRadio app. You

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Speaker 2: can also email me as well, Justice at iHeartRadio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Have a fantastic Thursday. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: Bye. They knew, and they'd let it happen. Walk out,

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Speaker 1: walk out,