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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Fraud Scope | Allen Jackson Now | May 22, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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The stock market is doing well and the job market
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Remains strong.
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But there's a less well known economic indicator
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That has economists very concerned.
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The total u.s.
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National debt is now significantly larger
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Than our gdp.
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The gross domestic product.
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It's like having an income of $85,000
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A year and holding debts that far exceed that.
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That could work for a few years, but not forever.
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There's a big
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Contributor to the debt,
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Which is only recently getting noticed.
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It's the fraud.
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Or in plainer english, it's called stealing.
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Every day, as much as $1.4 billion of government
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Money is stolen.
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That's the money we pay with our taxes.
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It's a big part of the reason
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Why the total federal debt is approaching $40 trillion.
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And while officials often blame gangs, organized
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Crime, immigrants and ordinary americans,
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Much of that stealing is from inside the government.
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For example, the park service employee who gave guided tours
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And was caught on camera stealing $1,200.
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When authorities look deeper at her history,
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They found that she'd been doing that for years
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And that she had stolen $250,000.
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That's a quarter of $1 million
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That went into her own bank account.
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The stealing is rampant.
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The losses are staggering, and the fraud
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Has become an acceptable norm by too many people.
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Government employees are the people
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We trust with our money.
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But they also have inside access that the federal, state
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And local level.
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And for many, it's just far too easy to steal.
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Well, we're living at a time
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When observable truth is often denied in the public square.
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It's like the sun is coming up in the east,
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And there's some talking head
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With lots of letters at the end of their name going.
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Well, actually, it comes up in the south.
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It's disorienting.
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Well, i'm grateful for the steps
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That are taken by our current administration
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To cut waste and fraud, to expose the looting of america.
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As i've said, it's stealing.
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But what i think about the people
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That have been elected to office, there's
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A group of public servants that i despise
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And despise is the kindest word i have.
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And it's not about their political party.
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It doesn't matter to me whether they're republican or democrat.
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These elected officials were given the authority
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To serve the people by the people.
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It's a sacred trust.
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Yet these elected officials
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Use their office primarily for personal gain.
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If they use their elected
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Position to accumulate resources for personal gain.
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I don't have any respect for that.
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The way i understand public service
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Is that we go to washington or wherever we're elected
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To serve, to represent our constituents,
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To bring a better outcome to whomever
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It is we're representing.
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You know,
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I suppose the old fashioned term for that was statesman,
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The expectation that the elected official will go with
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The good of their constituents
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As the primary factor for their decision making.
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Well, far too many elected officials have had their snouts
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In the trough,
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Gaining wealth on the back of hard working, taxpaying people.
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If, for instance, we have a member of congress
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Whose net worth increase is $30 million per year.
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That should not be all right with us,
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Especially if their state
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Is at the center of multiple high profile cases of fraud.
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Well, i'm referring to representative
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Ilhan omar of minnesota,
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Who, by the way, now says she's not a millionaire.
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She blamed her accountant for making the accounting error.
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A newly revised disclosure shows she and her husband went
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From $30 million in holdings to less than $100,000.
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That's not an accounting error.
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That's deceptive accounting.
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We have
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Found out there was brazen fraud taking place in minnesota.
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Even money that was meant to feed
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Hungry kids and children with autism in minnesota.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly stolen.
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Well, how about the medicaid dollars?
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The trump administration has suggested that the broader
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Suspected exposure in minnesota could reach into the billions.
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I would expect the governors and the mayors of the state,
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Where billions of dollars
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Are being stolen from taxpayers, to be outraged at that.
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But that's not the response we've seen.
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We should no longer tolerate government
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Excess abuse or sloppiness.
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I don't want to hear any more of the words.
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I want to see measurable outcomes.
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I'll tell you what i'm really watching for.
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It's a biblical word.
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It's repentance.
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You see, if there's no repentance,
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There's no real change.
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Repentance carries with it two meanings.
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It's a change of mind.
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Which means i've been thinking about this the wrong way.
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And it's a change of behavior, which means
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I've been acting the wrong way.
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So what i hear from elected officials, real repentance
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When i hear them say,
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I brought about this wrong and i have behaved wrong,
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Then i'll trust them to oversee what's next without repentance.
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They're simply stalling.
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They're trying to run out the clock
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Until they can be in power again.
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If politicians who lacked integrity wasn't bad enough,
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How about the legacy media members
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Who don't say a thing about the corruption,
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The fraud, the stealing that's taking place?
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What would it take for somebody like the atlantic,
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The washington post, or the new york times to say
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That this is a problem, to say that the billions of dollars
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Being fraudulently taken from the american people is bad.
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We as the church can't sit quiet in this season.
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We have an assignment
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To stand for the truth, the search for it,
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Because the solution to society's ills.
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It is a political. it's spiritual.
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We must have a faith that is living and vital,
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A faith that requires
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Situational awareness of the world we're living in.
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We've got to tell the truth in terms of today.
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We must determine to be champions of the truth.
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Well, the federal deficit approaching $40 trillion.
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Alarms are sounding and economic circles.
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The stealing is close to $1 trillion a year.
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And growing.
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In a moment, we'll be joined by jeff clark.
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He's the vice president of litigation
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At the oversight project.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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The federal debt is so large
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That it's hard to fathom what $39 trillion represents.
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But consider this it was 1982 when the federal debt
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First passed the $1 trillion mark,
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Which means that between 1982 and 2026,
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We've taken on $38 trillion more.
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We pay more in interest on the debt
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Than we do for our defense budget.
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It's one thing to get spending under control,
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But it's quite another to get stopped.
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The stealing.
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In washington, d.c., the oversight project targets
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Corruption, stealing and fraud within the government.
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And we're joined now by their vice
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President of litigation, jeff clark.
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Welcome to our program, sir.
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It's good to be here.
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Pastor allen, thank you.
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The headlines have been focused on california and minneapolis,
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But very little has been said, at least publicly,
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About the stealing from within the government.
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Maybe we start by you telling us what you know about how vast
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That fraud inside government is.
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It is vast.
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And, you know,
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I wish i could tell you the details of cases that were
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Referred by omb to, the justice department
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Or to inspector general about, that.
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If you're not aware, i left, omb about two months ago,
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So i was serving in the in the white house
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And was privy to a lot of these reports and interface,
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Frequently with, doj's when that was really in its
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Heyday for the first six months or so of the trump
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Administration in 2025.
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And the other thing, probably a lot of your viewers
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May not understand about omb.
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They just think it's about, the budget is that the,
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The council on inspectors general
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Actually has a reporting relationship into omb.
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So omb, gets to work with, and in many ways
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Direct
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The activities of the inspectors general, which are tasked
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With, pastor allen rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
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So, you know, there was a major initiative.
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Let me let me take them off. right.
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So we had doj's looking at waste, fraud and abuse.
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And then,
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Working with us, we had our own independent efforts to do that.
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We had the inspectors general looking at that.
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Now, a new division at
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Doj has been created to combat fraud.
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And in trump 45, i spent more than two years at, at doj.
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So it's it's interesting to, to, to observe the creation
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Of a new litigating division that doesn't happen every day.
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The last time it happened was the first time i was at doj.
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There was a new litigating division,
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Created the national security division after nine over 11.
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And then the last thing to note is that, obviously,
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The president gave vice president vance
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A special tasking to look at waste, fraud and abuse.
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So, you know, we have a lot of,
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More eyes on this problem than we had before.
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And we also have, you know, great independent journalists,
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You know, like nick shurley, who ferreted out things
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Like the quality hearing center in minnesota.
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So it's a it's an exciting time.
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And, you know, it's just it's so sad to see
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How much the federal taxpayer gets ripped off by
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Unscrupulous individuals.
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You know, there are endless examples.
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The one that i mentioned in the open described
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A national park employee who over the years
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Stole $250,000 from people who were paying to go on tours.
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They caught her on videotape.
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How are most of these
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Federal workers caught, and what percentage of prosecuted?
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Not as much as you might think.
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And, you know,
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There's a referral process there to doj for that doj then
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To to exercise its prosecutorial discretion on that.
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You're reminding me managing, the national park service that,
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You know, this is not a new phenomenon either.
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So if i go back to my service in the bush 43 administration,
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When i was at the environment division,
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There was a famous case that involved,
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Something where, you know, there wasn't someone directly
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Lining their pockets, but it was someone doing,
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Something that was incredibly harmful to the national economy.
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Namely, they were planting links hairs,
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So that the endangered species act would get triggered
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As to particular regions. right.
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And the the upshot of that, alan, is that,
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You know, the the incredibly onerous regulatory
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Regime of the endangered species act would kick in.
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This can block, you know, the ability to to,
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Develop things on your land block
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The ability to get for federal permits
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So that you can make changes to your lands,
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Like, build a new road or put up a building.
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And so, you know,
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This caused a lot more damage than than $250,000, right?
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So that the amount of,
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Fraud in terms of dollars, whether you consider it
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In terms of its impacts, like this example
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I just gave about the the lynx, the canadian lynx, or,
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You know, it's it is something where somebody,
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You know, dipping their hand into the tail
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Or redirecting money to themselves
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That they're not entitled to get, is just, you know, vast
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And you know, i can also say that when i was in trump,
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45, in the civil, the running, the civil division,
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You know, the false claim,
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All false claims act cases run through the civil division.
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And if private people filed those cases, the civil
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Division gets to decide whether to let them
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Keep going forward or not.
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And, you know, i saw a lot of health care abuse,
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Going back then.
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And, you know, we we did our best even in trump 45
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To try to throw, the book at that, that kind of conduct,
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You know, until president trump launched the doj's committee
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And then later appointed j.d.
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Vance to oversee the investigations of fraud.
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It's just all too easy to steal.
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And i get caught.
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Vance says that they're going after the thieves.
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Full steam ahead. listen to his comments.
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We've got 280 law enforcement officers
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Working on this problem.
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We really have the most accelerated, aggressive
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Anti-fraud operation
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That we've ever seen from the federal government.
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And again, it's because the president,
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United states, empowered his team to go after this.
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Will they be going after the
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Inside government fraud as well as the outsiders?
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I think so, and i think, that the inside fraud
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Is especially disturbing, right, because people take
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An oath of office when they join, even, you know,
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People who are not at the tippy top of the executive branch.
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And so, you know, it's a it's a breach of the public trust.
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If you're talking about
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A private individual who is, you know, skimming
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Money out of, medicare, that's bad.
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That's terrible.
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But, you know, i, i consider it to be multiplied
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When you're talking about public workers
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Who are abusing the public trust of their office.
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And, you know, that that's the kind of thing where,
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Especially if criminal cases are brought against them
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Becomes the basis for sentencing enhancements,
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And it should work like that.
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Well, jeff, we need to take a short break here.
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Will you stand by for another segment?
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I will, thank you.
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And if you got your phone in your head,
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You can try logging on to ag now.com.
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Or you can send me an email.
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You can see how easy it is in the animation.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the vice president of the litigation
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At the oversight project, jeff clark.
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Do you have any sense of why it seems to have become so easy
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For so many people to think it's okay
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For people to steal from the government?
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Are the penalties too small?
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Too few and far between.
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What is it?
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I think that, the the penalty regime is healthy.
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Not that it couldn't be increased even more.
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But i think the biggest problem
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Is the fact that the government is just too darn big.
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Alan, you know, the more fingers,
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The more pies it puts its fingers into
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And the deeper it it, smashes its fingers into those pies,
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The more opportunities there are for fraud.
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And, you know, you just you wind up in a spot where
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There aren't enough people to be watching everybody
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On a daily basis.
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And, you know, the, the,
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The moral standards of the country
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Are such that a lot of people, if they're not being watched,
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If there's not,
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You know, a direct control, if there's not an automatic audit
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That's going to, find them out and they know about that and,
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You know, they're tempted to to get something for themselves,
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And you know, that that's bad enough.
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But, you know, obviously, the industrial scale,
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Things we're seeing in california
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That have been exposed and in minnesota,
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I mean,
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Those are the things that really need to be prioritized.
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And that's that's where this new division
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And doj comes in, because they will look across the field
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And they'll prioritize
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Getting the biggest bang for the buck in terms of
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Where they put their enforcement resources
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So that they cut off as much fraud as possible.
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When cases like the clearing center and the many fraudulent
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Hospice centers in california become so public,
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Does that drive more inside calls on theft
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Going and going on in government,
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Or calls to your organization to track them down?
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Yes. so, you know,
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We will, receive tips from whistleblowers and,
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You know, they'll contact us.
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They can also report things to the inspectors
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General of the relevant
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Departments, like the inspector general of hhs,
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Based on on the example you just gave, california would be,
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A good place for for people to start.
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But, you know, we if we're contacted where
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We'll be happy to,
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To talk to anyone who comes in through our website, and,
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You know, try to, to,
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Think about whether we might want to represent them
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Or if, you know, our resources don't permit that.
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You know where to send them so that,
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Their tips are processed by the appropriate folks
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As more cases of fraud are becoming public.
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Do you expect that the fraud will slow down,
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Or will people just get better at hiding it?
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Well, i think what i've observed over time
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Is that if there's a particular area that is very profitable,
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But then there's the enforcement initiative against it.
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It's not like you can ever entirely root out
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This problem, right? it's about our fallen human nature.
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But then, you know, the criminal elements
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Shift in to some new scam that they create.
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I should mention something else,
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Which maybe not a lot of people know.
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But i did mention the false claims act.
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So the false claims act and and the way it works goes back
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All the way, you know, centuries to england,
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To a latin term called key town.
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And so if you're someone who is inside an organization,
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Whether it's a government organization
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Or a, a private organization,
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Where the private organization has a contract
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With the federal government, right?
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It has to have some nexus to the federal government
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Fisc being raided.
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Then you can come forward.
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You become what's called a relator.
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And if the federal government recovers money
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Or you fighting for them on their behalf, recovers money,
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You get to keep a portion of that.
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And the rest of it goes into the fisc.
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So there's a system that was created long ago
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By the, the english king that would allow,
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You know, incentives to be created to sort of avoid,
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You know, fraud ripping off the government and,
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Like,
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If they needed to do that back at a time
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When their governments were tiny.
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Think how much, you know, more important that tool is now
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When the federal government is just vast beyond measure.
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Well, iowa's
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Republican senator joni ernst, she put it this way.
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Any bureaucrat busted for treating government
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Benefits like a self-service buffet should be served
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Their next tax payer funded meal behind bars.
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You're the vice president of litigation.
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She's on the right track.
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And since you mentioned you know her as an iowa senator,
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You know,
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One of the the main proponents of the false claims act,
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Being interpreted to, to weed out, waste, fraud and abuse,
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You know, to help her get what's,
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They deserve in terms of, like, pointing that out,
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Bringing it to the federal
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Government's attention so that the recovery can happen
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Is senator chuck grassley.
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He's been on that, cause for for decades.
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And, you know, he follows it very carefully.
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So if there's any attempt
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To kind of make, you know, some kind of, reduction
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In scope of that statute, he, he shows up to oppose it
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Because he thinks it's a vital tool.
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And like i said, you know, it's it's a been a cause of his for
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A very long time.
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Well, jeff, thanks for your time today.
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If someone listening knows of some egregious abuse
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Or fraud, where would they go to report it?
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Well, like i said, you know, you if you know that
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What part of the government it hits, you can then google, or,
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You know, use ai or whatever your search method
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Is to look up,
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The inspector general for that department, for that agency.
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That's one thing you can do.
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Or, you know, if if,
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You know, you you thought that, i might be able to be helpful.
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And my colleagues,
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We have a number of lawyers at the oversight project.
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We could talk to you and, like i said, you know,
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We might point you, in the right place to to the government if,
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You can't quite figure that out.
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And sometimes, again, given how vast the government is
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And the structures are so complicated, you may be like,
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I don't know what agency this is in,
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But we could help you track that down. awesome.
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What's your website's name?
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It is.
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It's your gov.org.
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So just a word.
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It's your, why you you are gov.
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Gov.org.
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And there are no spaces between the the words.
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But we look forward to reporting on the progress
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You make in the months ahead
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And hope you'll come back and tell us more when you can.
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Thank you pastor.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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Thank you for taking the time
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To send your emails, your questions and thoughts.
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We always look forward to them.
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Kimberly from texas road.
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Why did the comedians and talk shows
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Think they should talk about our president the way they do?
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It's sad.
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I agree, it's sad sometimes.
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It's infuriating.
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It seems to me that comedians,
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Even education, have become more propaganda centers
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Where they attack worldviews that they don't agree with.
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They don't have to use logic or common sense.
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They're just filled with anger and bitterness.
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It's easy to change the channel,
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And if you do so, you can change your attitude.
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Lee from georgia wrote
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Parents are now being held liable for allowing access
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To guns for their children when they go to school
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And murder classmates and others.
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Shouldn't rogue prosecutors and judges be held liable
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For releasing violent criminals back onto our streets?
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Well, i'm not an attorney.
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I don't know the ins and outs.
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I am a citizen, and i know
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That we elect our prosecutors and many of our judges.
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I think if we'll pay more attention
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At the ballot box and be more involved in the process.
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This is an election year and election season for primaries.
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I hope you're planning to participate.
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If you're not participating,
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You are forfeiting the rights of citizenship.
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Finally, fred from katy, texas.
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What happens to good people when they die?
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Well, the question is not complete
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Because good is not
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The characteristic that determines our eternity.
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It's our relationship to the person of jesus of nazareth.
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And so good alone is not sufficient.
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I'm confident there will be good people in hell.
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Kind people, generous people, polite people.
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It's our relationship with jesus that determines our destiny.
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It's why we want to share
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The good news of what jesus has done in our lives.
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It'll help out our friends and family members.
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Thanks for the questions and for spending
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A few minutes of your day with us.
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God bless you and have a good evening.
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