“And so like the rumors of them funding Al-Shabaab, they're real, because they've been able to funnel all this money.”
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“Yeah, 100%, because a lot of these daycares, there's six, seven violations, and they're still continuing to give funding to these daycares. And they have the same name, the same person has opened up. I was in one of their fraud committee meetings, the same per…”
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Shirley: Minnesota fraud numbers came from an insider state capitol leak
“The man who helped me like lead the investigation himself, David, he had all the paperwork from the Capitol. He had somebody from inside the Capitol leaking in the information. So there was my like fact check per se was he had a source from inside the Capitol.…”
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“And so they're not really voting for what they actually believe in. They're voting for who's going to keep funding them and who's going to keep writing the checks.”
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“I've had mares in California tell me about that who've given me firsthand accounts of them knowing the family members of people inside of the government opening up nonprofits, and then that's how they get a lot of campaign money.”
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