A Fox Business segment featured Stuart Varney questioning Lori Chavez-DeRemer about a Labor Department strike team sent to Minnesota to investigate alleged unemployment insurance fraud, including claims that stolen taxpayer funds may have been transported overseas.
Varney opened the exchange by asking about the origin and purpose of the federal investigation.
“Who sent a team from the Labor Department to investigate what’s this about fraud tourists?” Varney asked.
Chavez-DeRemer responded by stressing the purpose of the Unemployment Insurance Fund and condemning the alleged misuse of taxpayer money.
“Well, unemployment insurance fraud is something that the American people don’t deserve. You know, the Unemployment Insurance Fund is to be whole for one specific reason, and that’s to bridge the gap between when people lose their job at no fault of their own that they can find a new job, and it’s to bridge that gap when you steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the American taxpayer, we need to find out what is happening,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
She said steps were already taken to demand information from state officials and initiate a federal investigation.
“So I did send a letter the Department of Labor, through the Employment and Training Administration, sent a letter to Minnesotans to say, we want to know what is happening, so please produce those reports,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
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She said a specialized team would be deployed to determine what occurred.
“So we’re going to send in a UI strike team to find out exactly what’s happening on the ground. We will not tolerate fraud under this administration,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
Varney then pressed Chavez-DeRemer on reports suggesting the fraud involved international transfers of cash.
“Was the this fraud tourism I’m interested in that I’m told there were Somalis loading up suitcases with dollars and flying to Africa to deliver it. Is that accurate?” Varney asked.
Chavez-DeRemer said those claims are part of what investigators are seeking to verify.
“Yhat’s exactly what we want to find out. And those are the reports that we’re demanding by the first of January,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
She said the investigation would focus on tracing the funds and reporting the findings publicly.
“So when that UI strike team goes in, we can do that full investigation and report to the American people exactly where those dollars have gone,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
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🚨 BOOM! President Trump just surged a STRIKE TEAM into Tim Walz’s Minnesota to investigate massive unemployment insurance fraud from Somalis, Sec. of Labor Chavez-DeRemer confirms
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