Thaddeus Cleveland to Newsmax: Minnesota Fraud Money Will be Traced

Investigators will likely be able to quickly trace any misdirected public money tied to an alleged Minnesota fraud scheme, retired Border Patrol agent and sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland said on Newsmax Sunday, while warning that failures by state leadership to detect or stop wrongdoing could put Americans at risk.

“So much money that’s poured into communities through various programs from the federal level, state level, and even local level, we lose track of it,” Cleveland told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”

Still, he said, following the money should not be especially difficult, given modern tools.

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