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Luke Rosiak

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Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

I mean, one of the guys was making like $10 million a year or something like that.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

His name is Omar Omar.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And that's like all we know about him.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

There's Mohammed Ahmed and Ahmed Mohammed.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And these things get all jumbled up in the government computer systems.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

They don't have birth dates for a lot of these people.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

If you look them up in public records, it just says January 1st because they may not even know when they were born.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And so it is important, I think, for policy members to keep that in mind.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

Our systems are susceptible to fraud by foreign-born people because our systems have a harder time tracking them, not to mention the fact that they also have the ability to send money abroad in places where we can't track it and also flee abroad.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

But it's just a sort of a parallel world that I think fraud investigators and police and policymakers work

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

are totally uncomfortable or don't have the knowledge to navigate, which is in itself just, I think, an intolerable policy deficit.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

One of the guys chased me down a hallway saying, I'm going to tell everybody you're racist.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And we're just saying, well, we're just asking about the government program.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And we're just knocking on doors, whatever the dollar amounts are reported in the government database.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And he says, you're only knocking on Somali doors.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

I'm just going to tell everybody you're racist.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

And it did kind of seem like a threat.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

It seemed like a strategy.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

Like, that's my strategy.

Morning Wire
The Ohio Fraud Investigation That Couldn’t Be Ignored

Pretty on the nose there.