Scott Besson

And we are going to leave no stone unturned, whether it was fraudulent real estate, whether it is money that has been wired overseas.

We will be tracking it to the Middle East and East Africa.

This is why Treasury is involved.

This is what we do.

We track, we follow the money, and we intend to follow it as much as we can, prosecute the individuals no matter where they are, whether they are in the Minnesota government or they are sitting in East Africa.

We will find them.

Given the geographic proximity and the wires to East Africa, we are in the middle of investigations and what we have found is highly concerning.

I cannot talk about ongoing investigations.

But think of the absurdity, think of the absurdity of money being wired from Minnesota by these individuals that could have come from government programs or from excess benefits.

This should not be wired out of the country and we are going to be cracking down on that.

So we have lowered the, it's called a geographical targeting order, the GTOs.

We have used lower thresholds to get at the cartels along the US-Mexico border.

And we view this crime as very similar to the cartels' money laundering, many of the same approaches, many of the same shell companies.

So we will see where it goes out.

from here.

That will be a starting point.

And as I said, Minnesota is going to be the protocols, procedures and the investigative techniques as well as a collaboration with other agencies.

Minnesota is going to be the genesis for a national rollout.

Thank you.

So with the first question, as I said, we have targeted enhanced investigations for four MSBs, money service businesses, in greater Minneapolis, St.