Top House Republican Tom Emmer accuses Minnesota AG Keith Ellison of lying about benefit fraud: ‘Got something to hide’

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer publicly accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday of lying about a 2021 meeting with later-convicted Somali fraudsters. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on welfare fraud in Minnesota, Emmer (R-Minn.) lambasted Ellison over audio of the meeting in which the AG told the future felons , who were claiming at the time to be victims of racist government policy, that “I got your back.” Ellison has claimed that the scammers ensnared in the