This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal. This week we spoke with former police officer and Minnesota fraud investigator Scott Dexter. He recently testified before Congress about the fraud he investigated in the state from 2014 through 2019. While that was before the COVID-era fraud, for which we now have federal

prosecutions and convictions, Dexter highlights how rampant it was and likely continues to be.

He also explains how the very state that initially wanted him to investigate eventually tried

to block his team's progress as members of the Somali community claimed racism and even filed a lawsuit.

Dexter explains they were trying to track organizations that were receiving the largest amounts of taxpayer dollars.

He also discusses why so many lawmakers at the hearing at which he testified may feel or believe fraud is widespread,

well beyond Minnesota, and is happening in their own states. We often have to cut

interviews down for time during the week, but thought you might like to hear this full interview.

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Now here's Scott Dexter on the Fox News Rundown Extra.

For those who did not listen to this hearing, at which you testified recently before Congress, tell us briefly you worked for the Inspector General within the Department of Human Services, if I have that correct.

And you were tasked with investigating, investigating fraud.

What were you finding during your time between 2014 and 2019?

Well, yeah, I was hired, it was a newly formed investigation unit within the Department

of Human Services, Office of Inspector General, regarding child care assistance funds or CCAP.

And they were realizing that there was fraud going on, and at that time, State of Minnesota

didn't have an actual unit to investigate that. So they created our unit hiring, retired

investigators to start it up. And when we were,

when we first started, our task was to look at the child care assistance program and the funding to see if we could detect any fraud going on.

So, of course, the first thing we did was we looked at who was receiving C-CAP funds.

We would identify the centers receiving the highest amounts

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