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Very glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

Jim Garrity is away, as you know.

And in his place today, Craig Collins, longtime radio and podcast host. You can hear him every evening in the Houston, Texas area, on KSEV. And Craig, it's good to have you back.

Thank you. Thrill to be back, man. Good to have you. All right. So much to get to today where there always is, but let's start in Minnesota. You know, at the beginning of the year, we had all these allegations about the just billions and billions in fraud from Medicaid

and other programs, quality leering center being the centerpiece of that and just kind of the

image of that forever and ever, but you had the autistic issues in addition to the daycare

and so much more. And so there have been some prosecutions here,

not nearly enough, mind you. But as is always the case when there's a lot of people involved

in a scam like this, once somebody does get caught, well, the attitude is, well, I'm not going

down for this on my own. So that's kind of where we are here. It would appear with

Amy Bach, the founder of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, who was convicted in March of last

year of conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud for allegedly helping restaurant owners file

fake or inflated claims during the pandemic to steal millions in child nutrition funds from

the government.

It's a $250 million scam.

And now Amy Bach says that Ilhan Omar was in on it.

She spoke to the New York Post.

She is in jail, still awaiting sentencing somehow, even though she was convicted more than a year ago.

But she says that she denies participating in the fraud and insisted she tried to warn state officials.

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