From Washington Examiner: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight.
Hawley grilled Ellison on the fraud scandals gripping Minnesota, focusing on a 2021 meeting between Ellison and several leaders who were later charged in the Feeding Our Future nonprofit organization’s COVID-19 fraud scandal, which was secretly caught on tape.
The exchange erupted when Hawley said Ellison deserved to be jailed for his actions.
“The people who ran the Feeding Our Futures program came to you in your official office in the state capitol on December 11, 2021, and asked for your help in getting investigators off their backs,” Hawley said. “You said to them, ‘Send me the names of all these folks who are investigating.’ You said to them, ‘Send me their names and I’ll take that list, and I’ll call the person over at education who is investigating them and say, ‘What’s going on? Why am I getting these complaints?’”
Ellison said the accusations that he helped or agreed to help the Feeding Our Futures leaders were untrue, accusing Hawley of “cherry-picking quotes” from the recording.
“My team assisted with the information that led to the prosecution and conviction of these people,” he claimed.
Read more at Washington Examiner
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