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Tom Wheeler: “We must be vigilant. What we have been doing, as I said before, is playing Whac-a-Mole on this.”

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
We must be vigilant. What we have been doing, as I said before, is playing Whac-a-Mole on this.
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Tom Wheeler

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Wheeler discusses the ongoing challenges in combating fraud in government programs.

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