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Jeff Sessions: “Wasn't it Willie Sutton--they said, 'Why do you rob banks?' And he said, 'That is where the money is.'”

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
Wasn't it Willie Sutton--they said, 'Why do you rob banks?' And he said, 'That is where the money is.'
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions references Sutton's quote to illustrate health care fraud's profitability.

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