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Jeff Sessions: Fraudulent speech, if it amounts to an attempt to obtain a thing of value for the person the fraudulent speech is…

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
Fraudulent speech, if it amounts to an attempt to obtain a thing of value for the person the fraudulent speech is directed... is absolutely fraud and can be prosecuted.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions states that fraudulent speech aimed at gaining value is prosecutable.

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