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Dick Durbin: “Unemployment and the foreclosure crisis have created prime opportunities for fraudsters to prey on financially…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2010
Unemployment and the foreclosure crisis have created prime opportunities for fraudsters to prey on financially vulnerable Americans.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin discusses the exploitation of vulnerable Americans during economic downturns.

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