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Al Franken: Because people go to prison for having, you know, a bag of marijuana. These are people who are responsible for ripping…

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
Because people go to prison for having, you know, a bag of marijuana. These are people who are responsible for ripping off Medicare to the tune of a couple billion dollars, and they are not in prison.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken criticizes the lack of prison sentences for major healthcare fraud offenders.

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