Emanuel Cleaver actually said...

If you steal some potato chips from 7-Eleven, you go to jail. If you steal $20 billion from the public and send people to the poor house, you go to Bermuda to play golf.

Context

Cleaver criticizes the lack of accountability for financial crimes affecting communities.

09/24/2019

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