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Emanuel Cleaver: “If you steal some potato chips from 7-Eleven, you go to jail. If you steal $20 billion from the public and send people…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
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.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri
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Editor's note · Context

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

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