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Gerry Connolly: “The fact that we have five cure letters, no prosecutions, and one reference to the Justice Department, they declined to…”

On the recordNovember 1, 2011
The fact that we have five cure letters, no prosecutions, and one reference to the Justice Department, they declined to prosecute, might suggest to a layman, if not a Member of Congress, that we are not taking this subject seriously at all.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly highlights the lack of prosecutions in human trafficking cases.

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