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My observation after over sixty years is the average citizen does not give a d—- about pension fund fraud as it is not their money and they have no investment in the pension fund. They forget taxpayers contribute to public pension funds as do employees. Some of the fraud dollars funnel back to the individual states as campaign contributions. It definitely did in my home state of Rhode Island to Gina Rainumdo who is now Secretary of Commerce awarding billions of chip dollars.

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Gina Raimondo used the tiny state's pensions to fund her grand national political ambitions-- as I explained in my RI investigation in 2013. Stakeholders lost big on her hedge fund gamble and, unfortunately, no one--including me--has found a way to recoup the losses and hold her accountable.

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I've studied Minnesota public pensions for years and found that leaders deliberately destroyed and bankrupted a few plans to get at massive taxpayer bailouts . There are many wrongdoings in our public pensions! dkubes

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The issues exposed in our MN report will not go away--understated fees and inflated performance, to name two. In my experience, people will grow more knowledgeable about pension scamming and demand answers.

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Many of the people and groups you called conflicted are the same who won't talk to me. It's a wall of cancel culture. When our executive director of the LCPR saw problems she said There is no where to turn" My liberal senator won't talk to me.

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Does the FBI care about any nasty knowledge that I have discovered?

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Contact them! You never know.

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