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Woman at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case gets nearly 42-year prison sentence
A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
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According to PBS News’s source item, Woman at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case gets nearly 42-year prison sentence, A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
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- Woman at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case gets nearly 42-year prison sentencePBS News - 2026-05-21T18:28:02+00:00
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