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**SEPTEMBER 28, 2022**
Minnesota AG Nominee Wants to Defund Corporate Law Enforcement
BY AUSTIN AHLMAN
GOP corporate attorney Jim Schultz has hammered incumbent Keith Ellison
over crimes that aren't in his office's jurisdiction. His solution?
Stop pursuing crimes that are.
In the increasingly
fierce
race for Minnesota attorney general, Republican challenger Jim Schultz
has embraced a strange vision for the office he hopes to take from
incumbent Keith Ellison. In comments first reported
by Axios last week, Schultz suggested that Ellison and his predecessors
have spent too much time chasing "frivolous" lawsuits that have
harmed the bottom line of targeted business. Instead, Schultz would
"reallocate resources from [those] divisions" toward aiding county
attorneys who lack the resources to prosecute crimes. In other words,
Schultz intends to defund corporate and nonprofit legal enforcement.
The comments were reported the day before federal authorities announced
indictments in a sweeping fraud investigation
against the sham nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which managed to steal
millions of dollars in federal aid meant to ease child hunger during the
pandemic. While the Minnesota attorney general's office has limited
jurisdiction over fraudulent receipt of federal funds, Ellison's
office appears to have set the federal investigation in motion by
tipping off
the FBI about the fake charity's suspicious behavior.
While Schultz's comments are eyebrow-raising in light of the massive
federal fraud case that Ellison's office helped pull together, they
are indicative of the candidates' respective backgrounds. While
Ellison has spent most of his career in public service-first in the
state legislature and U.S. Congress and now as attorney
general-Schultz has spent the entirety of his brief career in the
private sector, advising the same companies he believes are getting too
much heat from the attorney general's office. Over just ten years
practicing law, Schultz has worked for prestigious corporate legal firms
Kirkland & Ellis and Dorsey & Whitney, and as an attorney and in-house
counsel for investment firms.
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must go back decades. BY DAVID DAYEN
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The first open-ended strike in Starbucks Workers United history led to
the replacement of the store's manager. BY SAURAV SARKAR
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