No governor wants to go on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” and be asked, “Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?” But that’s where Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz found himself on Sunday, on the heels of a lengthy, devastating New York Times article that painted a dismal portrait of a hapless state government repeatedly taken to the cleaners by fraudsters: “More than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots” being investigated by federal prosecutors.

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