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Panel examines bill to keep Commerce Fraud Bureau under Commerce after transfer to BCA
Summary
Chair Luke O’Driscoll moved House File 25,22 seeking to preserve the Commerce Fraud Bureau within the Department of Commerce after the governor’s January 3 executive order transferred the unit to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at DPS.
Chair Luke O’Driscoll moved House File 25,22 on March 25 to keep Minnesota’s Commerce Fraud Bureau within the Department of Commerce, seeking legislative resolution after the governor’s January 3 executive order moved the unit into the Department of Public Safety and consolidated it with the BCA’s financial crimes section.
Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Department of Public Safety and BCA Superintendent Drew Evans testified the administrative transfer (completed Feb. 7, per testimony) combined Commerce’s fraud investigators with the BCA financial crimes unit and generated efficiencies, including centralized digital forensics, streamlined case handling…
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