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Questioner asks Attorney General Ellison whether he recalled saying ‘we have done enough’ about a $9 billion fraud
Summary
At a committee hearing, a questioner said Attorney General Ellison had told a critic “of course we have done enough” after a $9 billion fraud was mentioned and asked if he remembered the exchange. The transcript contains a later line, “I remember the conversation,” but the speaker of that reply is not clearly identified in the record.
At a hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources, a questioner told Attorney General Ellison that when a critic raised a $9 billion fraud, Ellison had replied, “of course we have done enough,” and asked whether Ellison remembered the exchange.
The questioner quoted the earlier reply in full: “of course we have done enough. We're doing more every single day. This is a political matter. This is not a serious thing,” and then asked, “Do you remember saying that, Attorney General Ellison?” The phrasing in the record frames the quoted language as the questioner’s recounting of a prior exchange rather than a new statement by the questioner.
The transcript then records the line “I remember the conversation.” The speaker label in the transcript does not clearly identify who delivered that reply; the record provided does not unambiguously attribute that line to Attorney General Ellison or to another participant.
The exchange in the transcript centers on whether Ellison acknowledged or minimized the referenced $9 billion fraud. The questioner presented the alleged remark as evidence that the matter had been treated as “a political matter” rather than as a serious issue, putting the emphasis on accountability and recollection.
The transcript segment provided does not include any formal motions, votes, or further public comment on the point. The record supplied here ends after the ambiguous reply, and no additional clarifying statement or named speaker attribution appears in these segments.
