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Bessent turns up heat on sprawling Minnesota fraud schemes as Treasury personnel deploy on the ground

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced financial reporting crackdowns in Minnesota Friday as part of the ongoing investigation into sprawling fraud schemes rocking the state, including deploying Treasury personnel to the ground. The Treasury Department is rolling out a geographic targeting order focused on money services businesses — which are understood as financial operations that grant money transfers, currency exchange and check cashing — to ensure potential illegal activity is reported to the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Bessent said the heightened security will mo...

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