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Gavin Newsom torches $1M in taxpayer cash to thwart probes of fraud

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In the world of Gavin Newsom, fraud investigations are something to fight, not assist.

Hence we have the spectacle of Newsom lavishing another $1 million in taxpayer money on “defending” against federal probes of fraud in California.

Good grief. So taxpayers will shell out another mil –– to help block federal investigators from protecting taxpayers.

That’s several layers of wrong.

Here’s what Newsom should do instead: (genuinely) help clean up the fraud that’s run wild in California during his two terms as governor.

Newsom has no defense for the stratospheric levels of fraud on his watch, so he’s attacked investigators, cried partisanship, pretended his state has sufficiently addressed fraud and then changed the subject.

Just this week, the gov’s office told the California Post that fraud investigators have targeted anti-Trump states for political........

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