Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says a conservative group is trying to “smear” him for political reasons in a response to secret audio recordings posted by the Center of the American Experiment.
The nearly hour-long audio recording includes a conversation between Ellison and a group of East African business leaders in 2021, some of whom later were charged in the $250 million “Feeding our Future” federal criminal fraud case.
“Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Attorney General, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family’s campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants,” the center posted on its website. “His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.”…