Posted on 02/02/2023 6:26:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The State of California is attempting to blame former President Donald Trump for the fact that fraudsters stole $30 billion in coronavirus relief payments from the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD).
As Breitbart News reported in 2021, the California State Auditor flagged the EDD for gross mismanagement:
The EDD is the agency through which Californians are supposed to obtain unemployment payments and compensation for maternity leave. However, fraud and mismanagement have led to billions of dollars in losses. The EDD system has sent unemployment checks to prison inmates, while truly deserving Californians wait months for money that they need.
The report itself adds: “EDD did not take substantive action to bolster its fraud detection efforts for its unemployment insurance program until months into the pandemic, resulting in payments of about $10.4 billion for claims that it has since determined may be fraudulent.”
Now, after an inquiry from Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new chair of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, California is trying to claim that Trump’s supposedly weak federal leadership was to blame.
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Probably California was so dumb and stupid that fraudsters could apply from outside the USA. Using a VPN. Get the check sent into a US account. Then transfer the money to where they live. Such as India, Nigeria, and maybe Botswana, Congo and Upper Volta.
They had a Congressional heating on fraud. It’s comical how much money the federal government was defrauded because it could not check simple data prior to sending it to crooks. Things like checking the social security lists of things like the Master Death File or simply finding out of the social security number was real.
You could literally have saved nearly a trillion dollars by using a laptop with these small databases and cross-check them. Or, the feds could offer very simply web services that check a number of things were personal information goes in and the response is yes or no or look further.
Years ago I studied databases and various kinds of welfare fraud. At that time the feds would not check the use of SS#’s across state boundaries. Crooks could collect benefits from Florida, New York and California and have the $$ sent to any address.
Why is there so much fraud allowed? Because just like running up debt these morons just don’t care. They have no concept of $$.
The jackasses living in our country are probably buying this crap. The people shacked up here and scrounging off the taxpayer’s money are the most obnoxious and ignorant people on the planet.
“Checking for real Soc Sec numbers”
Obama used a Social Security number assigned in 1936 to a man born in 1896 in Connecticut.
THEY CANNOT EVEN CHECK THE IDIOT IN THE OVAL OFFICE !!!!!!!
Heck… everyone KNOWS it was Grover Cleveland’s fault!…
$180 billion, yes BILLION, in fraud.
We pay so much in taxes yet we waste with no compunction.
And Trump was responsible for causing WWII.
That is standard operating procedures for Democrats — they cause the problem but always blame someone else for what they did.
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