Posted on 12/22/2021 1:34:57 AM PST by blueplum
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.
The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview. The Secret Service didn’t include COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department....
...Most of that figure comes from unemployment fraud. The Labor Department reported about $87 billion in unemployment benefits could have been paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud....
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I wonder the exact same thing!
Farm it out to the private sector to recover the funds for a commission.
This is to be expected.
People have been stealing from Medicare/Medicade for years.
Every major government program is subject to theft.
It probably leads to congresscritters, their extended families, and pharmaceutical company execs and their extended families.
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