Posted on 09/17/2024 8:07:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Remember that time Congress spent trillions of dollars we didn't have to provide relief from the unnecessary and illegal lockdowns? And then actual Americans only received a pittance while the resulting inflation murdered our paychecks after we were mercifully allowed to eventually go back to work?
Yeah, it's so much worse than that, according to Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas). While the name of Sessions's subcommittee is a mouthful, what they've uncovered has got to be the biggest theft in the history of — well, everything.
Sessions said the theft adds up to "Half a trillion dollars. Maybe more. Much of it lost to criminal actors and our enemies. Often using comically simple tactics.”
“Insiders, including those who worked for state workforce agencies, conspired with organized crime factions and other individuals to defraud state UI programs and the states did little to stop them,” a House Oversight Committee report released late last week said. “Some states even hired individuals convicted of identity theft to process UI claims.”
Meanwhile, Presidentish Joe Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — which even he finally admitted did no such thing — provided "the largest single infusion of funds" in the history of the IRS so it could go after waitresses' tips and transactions adding up to more than $600 a year on your Venmo or PayPal accounts. Because we can't have people who are living from paycheck to paycheck get away with robbing Uncle Sam of a hundred bucks here and there. But half a trillion dollars going to thieves and scammers here and abroad? Washington has a shrug emoji for that.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I need a job in government so I can work a year and retire a multi-millionaire.
Just run for Congress, not only are you guaranteed to be a millionaire, you are treated like royalty the entire time at taxpayer expense.
You don’t have to do any actual work. Just collect a salary.
Apparently that happens quite frequently in the federal government. They even budget for it in agency budgets. Nobody gets fired. It goes to arbitration by agency rules, and not to courts.
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented scams
A few hundred million here, a few hundred million there... pretty soon you’re talking about some real money!
“not a penny we can cut from the budget”
doj.gov
The thieving Somalis colluded to recruit other Somalis to open
phony Child Nutrition Program sites throughout Walz’s Minnesota.
<><>They fraudulently claimed 1000’s of children a day were fed within just days or weeks of being formed.
<><>they created dozens of phony shell companies to enroll in the federal program
<><>phony shell companies were invented to receive and launder the $250 million fraudulent proceeds
<><>they falsified documents to get their hands on tax dollars
<><>They submitted fraudulent data to document the number of children and meals served
<><>They submitted false invoices purporting to document the purchase of food served to phantom children
<><> The Somalis submitted fake attendance rosters purporting to list the names and ages of children being fed
<><>rosters were fabricated and created using fake names from a website called “www.listofrandomnames.com.”
<><>the federal program only reimbursed for meals served to children,
<><>so the conniving Somalis used an Excel formula to falsify the age column of the rosters.
Despite knowing the claims were fraudulent, the Somali’s phony, “Feeding Our Future,” submitted fraudulent claims and then disbursed the fraudulently obtained Federal Child Nutrition Program funds to the individuals and entities colluding in the scheme.
<><>In exchange for sponsoring these sites’ fraudulent participation in the program, “Feeding Our Future” received more than $18 million in administrative fees to which it was not entitled.
<><>In addition to the administrative fees, Feeding Our Future employees solicited and received bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies sponsored by Feeding Our Future.
<><>Many of these kickbacks were paid in cash or disguised as “consulting fees” paid to shell companies created by Feeding Our Future employees to make them appear legitimate.
The thieving Somalis went on high-end spending sprees purchasing luxury cars and property
Judge Warned Tim Walz to Stop Lying About $250 Million Fraud by Minnesota Somalis
Breitbart ^ | 8-7-2024 | Tim Moran
Posted on 8/18/2024, 9:27:13 AM by dennisw
Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann in 2022 admonished Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for making “inaccurate” and “false” statements in claiming he forced the governor to continue making payments to the scandal-ridden Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which is at the center of a scheme to steal $250 million from a coronavirus-era welfare program.
Breitbart News reported about how Gov. Walz’s lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million for a program meant for children in need.
In September 2022, the Justice Department charged 47 Somali immigrants in Minnesota with stealing $250 million from a coronavirus relief program meant to feed needy children. Only $50 million has been recovered as of June.
Breitbart News reported in June:
The scheme involved the 47 defendants, whom prosecutors say created an umbrella group called “Feeding Our Future” and then created numerous sub-groups that were advertised as bringing food to needy children during the pandemic. The accused allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for relief funding at mosques across Minnesota. Once they obtained the funding, they reported feeding thousands of children every day and supplied rosters of non-existent children to the government to show their outreach.
One such fraudulent feeding center was so brazen that it just copied all the names from a website called listofrandomnames.com and sent that list to federal authorities to claim that it fed the people on the list, prosecutors said.
An audit by a nonpartisan watchdog found that Walz’s Department of Education failed to conduct proper oversight over the program. Walz has claimed that he was forced to continue making payments to Feeding Our Future, which Judge Guthmann strongly slapped down in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Just for general information, here is a website where you can search businesses for how much PPP they got. The numbers are staggering. My brother in law’s small business, which never closed, got almost $70000. The company where I worked before I retired, which had almost no real employees (they contracted everything; only employees were family members), got millions. They never even slowed down their business.
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/
Start a charity or foundation and let it be known that if people donate to them they get special attention.
Have your kid paint some stick figures and sell those at a gallery.
Have your daughter get a job for a firm getting government contracts you vote on.
Have your other son become a “consultant” for a semi state owned foreign entity and make $50k a month doing nothing, and you’re one of the key folks voting on billions being sent to this country in the form of foreign aid.
Have your spouse give million dollar speeches and let it be known that if hired you will give those hiring them special attention/consideration.
Invest in businesses and be the one to decide on legislation/spending which impacts these industries.
If a senior bureaucrat, make sure certain folks get what they want and then have them hire you as soon as you retire.
If in a senior position, realize, there are “ethical waivers” which get handed out like Halloween candy, so don’t worry about flagrant conflicts of interest. The rules only apply to those that are GS-14 and below (waivers are nearly non-existent for the peons).
Yes, there is a serious corruption problem in our government, but we don’t call it that and it’s completely legal if you hire the right lawyers and do it the proper way.
Gov Gavin Newsom stole $1.2 billion just on masks he said were to be made in China by a BUS company called BYD. They make other things but they were to make 200,000 masks a month. Not a one ever showed up and no account of the money was revealed.
I think this stolen money was Newsom’s buy in to run for president.
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