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Where's the Accountability For California's $31 Billion Unemployment Scandal?
pjmedia.com ^ | 4/24/2021 | rick moran

Posted on 04/25/2021 1:47:26 PM PDT by bitt

It may be the largest fraud case in U.S. history — perhaps world history as well, although the oil-for-food scandal engineered by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s would give the Golden State fleecing of the unemployment system a run for its money.

The stupendous size of the unemployment claims scandal in California is purely the result of incompetence. Individuals, criminal gangs, hackers, and state actors siphoned as much as $31 billion away from the California government. It was a free-for-all that even had criminals locked away in California prisons stealing billions of dollars right under the noses of the guards.

Perhaps the most extraordinary element in this scandal is the lack of outrage not only from government officials, but from the people, as well. California politicians do not appear to be paying a price for this massive boondoggle.

Reason: Approximately 10 percent of the paid claims have been fraudulent, with another 17 percent under suspicion. This will be “the largest fraud investigation in the history of America,” according to one expert interviewed by CALmatters. Part of the blame, it notes, is from “the state’s own failure to cross-check unemployment applications with prison rolls.”

Who are these incompetents who are running this agency? The EDD says it is “one of the largest state departments with employees at hundreds of service locations throughout the state.” It has great pretensions, noting on its website—the same one that continues to crash and can’t process legitimate jobless benefits—that it has “connected millions of job seekers and employers in an effort to build the economy of the Golden State.”

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To: zeestephen

She was also appointed to the agency because she is a money bundler. She funneled millions to Unslee, as well as to the DNC. She is a skimmer who would have been comfortable working for Al Capone.


21 posted on 04/25/2021 7:16:10 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: Fungi
som = scum
22 posted on 04/25/2021 9:00:07 PM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: Glad2bnuts
Money bundler.

Thanks.

That completely explains it since all their personal donations have relatively small maximum dollar amounts.

23 posted on 04/26/2021 6:32:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
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