Growing evidence of a massive pattern of fraud in the USA

Mercy Flush ^ | 5/21/2021 | Mercy Flush

[MercyFlush]

This is my personal observation of a pattern of suspicious activities and behaviors going on in the government of a certain West Coast Democrat-operated state that will remain nameless (but it's just south of Oregon).

Approximately ten years ago I observed a massive increase in turnover in the accounting departments and HR departments of state agencies responsible for making grants of state and Federal money to the public. This phenomenon did not seem to impact any agencies that do not issue payments to the public.

In prior years the pattern within state government was that accounting staff would frequently spend an entire 30-40 year career with one agency. This meant they had significant experience and understanding of the financial operations of the agency and this led to efficiency. The same applied to Personnel/HR staff.

Then starting around ten years ago the pattern abruptly flipped. New managers were hired into most accounting and HR offices and they ruthlessly purged or isolated older, experienced staff. These people were replaced with younger, less experienced people who were typically recent college graduates.

The typical tenure of more than half of these new accounting and HR staff at a particular agency is less than one year. For whatever reason they frequently fail probation and are then removed from their jobs. Some of them face inexplicable acts of retaliation by their managers and numerous lawsuits have resulted as affected individuals have fought back.

This phenomenon impacting accounting and HR staff did not exist prior to 2010.

The advent of this staffing issue coincides with the rise in a specific indicator of fraud: Multiple recipients of fraudulent payments listed at the same real or fictional addresses.

This indicator of criminal fraud doesn't seem to exist prior to 2010 and I can find no example of this indicator of fraud in a detailed Google search with a time frame of 1/1/2005 to 1/1/2011.

Because of the persistent instances of high turnover and retaliatory acts by a broad spectrum of managers after 2010 it is not a small logical leap to assume that this phenomenon is tacitly sanctioned by the people who own and operate state government.

Based on my own informal observations I've concluded that the fraudulent acts of likely embezzlement includes a database of approximately 600,000 to as many as 900,000 fictional persons. The purpose of the fraud is quite possibly to move Federal funds from certain accounts transferring them to non-Federal accounts. This amounts to likely tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars being siphoned off from Federal programs over an eleven year period.

Some of these funds are likely being redirected to state government accounts.

A recent case in point: the over $31 billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims issued by California's Employment Development Department (EDD). A relative handful of criminals have been arrested for this fraud and that accounts for less than .5% of the total amount of the estimated fraud. Note that some estimates of the fraud are as high as $80 billion.

No one at EDD has been arrested, demoted, prosecuted, reprimanded, or kicked out of the office coffee club over this fraud. Why? Because I don't think any of the front line staff for EDD were involved. These hard working folks are backlogged trying to clear a massive number of legitimate unemployment claims.

I believe the fraud was automated and that a very few individuals were directly involved in the actual crime. I believe the fraud was automated for the very simple reason that legitimate claims are still backlogged. The fraud was quickly processed because there was no actual review of the claim involved.

Okay, now this goes to the next step.

Someone created a database of up to 900,000 fictional persons. Some of those fictional persons are listed as living at the same real or sometimes fictional addresses.

And starting in 2016 someone got the bright idea to use this list of fictional persons to commit vote fraud. I believe this fraud recurred in 2020.

Here's the Google results that would substantiate my underlying premise:

https://www.google.com/search?q=california+fraud+multiple+recipients+same+address&source=hp&ei=9e6nYIOKFsaT0PEP3u21oAI&iflsig=AINFCbYAAAAAYKf9Bf61SeOyfg2Yygzb9HZNbufKRy1e&oq=california+fraud+multiple+recipients+same+address&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKsCULwKWLwKYKEVaABwAHgAgAGNAYgBjQGSAQMwLjGYAQCgAQKgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwjD2N2vp9vwAhXGCTQIHd52DSQQ4dUDCAk&uact=5

I am not an investigator but I also suspect that an inquiry into vote fraud and into fraud relating to payments from government agencies will inevitably demonstrate a concurrence of fictional individuals and multiple fictional individuals listed at the same real or fictional addresses.

I have no reason to believe that this criminal enterprise has ceased their activities. I also would not be the least bit surprised to see a concurrence between payment fraud and voter fraud in other states.

Remember how Obama was supposedly creating a massive database of his supporters? What if that story was to cover for the creation of a massive database of fictional persons who would be used to finance and influence future elections?

I know some of you reading this are in law enforcement. Please check your records and see if you find a concurrence between vote fraud and payment fraud lists.

That is all.

[kiryandil]

A lot of speculation but not much actual evidence presented by this blog.

Hey, you know - we can just go ask the agencies in question!

They'll cooperate just as hard as the Maricopa County election board is cooperating with the 2020 county election audit!

OCEANS of "cooperation"!!!

              

[Chickensoup]

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[dadfly]

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[Jane Long]

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[Scrambler Bob]

It would take someone that has nerves of steel and the patience of Job to unravel
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What was that case where someone noticed a couple of seconds of computer time that did not jive, and tracked it to a big problem?

I forgot the details. (IFTD)

[11th_VA]

Not just CA:

Over 87% of Claims Investigated in Maryland Confirmed as Fraudulent

BALTIMORE (February 11, 2021) – The Maryland Department of Labor (Labor) today provided an update about the department’s ongoing unemployment insurance fraud detection, prevention, and investigation efforts.

https://www.dllr.state.md.us/whatsnews/uifraudjan.shtml

[CommerceComet]

A lot of speculation but not much actual evidence presented by this blog.

The high and regular turnover in accounting staff is a sign of possible fraud that financial statement auditors and forensic accountants would note. Such a situation has been associated with frauds in the past. Doesn't prove the existence of a fraud but could indicate an area in need of further investigation. Often, these red flags turn out to be nothing but should be explored.

[copaliscrossing]

What was that case where someone noticed a couple of seconds of computer time that did not jive, and tracked it to a big problem?

Sometimes that is the hardest thing to spoof... Date / Time stamps. Not impossible, just a level more difficult.

[WildHighlander57]

What year did they change “personnel” to “human resources”?

[Scrambler Bob]

I found what I was remembering:

Crazy cool true story about an astronomer-turned-sysadmin at Berkeley in the 1980s who decides to track down a 75 cent accounting discrepancy in server usage, and turns into a year-long hunt to track down a sneaky computer spy operating for the KGB. Covers several severe holes in Unix security, but emphasizes that the weakest link in security is almost always from human operators.

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787

[MeganC]

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Also see: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4233063/posts?page=1