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‘The Biggest Fraud in a Generation’: Hundreds of Billions in ‘Covid Relief Funds’ Have Gone Missing
Becker News ^ | 1/21/23 | staff

Posted on 01/21/2023 2:49:52 PM PST by CFW

The United States government presided over what is being called the “biggest fraud in a generation” during the Covid pandemic.

According to the latest reports on the Covid relief program, between $163 billion and $400 billion out of a total of $900 billion in funding has gone missing.

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“Those huge payouts—and serious weaknesses in federal temporary benefit program design—attracted criminals intent on ripping off the system. The new federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program was the most vulnerable to abuse,” they added. “It offered weekly checks to independent contractors, the self-employed, and others who worked too little to qualify for regular state Unemployment Insurance (UI) checks.

1 posted on 01/21/2023 2:49:52 PM PST by CFW
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10% for the Big Guy.


2 posted on 01/21/2023 2:50:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Murdering off useless eaters has its benefits, apparently.


3 posted on 01/21/2023 2:51:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CFW

It isn’t missing. They just don’t want to find it.

The whole e gdamn system is corrupt.


4 posted on 01/21/2023 2:52:45 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dagnabbit! You beat me to it.


5 posted on 01/21/2023 2:53:01 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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Hundreds of Billions in ‘Covid Relief Funds’ Have Gone Missing

Pocket Change... ergo, peanuts

6 posted on 01/21/2023 2:53:37 PM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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Gee. It just makes ya just wanna get out there and bust your azz so you can pay more income tax to these useless morons..... /s


7 posted on 01/21/2023 2:54:00 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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So this is why we keep bumping into the debt ceiling.

There are so many places needing a deep audit, so many programs needing to be eliminated.


8 posted on 01/21/2023 2:54:12 PM PST by lurk (u)
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Nobody, and I mean NOBODY saw that one coming. Nope uh, uh.


9 posted on 01/21/2023 2:54:47 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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‘The Biggest Fraud in a Generation’: Hundreds of Billions in ‘Covid Relief Funds’ Have Gone Missing

Just like they were supposed to…

10 posted on 01/21/2023 2:55:39 PM PST by Magnatron
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From top to bottom, the whole damned system is corrupt.


11 posted on 01/21/2023 2:56:06 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Its not "missing"!

It was funneled to the DNC just as planned.

12 posted on 01/21/2023 2:56:24 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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the best way to know how to scam a system

is to know how it works

inside job


13 posted on 01/21/2023 2:57:22 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: CFW

This surprises whom?


14 posted on 01/21/2023 2:58:35 PM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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Hey govt remember those eighty gazillion Agents you wanted to hire to squeeze the American people a little better? Here’s a job for them. Hundreds of billions worth.


15 posted on 01/21/2023 2:58:52 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: joshua c

In the garage.
Next to the corvette


16 posted on 01/21/2023 2:58:53 PM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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You can bet the politicians got a big piece of it.


17 posted on 01/21/2023 2:59:20 PM PST by Revel
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And the wife and I have been cheated out of at least 3 stimulus payments.


18 posted on 01/21/2023 3:03:31 PM PST by George from New England
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check with FTX & SBF


19 posted on 01/21/2023 3:04:53 PM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Might be a good idea to check in the corvette trunk


20 posted on 01/21/2023 3:10:03 PM PST by waredbird
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