Posted on 12/26/2021 12:25:32 PM PST by Signalman
When Congress passed more than $6 trillion dollars in Wuhan coronavirus relief funds through a series of packages from 2020 through early 2021, criminals took notice.
According to the Secret Service, more than $100 billion has been stolen through a number of programs. The agency is working to find and prosecute the thieves, in addition to recovering the taxpayer money.
"While fraud related to personal protective equipment (PPE) was of primary concern to law enforcement, including the Secret Service, early in the pandemic, the release of federal funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act has attracted the attention of individuals and organized criminal networks worldwide. The exploitation of pandemic-related relief is an investigative priority for the Secret Service and its partners," the Secret Service release in a statement.
According to the agency, hundreds of investigations have been launched into potential fraud and theft.
“The Secret Service currently has more than 900 active criminal investigations into fraud specific to pandemic-related relief funds,” Secret Service Assistant Special Agent in Charge Roy Dotson said about the situation. “That’s a combination of pandemic benefits and all the other benefits programs too. Every state has been hit, some harder than others. The Secret Service is hitting the ground running, trying to recover everything we can, including funds stolen from both federal and state programs.”
Recommended Health Expert: Spike in COVID Cases Shouldn't Be 'Major Metric' of Pandemic Anymore Due to Mild Omicron Cases Landon Mion When the initial relief package was passed and signed by President Donald Trump last year, the Treasury Department --which has jurisdiction over the Secret Service -- vowed to prosecute relief fraud.
"The Secret Service, through its network of Cyber Fraud Task Forces (CFTF) and in partnership with Federal and State, local, tribal, and territorial partners, as well as foreign law enforcement, academia, and the private sector partners, particularly financial institutions, are addressing the ongoing criminal activity through prevention, mitigation, and investigation," the agency said.
Brandon got his 10%
Minimum
Did the FIB take the decade off?
They’re busy building Firewalls around the politicians who cashed in
Yeah. The SS? What the heck?
That’s a good explanation for the SS involvement in this. They are busy making sure none of the trillion in theft can be traced back to the “Big Guy.”
The SS is a department of the treasury organization. They investigate financial crimes like counterfeiting and fraud.
Criminals, huh? Are these criminals incorporated in Delaware?
Maybe Joe needs to put his Vice President in charge of a committee to investigate this bending of the laws.
She’ll get to the bottom of it, that is for certain!!..///
Also cybercrimes.
Every politician who voted for the allocations should be charged a percentage of the losses since they didn’t protect their taxpayer’s money.
They can’t even find people looting upgrade stores in front of many news cameras and many people videoing with phones.
Shad White is a relentless pitbull hunting down the thieves in MS.
Government doing work that it created for itself.
Seems like every government program they design to help people in trouble gets ripped off by criminals and the government office that designed the program has no idea how to make sure that doesn’t happen ... just like Medicaid and Medicare.
I googled the name of a guy from Oakland who had been arrested as part of a group who were robbing Asians in San Jose, and up popped is name as a 19,0000 dollar PPP SBA loan recipient.
To the FBI the only dangerous citizens were all in and out of the capital on Jan 6th.
Yeah...like Pfizer management
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