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Criminals are Cashing in on COVID Relief Funds
Townhall ^ | 12/25/2021 | Katie Pavlich

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: covidrelief; criminals

1 posted on 12/26/2021 12:25:32 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Brandon got his 10%


2 posted on 12/26/2021 12:31:18 PM PST by o-n-money (Not my president: WRONG Not the president: RIGHT)
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To: o-n-money

Minimum


3 posted on 12/26/2021 12:37:19 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: Signalman

Did the FIB take the decade off?


4 posted on 12/26/2021 12:37:31 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

They’re busy building Firewalls around the politicians who cashed in


5 posted on 12/26/2021 12:40:09 PM PST by digger48
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To: Libloather

Yeah. The SS? What the heck?


6 posted on 12/26/2021 12:58:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: digger48

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.”


7 posted on 12/26/2021 12:59:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The SS is a department of the treasury organization. They investigate financial crimes like counterfeiting and fraud.


8 posted on 12/26/2021 1:01:23 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Signalman

Criminals, huh? Are these criminals incorporated in Delaware?


9 posted on 12/26/2021 1:02:56 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Signalman

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!!..///


10 posted on 12/26/2021 1:03:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Organic Panic

Also cybercrimes.


11 posted on 12/26/2021 1:06:27 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Signalman

Every politician who voted for the allocations should be charged a percentage of the losses since they didn’t protect their taxpayer’s money.


12 posted on 12/26/2021 1:06:50 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: Signalman

They can’t even find people looting upgrade stores in front of many news cameras and many people videoing with phones.


13 posted on 12/26/2021 1:14:18 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Signalman

Shad White is a relentless pitbull hunting down the thieves in MS.


14 posted on 12/26/2021 1:19:53 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school camncelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Signalman

Government doing work that it created for itself.


15 posted on 12/26/2021 1:21:42 PM PST by foxfield (When the going gets tough, the tough get going!)
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To: Signalman

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.


16 posted on 12/26/2021 1:50:26 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Signalman

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.


17 posted on 12/26/2021 2:01:17 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Libloather

To the FBI the only dangerous citizens were all in and out of the capital on Jan 6th.


18 posted on 12/26/2021 2:04:25 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Signalman

Yeah...like Pfizer management


19 posted on 12/26/2021 2:17:01 PM PST by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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