Posted on 01/21/2023 9:13:29 AM PST by Deadeye Division
“major purpose of any government was to redistribute wealth”
Your neighbor is correct—for most of human history that is exactly what governments have done—stolen from the peons to enrich the plutocrats.
Our Founding Fathers had a different vision—but it was a truly revolutionary one—and it is not surprising that it could not last long.
So I’m not reading where the article says how old the mother was when she died over 50 years ago. But it’s very safe to assume the VA kept sending out checks to a person who would easily be well over 100 even 110 years old.
Are there no safeguards at all? Is there not any checks and balances available to do follow ups?
“Ferrin must also repay the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs what she stole, currently valued at $461,780.”
Gosh, if she doesn’t pay anything, they might extend her non-punishment. This is a real deterent to other grifters.
More on the goobermint than her, imho.
Or she could move to San Francisco and claim she has black slave ancestors. The state will reward her $2 million. /spit
Yup
Slap in the face of justice, old woman card played
President Harrison Bounell?
The federal government robs us continuously, and here they pretend to take the moral high ground against someone who gives it back to them?
FWIW, she did wrong. Not saying she didn’t.
But the hypocrisy is staggering.
I would think there are many thousands—perhaps even millions—of cases like these for Veterans or Social Security fraud—that are still not known.
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I agree, especially since I have reported on 3 cases that I knew of personally. (Same perps in one of the cases)
All those dates and numbers and far as I can tell there is not enough information to tell how old her mother would have to be if she were still alive. They tell you when the mother died but not how old she was when she died.
Since you mention Obama......he and Michelle had several SS numbers, according to “The Obama Timeline”.
You are right, they probably won’t, but the bankruptcy court might.
Steaks a half million and gets a slap on the wrist for it because she’s “old”. I’m old too.... older than she is.
Nut I’m not a thief.
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You think thats all the VA fraud? Did you know that in a common law state a woman can claim spouse death benefits by having people say she was presented as common law spouse by man while alive. When I first moved to Alabama I introduced myself to my neighbor who was an elderly white guy at least in his late 70s, in a wheelchair, and as I lated found out was dying soon of heart related problems which he received service related disability. He then introduced me to his “wife” who to my surprise was a fairly attractive young (around 30) black female who just happened to be wearing an all white pants suit like a nurse or CNA would wear. A few months later he is in the ground, the house was sold by his wife who was no doubt now entitled to spouse benefits for life from her “husband” who had received professional 24 hour home care at little or no cost to him, but hundreds of thousands of dollars will be paid over the 40-50 years to the “wife” in a sham marriage. Don’t think for a minute that this is not still happening.
Nobody thought that the lady would be getting old and be pass the normal age of death? If the person who died was 45 for instance, they didn’t think of see if it she was alive within the 50 years? And if the lady died at 65, you meant idiots would think, the lady is 115, we need to see if she is still alive.
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