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US giant Fannie Mae fires 200, mostly Telugus, over salary fraud:
India Today ^ | 4/16/2025 | Priyanjali Narayan

Posted on 04/16/2025 6:39:10 AM PDT by vespa300

US mortgage giant, Fannie Mae, has laid off 200 employees, mostly Telugus, over salary fraud, according to a report. The employees allegedly misused the company's matching gift programme by collaborating with Telugu associations. An Indian-American Congressman has sought the company's response on the mass lay-offs.

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To: PGR88
My brother worked for Standard Oil and did some time in Nigeria.

Payoffs were expected. When my brother would fly in country , there would be a Standard Oil employee that would greet him at the airport, that person would handle all required payoffs . So much goes to the security guys , the Customs guys gets X amount, so on and so forth. No payoff, do not pass Go.

21 posted on 04/16/2025 7:11:27 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Red Badger

22 posted on 04/16/2025 7:13:36 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: vespa300

This used to be called “Telegu.” I guess they are changing everything in India. Bombay->Mumbai. Calcutta->Kolkata.


23 posted on 04/16/2025 7:13:44 AM PDT by x
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To: PGR88

Indians are generally nefarious and lawless.


24 posted on 04/16/2025 7:15:01 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Speaking of nefarious and lawless, Mr. Congressman, you are an American. You are not an Indian-American Congressman. You are also, a POS.


25 posted on 04/16/2025 7:18:49 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Red Badger

Telugus...you known, the ones who do the needful.


26 posted on 04/16/2025 7:21:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (All we want is the same deportation policy that Martha's Vineyard has. That's it.)
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To: vespa300

No overseas, foreign workers should be on the job for any USA agencies, period.

But you all know this.


27 posted on 04/16/2025 7:29:00 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan (Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
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To: nwrep

They are heathens in the classic sense of the word.

Do not expect Christian or Western values from them. They are from a different culture. One which does not recognize or even respect Western civilization -except for what they can take from it.


28 posted on 04/16/2025 7:29:20 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: PGR88

It has to do with them being heathens and pagans.


29 posted on 04/16/2025 7:36:04 AM PDT by caddie (We all need to become Trump and become Captain Obvious too.)
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To: Justa

In doing business internationally I always selected countries that had a Christian and/or Catholic heritage. At least in such places the bad guys knew they were doing bad.


30 posted on 04/16/2025 7:36:29 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: pierrem15

“There seems to be an overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of fraud and scams associated with Indians...”

In my area, it’s the Somalis.

Total sleazebags, frauds and scammers.


31 posted on 04/16/2025 7:36:38 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve
Here is his brother ...working as a Microsoft support tech


32 posted on 04/16/2025 7:47:22 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeon<p.s)
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To: vespa300
There are four possible candidates, my money is in Ro Khanna:

Ro Khanna

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Shri Thanedar

Suhas Subramanyam

33 posted on 04/16/2025 8:02:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
BTW, in January 2025, Apple fired around 50 employees.

So, I think they are going to challenge everything the Trump administration does.

34 posted on 04/16/2025 8:10:22 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: vespa300

Hiring people from India is a mistake for many companies. It starts slow at first, but they soon will take over the office as they only hire their own.

You go from 10% to 15% in less than 6 months and before long, you feel like the foreigner in your own country.


35 posted on 04/16/2025 8:59:29 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: PGR88

There is a reason over 50% of scammers are from India...


36 posted on 04/16/2025 9:01:29 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: vespa300

“Sounds like they were remote employees in India. Setting up fake charities to cash in on Fannie Mae’s matching donations. They get creative over there on how to rip off Americans. Robo calls, fake charities, you name it.”

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FTA:

“The 200 Indian-American staffers were employees of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, the biggest American company in terms of assets. Fannie Mae laid off 700 staffers, including those for fraud, as part of its restructuring efforts. It is a US government-run enterprise.

The alleged ethical violations are linked to irregularities and misuse of Fannie Mae’s matching grants programme.

This payment is an extension of the salaries of the employees. It is a compensation to what the employees donate under the matching gift programme.

The now-sacked employees allegedly collaborated with nonprofit organisations — some linked to the Telugu community in the US — and falsified donations to exploit the programme and access company funds.

Several employees are accused of colluding with the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) to deceive companies and misuse funds, according to The Times of India report.”

“Similar allegations surfaced against employees at tech-company Apple earlier this year. The company reportedly terminated over 100 employees, including around 50 at its Cupertino headquarters, after uncovering a monetary fraud scheme designed to inflate employee compensation.

Authorities in the Bay Area had issued warrants against six of the fired Apple employees — none of whom were Indian.

However, reports indicated that several Indian employees were involved in misusing Telugu charity organisations in the US for fraudulent activities.

The scheme reportedly involved employees pretending to make donations, which were later returned to them. Apple’s matching contributions were retained, and the fictitious donations were written-off on the defendants’ tax returns, defrauding the state of California in the process.”

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It appears that the employees were NOT in India in a call center. They may even be American citizens.

My question is why so many employees of Fannie Mae are from the same ethnic group. Doesn’t sound like they had a very diverse workplace, does it?


37 posted on 04/16/2025 11:53:28 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

I wonder if these are the same people involved in this:

Fannie Mae Fires Over 100 Federal Agency Employees for Facilitating Housing Loan Fraud
The Last Refuge ^ | April 9, 2025 | Sundance
Posted on 4/12/2025, 12:20:57 AM by SoConPubbie

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4310524/posts

Or a different group, doing different fraud.


38 posted on 04/16/2025 11:57:56 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

According to one of the comments to the earlier piece I just posted.

“Bill Pulte (Director of Fed Housing Agency) was on Laura Ingraham. He said he couldn’t explain all the accusations of the fired employees because they’re just starting the investigation.

He did say many were working 2 jobs. He also mentioned employees gave donations to an ‘internal company charity’, and got a kickback for doing that.

Finally, he mentioned that, based on IP addresses, he could tell they were having friends swipe their ID card in at the office (in DC, I guess?) but they were actually logging in from China. He showed video of the DC office completely full of workers, so I guess people were trying to pretend they had returned to the office, and had another job somewhere else. Not sure if the China location is important, or just that they weren’t in the office as required.”


39 posted on 04/16/2025 12:00:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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40 posted on 04/16/2025 8:18:55 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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