So where is the call for Auditors of the fund, for transparency of the fund’s workings, for uploading of the recipients’ names to the Internet? Play Obozo’s own game and ring him round with so many restrictions that he cannot steal from the ‘slush fund.’
“Play Obozo’s own game and ring him round with so many restrictions that he cannot steal from the ‘slush fund.’”
Nice in theory, hard to do in practice. Even a diversion of 5% of the fund to political activities would be $1 billion-a very tidy game-changing sum when allocated to 30 or 40 key battleground races. Who has ever heard of a government-run program where the fraud, waste and abuse was limited to a mere 5%? In Medicaid and Medicare (which are hundreds of billions of dollars), the rate is more like 10%. The number of claimants is likely to in the hundreds of thousands or millions. Unlike the 9/11 fund, which Ken Fineberg also oversaw as “special master”, which had fewer than 3,000 victims/families whose claims had to be adjudicated, this is a monstrously huge task. There’s no way Fineberg can personally review/adjudicate the number involved. Even if he devoted a mere 5 minutes per case, he could only plow through 120 in a 10 hour day. Can you picture families waiting 3, 5 or 10 years for him to get around to their case? No way: inevitably these decisions will get delegated to a large number of bureaucrats. Ken Fineberg may “sign off” on each one (the way members of Congress “sign” letters going from their office use a robo-type pen), but deep in the bowels of the process all it will take is a few strategically placed adjudicators who will receive fraudulent claims from ACORN employees or SEIU employees and approve payments to them that everyone understands will end up in the coffers of the Democratic Party. If Sam Brown from ACORN receives a $100,000 government check that he cashes and then remits $90,000 to ACORN (hey, he deserves a “handling fee,” doesn’t he?) to be divided among 45 employees who all agree to make “individual” donations to whatever campaign they are instructed to do so, who will ever be able to follow such a money trail? It won’t be as simple as just cross-checking BP fund recipients against a list of campaign donors.
In this “anything goes” administration, we can be reasonably certain that “anything goes.” And unlike when a Republican was in the WH, there ain’t no Woodward and Bernstein in the MSM who will be devoting great gobs of time trying to expose this massive corruption.