Posted on 12/05/2022 7:45:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans and unemployment insurance funds in over a dozen states, according to the Secret Service.
The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hacking group known as APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts.
The officials and experts, most speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, say other federal investigations of pandemic fraud also seem to point back to foreign state-affiliated hackers.
“It would be crazy to think this group didn’t target all 50 states,” said Roy Dotson, national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator for the Secret Service, who also acts as a liaison to other federal agencies probing Covid fraud.
The Secret Service declined to confirm the scope of other investigations, saying there are more than 1,000 ongoing investigations involving transnational and domestic criminal actors defrauding public benefits programs, and APT41 is “a notable player.”
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10% for the Big Guy?
China stole over 22 million personnel records form Office of personnel management and they stole your DNA also.
China good, Russia bad, amiright?
Yes. Cutting your child’s dong off is also good.
Per James Cameron, testosterone is bad.
I’m looking forward to double hand cupping my hot cocoa…
Steal or gifted...................
So confiscate Chinese holdings here in the USA and sell them to make restitution. “Joe” won’t because his special “fund” probably got a kickback from them...
Shocked face in permanent lock on.
Yep. Everyone gets a cut. Hunter, the ‘big guy’ and the newest family scum - Biden’s sister. Biden walked French President Macron over to her table to introduce the two. Guess Hunter’s out of commission until the corrupt press can clear his name and finish kissing his butt. Hello Washington Post and New York Times.
Does anyone really believe that it was Chinese hackers and not Democrats and RINOs?
10% for the Big Guy.
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Okay Secret Service, exactly WHAT are you going to do about it? My guess, NOTHING because certain “people” who have ties to CCP also skimmed the $$$$$$.
Looks like SS is doing their key job, Protecting Joey Crappy Pants and his Cronies!!!!
What Democrats are linked to the ‘hackers’?
China is at war with the USA so they are not good, they are our enemy. Russia is destroying bio labs and human trafficking in Ukraine. Russia is doing some good for the world but I do not consider them good. Deep state media has this country all messed up.
Is the Secret Service the last 'intelligence group' NOT infiltrated? Is that why their rental vehicles were burned?
Russia and USA should be natural allies, and compatriots in Christendom post-cold war. Instead, the deep state leftist raging communists like Hillary and the RINO neoCONs NEED Russia as an enemy to further their ends and to stop Putin from protecting Western Christian values which goes against their one-world globohomo satanism. This is why they went so insane at the very idea of Trump and Putin talking to each other. They even demanded the interpreter “tell” on trump. Russia is the lone Christian world super power fighting against the one-worlder deep state that is intent on destroying christianity and western values.
China stole money that the FedGov has ZERO Art 1 Sec 8 power to be giving away to begin with.
We are so screwed.
As long as China did it it’s OK then.
The entire Covid relief funding program is nothing but an invitation to steal taxpayer money. Fraud is sadly the word. Will anything be done about it? Doubtful.
It was only a half trillion dollars.
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