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White House pitches $1.6 billion plan to combat Covid relief fraud
NBC News ^ | March 2, 2023 | ZOË RICHARDS AND SARAH FITZPATRICK AND ELYSE PERLMUTTER-GUMBINER AND SUMMER CONCEPCION

Posted on 03/02/2023 1:50:16 PM PST by truthkeeper

The White House on Thursday laid out its plan to target pandemic fraudsters and recapture stolen relief funds distributed under both the Trump and Biden administrations.

A top White House official said the goal was to provide $600 million to investigate and prosecute systemic pandemic fraud, a similar amount to bolster fraud prevention and $400 million to help victims of identity theft...

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Oh the irony.
1 posted on 03/02/2023 1:50:16 PM PST by truthkeeper
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To: truthkeeper

Seize assets from the thieves to also cover the $1.6B spent to catch them.


2 posted on 03/02/2023 1:54:14 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: truthkeeper

When are we going to jump off this crazy train?

Is he kidding? Someone steals money from the government and more money is allocated to go after those who stole the money! There already aren’t funds in place for this to take place?

I’ve said it for years - there isn’t a shortage of money in DC - there is too much.

This guy needs to be locked up NOW!

Hey - you and I are on the same page - glad to see you here!


3 posted on 03/02/2023 1:56:46 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: truthkeeper

Sorta like paying the bank robbers


4 posted on 03/02/2023 1:57:44 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: mikey_hates_everything

So they pretend to find the thieves amongst themselves ?


5 posted on 03/02/2023 1:58:26 PM PST by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: Thank You Rush
Glad to see you too my friend.

And I hear you...stop the insanity.

6 posted on 03/02/2023 1:59:07 PM PST by truthkeeper
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Bonnie & Clyde should have been so lucky...

Tyranny loves fraud...
It’s like robbing the blind...


7 posted on 03/02/2023 1:59:42 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: truthkeeper

Weird, I thought we had that already.

https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/

Either way we need more money to have oversight on the committee that we already gave money for oversight...


8 posted on 03/02/2023 2:09:28 PM PST by Trinity5
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White House pitches $1.6 billion Covid relief frau.

Fact check completed


9 posted on 03/02/2023 2:14:30 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: truthkeeper

So we don’t have a criminal justice system, with agencies galore and “public servants” out the wazzu already?
We need more money, to get the money?


10 posted on 03/02/2023 2:20:07 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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Someone steals money from the government and more money is allocated to go after those who stole the money!

I can save them lots of time and money. Go after the government agencies and employees who illegally distributed tax payer funds to ineligible recipients. They had a fiduciary duty and responsibility to take care of the government funds they were charged to distribute.

Make them pay it back.

That's the only way to derail the crazy train.

11 posted on 03/02/2023 2:21:04 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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I think the money should be deducted from the Paychecks of Federal Employee’s


12 posted on 03/02/2023 2:27:56 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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We need more money, to get the money?

Says everybody at the IRS.

13 posted on 03/02/2023 2:28:31 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: truthkeeper

There’s no way it would take 1.5 billion to audit this and there is still plenty of money left from the Covid money already appropriated to do the job.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 2:32:01 PM PST by circlecity
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But how much money will the next admin spend on finding people who stole these funds ?


15 posted on 03/02/2023 2:32:42 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: jcon40

If they don’t try to recover the investment, would the gov’t net anything back if anyone is caught?


16 posted on 03/02/2023 2:50:14 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: truthkeeper

It keeps getting more insane...


17 posted on 03/02/2023 2:55:59 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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They will recover 40m and claim a great savings to the tax paryer.


18 posted on 03/02/2023 3:12:10 PM PST by pas
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To: usurper

“”Go after the government agencies and employees “”

Amen..You have to wonder IF government employees are as reckless with their own funds as they are with OURS! We used to hear about the number of government employees who owe IRS taxes. Are we to assume they paid up or we just don’t talk about it? We hear the word “accountability” over and over every day. Where’s “accountability” when it comes to government employees?


19 posted on 03/02/2023 3:21:21 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: truthkeeper

When throwing good money after bad money becomes more bad money.


20 posted on 03/02/2023 3:21:21 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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