Secret Service says pandemic fraud totals
nearly $100 billion
Washington Times,
by
Stephen Dinan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/21/2021 10:00:16 AM
The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that fraudulent coronavirus pandemic benefit claims are “nearing $100 billion,” and the agency named its first-ever national coordinator to oversee its investigations. It’s been nearly two years since the virus first slammed into the U.S., and Uncle Sam has spent trillions of dollars on relief, including assistance to businesses, bailout money for state and local governments, and new unemployment benefits.(Snip)At nearly $100 billion, the Secret Service’s estimates of total fraud are lower than others have suggested.
The Washington Times last month reported that 40% of the more than $700 billion spent in the unemployment insurance benefit program may have been bogus
Reply 1 - Posted by:
tangles 12/21/2021 10:07:54 AM (No. 1014164)
This might have something to do with businesses not getting people to work. Well duh!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/21/2021 10:09:02 AM (No. 1014166)
Small potatoes compared to far bigger scheme called BBB. From which we are just saved ( I hope, that is).
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/21/2021 10:11:59 AM (No. 1014169)
Hey - - here's an idea! Let's let the federal government create and distribute trillions of dollars!
What could possibly go wrong?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
qr4j 12/21/2021 10:22:46 AM (No. 1014187)
Why is the Secret Service dealing with this? I am not saying it shouldn't be dealt with. I just didn't know this sort of thing was the purview of the Secret Service.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56 12/21/2021 10:31:00 AM (No. 1014206)
No Democrats will be prosecuted. It's Trump's fault, right?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 12/21/2021 10:31:19 AM (No. 1014207)
The democrats always prefer very expensive solutions to imaginary problems ,that way it leaves more money available for the grift.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2021 10:56:40 AM (No. 1014257)
Yes, and most of it is done by Pfizer, Moderna and J&J in concert with CDC, NIH and FDA and the ghoulish leadership of Dr. Fraud.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/21/2021 10:57:59 AM (No. 1014258)
A hundred billion is a molehill compared to the $10 TRILLION handed out and around by Trump/Biden as "stimulus" and "paycheck protection" and whatever else. And, of course, that green fertilizer spread before January 20, 2021, has had no contributory qualities to our current, and apparently growing problem of inflation.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
spacer 12/21/2021 11:19:57 AM (No. 1014306)
This entire man made sick joke would have been over within 2 months of President Trumps second term had the world evil not stolen the national election.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 12/21/2021 11:38:03 AM (No. 1014329)
This was easily predictable, and even I could have put in measures, controls, preventative measures, early detection and quick analysis of problems as they come ... but then I sell fish behind a counter in a grocery store. These guys get paid the big bucks and sit in the palace of power to actually DO those things. Yet because they spent the great majority of their efforts accusing one another, investigating one another, lying, cheating and thieving along with creating much of the havoc within the hearts and streets of the people, they have long forgotten what their purpose is. Their actual JOBS are going undone. And we let them. We are powerless.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Right Time 12/21/2021 11:54:15 AM (No. 1014358)
The same Dems who pee'd that $100B away denied Trump those funds to finish The Wall
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/21/2021 12:25:19 PM (No. 1014414)
More like trillions, right?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/21/2021 2:22:57 PM (No. 1014556)
The fraud includes every government agency, hospital, and most doctors. I wonder if the Secret Service is focused on the biggest fraudsters in the country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/21/2021 2:55:11 PM (No. 1014609)
The entire program was designed to be defrauded by all the takers, that’s how the Democrats pay off their useful idiots!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 12/21/2021 6:07:23 PM (No. 1014869)
No one is answering #4’s question but that was my first thought as well. Why is the Secret Service involved in this?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/21/2021 8:41:47 PM (No. 1014998)
How else will Demonrats fund their elections next year?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mifla 12/22/2021 5:30:53 AM (No. 1015208)
The government hands out money with no checks and balances to prevent fraud, and then has to spend more money investigating fraud. Only in America.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
learner 12/23/2021 6:03:46 PM (No. 1017030)
Anyone surprised? everything the goobermint does is rife with fraud, abuse and payoffs to the right connected people who kick it back to dirty politicians.
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Our government handed out vast amounts of our money to obvious fraudsters so they would appear to be doing something to help, and now they'll spend another fortune pretending that the bad actors, many of them located overseas, will return the money.