Biden gets tough on pandemic fraud; promises more money, time to prosecute scammers

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The proposals, which the president is announcing Thursday, mark a new level of commitment to sniff out the cataclysmic levels of fraud that analysts say plagued the big pandemic-assistance programs.

is proposing more money to go after pandemic fraudsters, and calling on Congress to pass legislation giving investigators and prosecutors more time to bring criminal cases and new powers to recover money from those they can’t prosecute.also asked Capitol Hill to pony up money to help those whose identities were stolen by fraudsters.

One of those is offering to let states keep 5% of any fraudulent money they recover. The theory is that states don’t have an incentive to recover money right now because most of the fraud took place with federal dollars. Giving states a cut of the money could entice them to get serious. Particularly frightening is the amount stolen by criminal syndicates abroad, including ones backed by adversary governments in Russia and China.

States paid unemployment benefits based solely on an applicant’s claim of having been put out of work. Old, clunky systems and instructions to forgo even rudimentary checks made it easy for fraudsters to file reams of applications.

 

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He's going after the fraudsters, but not the perpetrators of the pandemic? How convenient for his handlers.

It’s going to be easier to find and praise the few that obeyed the rules!

He needs to stop spending all our taxpayer’s money outside the boundaries of the US and take care of home and close the borders

A whole lot of Democrats are getting nervous.

I love how you used “sniff” in this headline. Goes perfectly with the Sniffer in Chief. BidenSniffsKids

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