Federal officials warn billions stolen
from COVID unemployment benefits through fraud
Washington Times,
by
Haris Alic
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/22/2022 8:57:42 PM
Federal officials warned Tuesday that as much as $80 billion in unemployment benefits could have fraudulently gone to cybercriminals and international crime rings. Officials from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Secret Service say improper accountability measures at the federal and state levels aided the fraud throughout the coronavirus pandemic.(Snip)International syndicates and cyberhackers quickly set up fake profiles, using pilfered personal information, to steal billions from the federal government. Much of the tactics were already well known to law enforcement agencies since cybercriminals had previously used them to bilk money from disaster relief programs. The criminals had previously not targeted unemployment because of the small nature
Reply 1 - Posted by:
paral04 2/22/2022 9:00:57 PM (No. 1079909)
Gee, you think? The way they threw money around I am surprised it is only $80 billion
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/22/2022 9:06:11 PM (No. 1079915)
Warn? I thought the warning was supposed to come before the event so you could prevent the event.
$85 B to the taliban (or whatever they call themselves) billions to Ukraine (vindeman’s birth country) billions for illegal immigration and billions to destroy truckers and other working people and whatever’s left over can go the huncher s bi.den exotic dancer impregnation fund, bilbo s clitton, proprietor.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/22/2022 9:11:20 PM (No. 1079919)
The federal government exists to steal money from you, I, and our children. It used to protect us from foreign invasion and criminals.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/22/2022 9:12:16 PM (No. 1079920)
The feds were so quick to give out money for emergency unemployment to the states, they didn't bother to monitor the use of the funds. The states eery in such a rush to pay out their extra unemployment windfall, they didn't bother to actually check to see if the person actually qualified for the unemployment benefits. Anyone and everyone could collect unemployment, no questions asked. Employer protests against an employee getting unemployment benefits was ignored. Unemployment Officials blamed any backlog in cases on Covid. Now, two years later they are trying to sort it out and addressing employer protests even though benefits have been paid and long spent. Typical government incompetence!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
judy 2/22/2022 9:32:18 PM (No. 1079933)
They should pretend they’re Trumps tax records & receive immediate action….
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pros7767 2/22/2022 9:49:33 PM (No. 1079945)
If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny!
WTP were scammed...again!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 2/22/2022 10:18:30 PM (No. 1079957)
And who is at fault for the stolen unemployment benefits - why the federal government for not checking whether those who received benefits were eligible. Does this administration ever do it’s job?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
qr4j 2/23/2022 12:20:04 AM (No. 1080006)
For a few months back in 2020, I processed the fraudulent claims charged against my company. Some of the claims were for people who OWNED the company at the time. Some employees who were fraudulently indicated as being unemployed were hit twice. These were people who were still working. We laid off NO ONE during the pandemic.
Guess how many people the State of Illinois had processing fraudulent claims? Two. I was to email two people at the State with the requested information -- on an Excel spreadsheet. This is the way the BROKE State of Illinois processed fraud. Such sophistication was barely past the stone-table stage of technological evolution. LOL
Who runs Illinois? Democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/23/2022 4:23:01 AM (No. 1080067)
I received a nice e-mail yesterday from a gentleman in Nigeria politely requesting my name, address and phone number so he could send me ten percent of some fortune, Maybe it's part of the unemployment funds coming back but I declined his offer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mifla 2/23/2022 4:51:26 AM (No. 1080075)
OK, Federal officials, what are you going to do about it?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/23/2022 5:06:47 AM (No. 1080083)
This fraud was brought to the USA by demonrats who wanted to see them get ahead in life by squeezing the money away from those who really needed that unemployment cash.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/23/2022 6:27:46 AM (No. 1080106)
This was intentional.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
The Remnants 2/23/2022 6:50:57 AM (No. 1080120)
Billions..........................................I agree wholeheartedly with O.P.
Fall of Rome: caused by corruption and foreign invaders.
And I do know if those in charge are stupid or not, but they are evil. I wonder if they have any grandchildren.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
3XALADY 2/23/2022 7:01:52 AM (No. 1080131)
I also have read of prisoners receiving million$$$.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/23/2022 7:42:13 AM (No. 1080168)
Wow, I never saw that coming.
I wonder how much the Clintons, 0bama, Hunter and The Big Guy stole.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mobyclik 2/23/2022 7:45:15 AM (No. 1080170)
Wonder how much the Hag glommed onto? Too much money for that greedy pos to pass up. And did the Big Guy get his 10%?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/23/2022 7:45:42 AM (No. 1080172)
BTW, I was self employed at the time, covid wiped out my business and I never received a penny from the feds.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jinx 2/23/2022 7:52:01 AM (No. 1080177)
Of course they stole it. When you give away money, the crooks are going to find a way to get it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 2/23/2022 8:03:00 AM (No. 1080191)
Thanks Brandon.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/23/2022 8:05:11 AM (No. 1080194)
The criminal operations of FOUR significant political families probably made out like the bandits they are. I only got a little IRS letter telling me what I should have received. Yeah right. Sure. I believed every word of that letter. /s
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
sterling431 2/23/2022 8:48:13 AM (No. 1080240)
I wonder if some of this fraud is committed by certain insiders within the Government who may know the vulnerabilities of the e-system used to disburse the funds and can do it leaving no footprints. I put nothing past our corrupt government.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/23/2022 9:18:00 AM (No. 1080260)
#8, the food stamp program is configured the same way, by design. The benefits are disbursed by "the federal government," but any fraud investigations are done by the individual states at their own cost. And so, by design, there is very little interest in pursuing food stamp fraud. Funny how that works.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
caddyjak 2/23/2022 10:03:52 AM (No. 1080314)
The DemonRat Fraud has gone gone far. Only Donald Trump can save the country.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/23/2022 10:25:49 AM (No. 1080339)
The emergency law was necessary, but not thought out by the government/.
Our ballerina daughter, who lives and works in Canada and performs internationally, was eligible to receive the Kung Flu subsidy/unemployment benefit, even though Canada was giving her 2000 dollars Canadian, each month.
And our law was written specifically to accommodate Americans working out of country. but she thought it would not be ethical to collect from two countries, and declined the money from the U.S.
(I think we might have done something right, in rearing her.)
On the other hand, Nigerian operatives scooped an estimated 50 million dollars in the first two weeks of Kung Flu emergency in the State of Washington unemployment funds. They apparently had been sitting on stacks of social security numbers and names, and acted quickly.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/23/2022 10:35:51 AM (No. 1080367)
WE will always have crooks among us...but this chi/com weaponized virus has done more damage than WE know...the computer has been our undoing...it's made people lazy ...so how do WE fight back...shop locally...use U S cash for payment...unmask yourselves...stay tuned to Newsman and Breitbart for the real news...question every dictate coming from congress and pray President Trump runs again in 2024...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/23/2022 11:01:26 AM (No. 1080407)
And in other news, Budweiser had spillage at its breweries...
It was all "spread it around" money anyways.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Krause 2/23/2022 1:03:23 PM (No. 1080531)
That's what happens when you have politicians in charge of the money. Especially democrat ones.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/23/2022 2:54:52 PM (No. 1080621)
FTA: "Officials from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Secret Service say improper accountability measures at the federal and state levels aided the fraud throughout the coronavirus pandemic."
So it was discovered that state and federal agencies used "improper accountability measures" that "aided the fraud."
Where did those "improper accountability measures" come from, and how did they end up in multiple government agencies...and remain there to facilitate the fleecing? And what is being done to hold the state and federal employees accountable for applying unapproved and improper "accountability measures" that ended up redistributing another 80 billion US dollars to foreign and domestic criminals?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MorningStar 2/23/2022 2:58:35 PM (No. 1080625)
Sorry #2, but in researching online discovered that Alexander Vindman and his Jewish family were all born in the Soviet Union. However, later on, due to increasing anti-Semitic persecution, they left when Alexander was only 4 and resettled in the US. He and his two brothers joined ROTC, and enrolled in SUNY Binghampton, where they enjoyed the discipline of military training. Alexander excelled in learning, becoming the highest-ranking expert on Ukraine. After all those accomplishments, he should've never been talked into testifying falsely, under oath, and in full uniform, against the sitting Commander-in-Chief, at that time, President Donald J. Trump!! I believe, Cong. "Shifty-Shift" supplied the persuasion!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/23/2022 4:36:54 PM (No. 1080683)
Yes Billions stolen from the Covid, but how much do you think will be stolen from this Trillion dollars infrastructure bill of Biden 's and multiply that by the Build back Better.
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The federal government's goal is to spend us into complete insolvency, destroying our personal wealth along the way in the name of equity and fairness. Allowing international fraudsters to steal the money is an excellent tactic, as the government will spend another $80 billion in order to recoup a tiny fraction of the total, if only on paper. They only pretend to be stupid.