Billions of dollars stolen from the corona relief fund in the US

The Associated Press (AP) reported that the US government has allocated a total of $4.2 trillion in Covid-19 aid. In the report, the incident was called “the largest fraud in US history”, and it was claimed that more than $280 billion of this amount was stolen and more than $123 billion wasted. . He specified that this corresponds to 10 percent of the total aid for Covid-19.

Researchers and experts, on the other hand, blamed the government for trying to distribute funds allocated for aid quickly at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, arguing that there were few restrictions on aid requests and insufficient supervision, arguing that this made the scammers job easier.

Authorities said scammers used the Social Security numbers of inmates and those killed in jails to get unemployment benefits, and they did so in many states across the country.

“THE ENDLESS FUND OF MONEY HAD ACCESS TO EVERYONE”

Dan Fruchter, Chief of the Fraud and White Collar Crime Division for the Attorney General for the Eastern District of Washington, said: “There was an infinite amount of money available to anyone here. People were deluded into thinking it was socially acceptable, if not legal.” he used the phrase.

“This is an unprecedented amount of fraud,” Mike Galdo, deputy director of the US Department of Justice’s Covid-19 Fraud Unit, said of the relief fund theft. saying.

The Washington government is said to have taken action so far, charging more than 2,230 people, including soldiers, priests, other officials and criminals, with fraud, and the investigation of thousands of them continues. (AA)