News Clips | October 21, 2023
During a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Oct. 19, founder and CEO of Audient Group Linda Miller, the former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in the Department of Justice, disclosed that according to some estimates, half of U.S. pandemic unemployment assistance fraud went to adversarial nations. Her comments came in response to a question from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) concerning a recent federal prosecution of a group of Chinese state-linked hackers who stole an estimated $20 million in relief funds.
(Fella did the underlining.)
If you are like me you did not read the above News Clip close enough. The amount of stolen money the article is telling us about is not only $20 Million (betcha did not know it was possible to use the word “only” with $20 Million). The article brings to light the fact that 50% of U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud that was stolen was stolen by Chinese State-Linked Hackers. The total U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Money Stolen was $40 Million!
Does this mean that Members of our 9% Approval Rated
Congress sit around their formerly smoke-filled rooms and says the likes of
this to each other, “OK, we need umptiump
billions of dollars for this worthy cause. Since we know that umptiump billions
of dollars are going to be stolen we need to increase the tax increase needed
for this worthy cause by umptiump billions of dollars so we will have enough
un-stolen billions left.”
Does it ever cross their small minds that maybe they ought to stop the stealing?
Is this country completely out of control or what?
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Here comes the Foolishness...Or is it?
We have perfectly good certified criminals in the Good Ole USofA.
If I were a perfectly good certified criminal in the Good Ole USofA I would be offended.
I can just hear Vito complaining to the boys at barber shop...
Ø Why is this country allowing foreign criminals to steal Pandemic Unemployment Funds?
Ø Just because we are Criminals does not mean are not Patriotic.
Ø If this country is going to be stupid enough to allow $20 Million to be stolen like this, it ought to send us a text message and tell us that they are this stupid and offer us the opportunity to steal it rather than them allowing this perfectly good money go to these low life foreign bad guys who are not patriotic criminals like us.
Ø That just ain’t right!
I agree with Vito. Our Rulers are indeed stupid.
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The Blogging is over. This is Fella being absolutely serious. What this means is Foreign and/or Domestic Criminals can steal $20 to $40 Million just by clicking on a computer’s keys without having to go out and buying or stealing a gun. Vito is right. That just ain’t right.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
2 comments:
I couldn’t agree more with Smart Fella’s point. The fact that foreign hackers managed to swipe a chunk of U.S. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funds, ranging from $20 to $40 million, without even leaving their keyboards is mind-boggling. It’s like they ordered money with a side of fries online.
Smart Fella’s irritation is spot-on. Our leaders should be smarter than this. Cybersecurity needs a major upgrade, and we can’t let perfectly good money slip through our fingers into the wrong hands.
And you’re right, our congressional leaders seem to have lost sight of the value of a taxpayer dollar. It’s as if they’re saying, “Why worry about stopping the theft when we can just keep increasing taxes to cover the losses?”
In a nutshell, this situation is a wake-up call. We need to fortify our defenses and remind our leaders of the importance of safeguarding taxpayer money. Otherwise, we might as well put a “Hackers Welcome” sign on our digital vaults and an “Out of Touch” sign on Capitol Hill.
Out of control is a mild response!
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