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Los Angeles Times
OCT. 25, 2021
SACRAMENTO...
Ø California has given away at least $20 billion to criminals in the form of fraudulent unemployment benefits. (This is Fella...That’s Billion with a “B”. That’s 20 Thousand Million Dollars.)
Ø This accounts for more than 11% of all benefits paid since the start of the pandemic. (This is Fella...That’s stolen from the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic to only October 25, 2021.)
Ø State officials blamed nearly all of that fraud on a hastily approved expansion of unemployment benefits by Congress that let people who were self-employed get weekly checks from the government with few safeguards to stop people who were not eligible to receive them. (This is Fella...Whose fault is it State or Federal? We don’t know. They like it that way.)
Ø The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in widespread fraud at unemployment agencies across the country, with at least $87 billion in fraudulent payments approved by states, according to a June 2021 report (This is Fella...You ain’t gonna read this report because it contains 12,557 words, is 50 pages long and contains 69 footnotes.) from the inspector general’s office at the U.S. Department of Labor. (This is Fella...Whose fault is it State or Federal? We don’t know. They like it that way.)
Ø In Arizona alone, state officials said scammers pocketed nearly 30% of all its unemployment benefit payments.
😀You Are Going To Think I Made The Next 3 Bullets Up😀
Ø In California, the fraud was so widespread that state officials approved at least $810 million in benefits in the names of people who were in prison, including dozens of infamous killers on death row.
Ø State
officials even sent $21,000 in benefits to an address in Roseville under
the name and Social Security number of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Ø $2 million in total fraudulent payments were sent to the Roseville address.
Some lawmakers said they were worried people were losing
faith in their government ... (This is
Fella...No Chit, Sherlock!)
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: A State official said...All this Money Stealing is bad but it could be worse. If the thieves started stealing our excuses for why we can’t stop and/or don’t even know about the Thievery we would really be in trouble ... Yea, I made this Lagniappe up...Or did I?
