By Lawrence Richard | 10 June 2021
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Unemployment benefits handed out by the federal government over this past year may have been largely stolen by criminals.
As much as half of the coronavirus-related stimulus aid intended for people in the United States never reached them, according to some new estimates. Instead, it was pocketed by crime syndicates who mostly took the money and fled the country.
Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, a verification service that often prevents this type of fraud, told Axios that more than $400 billion of U.S. aid was lost to fraudulent claims.
Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a company that provides predictive insights and fraud prevention, said most of those stolen funds, at least 70%, were then sent to criminal networks in other countries, including China, Nigeria, and Russia.
Over the past year, the Trump and Biden administrations have signed off on aid packages to bolster depleting state unemployment insurance. The aid was supposed to help people withstand the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns but was quickly recognized as a lucrative exploit for criminals. […]
Yeah, and in California, they’ve been intentionally Disqualifying white male conservatives since the last week of December 2020 – cut-off since then. Hence, Gavenor Nuisance’s recent public statement to counter the Recall Effort against him – that California now has a 13-Billion Dollar Surplus. This, just after 2020, when the state was nearly bankrupt. Hmmmmmmmm, where’d all that money come from?