As Covid-19 benefits fraud hits astronomical heights, in part due to crooked government employees, a former prosecutor warns there’s never been a program “that could be so easily fleeced around the globe.”
Some of the fraudsters who’ve made off with an estimated $80 billion stolen from the U.S. government’s $870 billion Covid-19 unemployment support program have had crucial help — from crooked government workers.has learned that federal investigators are on the trail of an insider at a California agency who allegedly helped inmates at a state prison siphon $250,000 in taxpayer funds.
Fraudsters across the world have taken advantage of government insiders and lax security protections of the Covid-19 benefits program.Her alleged participation in the scheme came to light when a phone was seized from a Centinela inmate in September 2020, according to the search warrant. Investigators for the U.S.
Other government insiders have helped fraudsters profit from the Covid unemployment-assistance program. In Detroit, Brandi Hawkins, a 40-year-old contract employee for the State of Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, was Such cases highlight how fraudsters are able to take advantage of current and former government employees, and how they’re making serious profits thanks to ineffective anti-fraud systems that are supposed to protect America’s Covid support program.
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