Criminal COVID Fraudsters Just Got Some VERY Bad News… Time Is NOT On Your Side
Criminals hoping to run out the clock on COVID fraud will need to rethink their plan
If you’re tired of criminal grifters scamming the government and getting away with it… we’ve finally got a good news story for you.
At least ONE category of criminal grifters will NOT be getting away with it… or at least, now that the DOJ is prioritizing prosecutions of the kind of scams that make political insiders fat and happy, they can’t count on indifferent politicians looking the other way while the clock winds down on the window of opportunity to prosecute.
For the many, many people with their hands in the cookie jar during COVID, that ‘window of opportunity’ just got a LOT bigger.
Remember how testy Dems got when anyone suggested clawing back the unspent COVID money even AFTER the pandemic was declared ‘over’? The states got almost 200 Billion from the Biden/Pelosi/Schumer administration. And there was a LOT of unspent money that hadn’t even been set aside for any particular use:
As of September 30, 2023, the latter group “reported obligating 73 percent ($142.4billion)” of their total and “spending 53 percent ($103.7 billion).”
In other words, state and D.C. governments are sitting on $92 billion in unspent COVID-19 relief money, more than $53 billion of which has not even been earmarked for anything. — Yahoo Finance
Dems were eventually shamed into taking back $30B. But that still leaves a lot of money unaccounted for…
We know where some of it went…
Even if the highest estimates are inflated, the total fraud in all Covid relief funds amounts to a mind-boggling sum of taxpayer money that could rival the $579 billion in federal funds included in President Joe Biden’s massive 10-year infrastructure spending plan, according to prosecutors, government watchdogs and private experts who are trying to plug the leaks.
“Nothing like this has ever happened before,” said Matthew Schneider, a former U.S. attorney from Michigan who is now with Honigman LLP. “It is the biggest fraud in a generation.” — NBC, March 2022
If early indicators in DOGE are what they seem, there is plenty of reason to take a closer look into popup NGOs that grew like mushrooms during the pandemic… and see how many really are what they claimed to be.
As of yesterday, time is finally working AGAINST the pandemic unemployment fraudsters. Running out the clock will no longer be an option.
PASSED!
The House just passed the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act which will empower law enforcement to continue prosecuting fraudsters for robbing American taxpayers of $135 billion and claw that money back. pic.twitter.com/l6Kzt6DnA8
— Ways and Means Committee (@WaysandMeansGOP) March 11, 2025