A look at some of the fraud in Dems' "Covid relief act"--and a hint of what's coming with their new $700-billion law

Now that the Democrats have agreed to pass a law "appropriating" $700 BILLION to supposedly reduce Global Warming, it's worth looking at what happened to a $600 BILLION program pushed thru by the Dems as "Covid relief."

The moment congress or the administration proposes a $600-BILLION giveaway program, every scam-artist in the world starts figuring out ways to illegally grab some of that easy cash.  Of course every government giveaway is a target for fraud, but the Democrats' "CARES" act, the "paycheck protection program" and the extension of fat unemployment- insurance benefits were an especially lucrative target.  And now government investigators report that they've identified nearly $100 billion in fraud tied to COVID relief programs.

Now, you might think that the gruberment agencies in charge of handing out huge amounts of cash for these programs would do at least a TINY bit of checking to identify applicants who were OBVIOUS fraudsters, eh?

Hahahahaha!  No.  Those agencies didn't do the tiniest bit of checking to catch the most obvious fraud.  And of course that's due to crappy managers: Employees would only check for fraud if their supervisors told 'em to, eh?  And the supervisors...well, the less said about them the better.

So here are some of the most egregious examples of fraud in the Dems' "Covid relief" law:

Florida resident Kenbrell Thompkins stole the identities of several Florida residents and applied for COVID unemployment benefits for each.  With no one checking, he received $300,000 in cash benefits (via EBT cards).  The AP reported that he withdrew about $230,000 in cash at various ATMs.


After Democrat governors ordered small businesses to be closed (while oddly, big-box chain stores were allowed to stay open), Dems created the "Paycheck Protection Program," which allowed employers of businesses which had been ordered to close by Dem governors to borrow money--guaranteed by the government--to keep paying employees.  The cherry was that the federal government would "forgive" the loans if certain conditions were met.  So...free money!
 
A man named Miles applied for a loan of $1,904,593, claiming he owned a company with 50 employees and a monthly payroll of $768,838.  But in reality there was no such company.  He'd never paid any withholding tax (required if you have employees!), hadn't filed a single tax return for his supposed company, and the address he listed was a home in a residential neighborhood.  The most casual checker would have tagged this guy as a total fraud.  But for some reason this was beyond the capability of the gruberment bureaucrats.

Since the government agency didn't do even the most basic checking, Miles got the loan, and promptly withdrew hundreds of thousands in cash, spent $250,000 on a new Bentley and another $100,000 on a new Cadillac.

In New York City 18-year-old Angel Cabrera and five of his friends managed to steal $2 MILLION in PPP funds.  The gang stole personal information from people in COVID-assistance programs, then used that data to apply for PPP funds that went into their own accounts.  The gang members ended up with 100 debit cards in the names of other people, and used the cards to withdraw cash from ATMs.

The gang used the same addresses and cellphone numbers on several of the loan applications, proving that the federal system lacked any sort of method of checking to identify matching addresses or phone numbers on applications from supposedly different people.  Again, exactly the level of incompetence we've come to expect from the federal government and all its agents.

Bernard Lopez, of Sayreville, NJ, took PPP funds for a non-existent business.  He claimed his phantom company employed 25 and had a monthly payroll of roughly $192,000.  He received a loan of $481,500 which he spent on himself.

Vinath Oudomsine, of Dublin, Ga., got an "Economic Injury Disaster Loan" by claiming he had a company with ten employees.  Just a month later the Small Business Administration gave him $85,000.
 Allison Marie Baver applied for eight PPP loans, claiming to have between 100 and 430 employees and a monthly payroll of $4.7 million.  But in fact she had no employees at all.  Zero.  But because no federal gruberment employee did even the most basic checks, she ended up fraudulently obtaining a staggering $10 million in taxpayer funds.

Wanna know why this country is totally f'd, probably beyond hope of recovery?  Of course there are lots of reasons, but the above examples show that one reason is that the stupidity of managers of government agencies responsible for giving away billions.  The entire government is like this, at every level.

And now the Democrats are passing another $700 BILLION bill funding another thousand corrupt, kickback-riddled "programs" supposedly intended to reduce Global Warming.  So get ready for another $200 Billion to vanish into the pockets of fraudsters and politicians.