[ April 19, 2024 ]
Can’t make this up. Every cabinet pick is worse than the next. And more unqualified than the next. It’s horrendous. Pray for America. No decent, honest American has a shot in this cesspool.
Biden pick for unemployment program lost $600M to Nigerian scammers
By Washington Examiner, February 4, 2021
President Biden faces growing questions about the appointment of a Democratic donor to oversee billions of dollars in unemployment benefits despite her role at a state agency that lost hundreds of millions in coronavirus relief funds to Nigerian scammers.
Story continues below advertisementSuzi LeVine departed Washington state’s Employment Security Department last month, leaving behind a trail of audits and questions about how $600 million of unemployment funds could be siphoned off by cybercriminals.
This week, she took up a post as acting assistant secretary at the Employment and Training Administration within the Labor Department. The position puts her at the forefront of Biden’s coronavirus recovery plan and provoked an immediate wave of criticism.
“Washington residents who have had seen massive error after massive error from LeVine’s Employment Security Department are dumbfounded that she would be getting a promotion,” said Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington. “This isn’t a ceremonial title or a cushy spot for donors, it’s a crisis management role and one she’s already failed miserably.”
LeVine and her husband are prolific Biden donors and served until January as deputy finance chairs for the Democratic National Committee, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The scammers caused a major scandal in Washington state, where the huge levels of fraud prompted delays in legitimate claimants of unemployment benefit at a time when hundreds of thousands of people were struggling with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The first of five audits, completed in December, blamed LeVine’s department for failing to fix a software vulnerability that contributed to the fraud.
“ESD did not have effective internal controls in place to ensure unemployment benefit payments were made only to eligible claimants,” it concluded.
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The scammers included a Nigerian ring, nicknamed “Scattered Canary” by the cybersecurity firm Agari, which first identified it. They used stolen personal information such as home addresses and social security numbers to file claims, adapting a technique already used extensively in tax fraud.
Last year, the ESD in Washington told the Seattle Times the number of fraudulent claims jumped 27-fold between March and April as fraudsters tried to cash in on extra coronavirus payments and trillions of dollars of emergency cash.
It prompted a Secret Service warning to states to be on the lookout for scammers. And in Washington state, the crisis triggered delays in processing legitimate claims for tens of thousands of workers.
Things got so bad that the National Guard was deployed to help process the backlog.
At the time, LeVine said the ESD had made changes that prevented hundreds of millions of additional dollars from going to criminals.
“We do have definitive proof that the countermeasures we have put in place are working,” she said.
Since then, the state says it has worked with federal law enforcement agencies and financial institutions to recover $357 million, leaving some $243 million missing.
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29 Comments
3 years ago
Well, the delusional peepads obiden does love his criminals and losers!!!!
3 years ago
They deliberately enlist the dumbest, most inept idiots for these jobs.
There is no possible rationale for this other than total destruction.
3 years ago
Gee, she only lost $600M for the state of Washington. Imagine what she can do to the Labor Dept. In any case, I’m sure ‘Ol Biden will order more paper money to be printed, thus solving the problem. So good to know we have such great and competent leaders in charge.
3 years ago
Trump told us THE WHOLE WORLD lives off of American Taxpayers…IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE SO FOR A LONG TIME YET…TURN OFF, TUNE IN, STOCK UP
3 years ago
Reply to
Clearly101
That’s why we can’t help our own with virus money. Everybody else needs it more than we do.
3 years ago
Wow, even third world countrys are more clever then Bidens goverment.
Well, he want to show that a criminal ni***r have the same value like a US-präsident.
He is the best politican for a satanic agenda.
Idiotic, without GOD given values and braindead – wow give him drugs so that he is able to speak for 5 min..
3 years ago
If you ever got the impression that our ruin is the goal of the Democrat Party, you were right. That seems to be too difficult for people to accept. If that wasn’t true, why are we in this mess?
3 years ago
imagine that a stupid dumbassacrat
3 years ago
Imagine what this twit will do for us!
3 years ago
“Washington residents who have had seen massive error after massive error from LeVine’s Employment Security Department are dumbfounded that she would be getting a promotion,” Why? She’s a democrat darling, failing up is always an option if you donate enough to the big guy.
3 years ago
Biden is following in the footsteps of loser B.O., a successful failure. An impressive record.
3 years ago
As soon as I read her name, I cringed, not another kapo judenrat? Please ????
“In 2006, she and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum co-founded The Kavana Cooperative, a post-denominational innovative approach to building a meaningful Jewish community.‘
“Post denominational” but meaningful, what garbage!
3 years ago
Reply to
Cassandra
her name if she is a single woman is Levine. her name if she has a husband is Levine. people who use that ridiculous LeVine spelling always turn out to be as fake as their name spelling. and avid supporters of Jew haters.
3 years ago
Reply to
Cassandra
her name if she is a single woman is Levine. her name if she has a husband is Levine. people who use that ridiculous LeVine spelling always turn out to be as fake as their name spelling. and avid supporters of Jew haters.
3 years ago
Hey, its only taxpayer money she gave away. Just chalk it up as foreign aid. Why consider her as incompetent with public funds? She fills a diversity position (female) so she is therefore qualified.
This is like a 20/20 or 60 Minutes piece about some sucker not having the wherewithal to see its a scam or put on the brakes and have a minute of second thought before giving away the bank account to a scammer.
3 years ago
The team is getting worse.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mal
Did anyone notice a similarity between Joe Biden and Jeff Dunham’s puppett: Walter?
3 years ago
The Biden Régime is NOT a government. It is a criminal enterprise heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist Party.
All to the enslavement of the American PEOPLE.
3 years ago
I remember receiving those Nigerian 419 letters. Those letters were a variation on the old Spanish Prisoner scam.
3 years ago
How Nigerian scammers get rich.
3 years ago
Her dept broke the law by denying, delaying, and ignoring FOIA requests for months beyond the deadline… especially for emails between her and gov Inslee who actually praised her work. What’s more is that her agency even refused to be investigated by the state auditor’s office headed up by a democrat Pat McCarthy. Fortunately I don’t live near Seattle or the capitol of WA in Olympia…but close enough to smell the stench. Ms Suzi interestingly enough has been a long time bundler of donations to such politicians as biden, buttegieg, and obama.
Could some of the dark money that poured into the biden campaign have come from taxpayers in WA state?
One more fact. The cyber security level for the WA State Employment Security Office was mysteriously lowered for a month after the buffoon guv inslee shut down the economy. Answers are not forthcoming in this single party state because party is always “uber alles” and arrogantly stomps out reasoned resistance with the full resources and power of the state. Our attorney Bob Ferguson general for example sued the Trump admin more than 40 times; sued a small business owner for not wanting to participate in a gay wedding for religious reasons, yet allowed thousands of instances of the cancel culture to ruin people’s lives for their conservative (republican) support.
3 years ago
Well folks, there’s ya reparations paid in full.
3 years ago
Where is the indictment? The arrest?
3 years ago
I always wondered who the stupid people were that fell for the Nigerian Prince scam. There had to be a lot or they would have given up the scam years ago. A $600 million score? Stupidity knows no bounds!
3 years ago
At the rate Biden is going I wouldn’t be surprised if our country completely collapses in the next 4 years. The one thing I know is that Jesus is in control in the end.
3 years ago
Were those scammers really Nigerians, or her friends?
3 years ago
Clearly you have to be one of three things to be one of Biden’s banana republic servants A crook, An enemy, a prior failure, or a very clear combination of at least two of those!
