Congress is SHOCKED By the COVID Fraud It Created

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“The real fraud is the illusion that members of Congress give a damn about plundering American taxpayers.”

Congress is shocked, shocked by the COVID fraud it created

By: NY Post, December 2, 2022:

Like Captain Renault in the gambling casino in “Casablanca,” congressmen are “shocked, shocked” by all the fraud spawned by the trillions of dollars in COVID handouts they approved.

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The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued a report Thursday blaming fintech firms for the pilfering of Paycheck Protection Program loans that began in 2020. But the real fraud is the illusion that members of Congress give a damn about plundering American taxpayers.

PPP was enacted in March 2020 and eventually provided $800 billion in loans to more than 11 million businesses. Congress designed the program to carpet-bomb the nation with federal tax dollars.

The Small Business Administration, which administered the plan, effectively told people, “Apply and sign and tell us that you’re really entitled to the money,” said Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. He testified PPP was an invitation to fraudsters because there weren’t “even minimal checks to make sure that the money was getting to the right people at the right time.”

How $600 billion was stolen from the American people

Government investigators estimate up to $100 billion in PPP loans was fraudulent. The feds gave 342 people who said their name was “N/A” PPP loans. Dozens of New York City and New York state employees were arrested this week for their role in a multimillion-dollar PPP fraud scheme.

After 15 Illinois jailbirds used PPP loans to pay their bail, cynics scoffed that the program should be named the Prisoner Paycheck Program. In Florida, a PPP loan was used to bankroll a murder-for-hire plot that left a Transportation Security Administration agent dead.

Happily, a scapegoat has been found. According to the new congressional report, the problem was that the financial-technology companies (fintechs) that handled PPP-claims applications failed to show due diligence. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the select subcommittee’s chairman, declared that “many fintechs … refused to take adequate steps to detect and prevent fraud despite their clear responsibility to safeguard taxpayer funds.”

PPPs were a typical legislative monstrosity where the profits were privatized while taxpayers suffered the losses. Some fintechs shamelessly exploited a reckless program and received hefty fees based on the loans they approved.

  • Kabbage, Inc.’s policy chief scoffed in a September 2020 email: “At the end of the day, it’s the SBA’s s—ty rules that created fraud, not” us.
  • “Womply’s CEO — who was convicted of insider trading in 2014 and has been permanently barred from participating in the securities industry — led Womply’s fraud prevention efforts and instructed his company to not cooperate with federal PPP fraud investigators,” the report charged.

Rep. Clyburn declared, “We must learn from this inexcusable misconduct to erect guardrails that will help ensure that federal programs” are better administered in the future. But it was Congress that inexcusably failed to include any PPP guardrails when it catapulted hundreds of billions at the program.

Almost all the PPP loans have been “forgiven” because employers claimed to have kept employees on their payroll — often despite indicators of fraud that the feds are too busy to pursue.

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JonJoD
JonJo
1 year ago

All over my short street anyone can see where that money went: new cars, substantial property improvements, a new house, a new outbuilding, and 3 home purchases.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Besides the $9,000 that was given to the families to bury the “covid” victim. The hospitals were given $50,000 for each death that they labeled as “covid” “Covid” is here to stay forever. So far more people have died from the flu than “covid”.

Don39D
Don39
1 year ago

Congress, all of them, are just a pack of fools, with rare exception.

MrSnerdly
MrSnerdly
1 year ago
Reply to  Don39

I somewhat agree. The repukelicans are a pack of fools with the exception of perhaps 3 or 4 dozen in both the House and Senate. The rest are either RINOs or spineless, ineffective sissyboys. ALL of the democoms are pure evil, sent from the bowels of hell to destroy all that is good.

Michael McCallion Sr
Michael McCallion Sr
1 year ago

Hear ! Hear ! – This is the Clarion Call about the Wealthy** of the World put into place on the “Commanding Heights” as bought by ignorant, self-serving gatherers at Devos showing their ill-gotten material gains. _ * [ Musk is recognizing those who gained wealth, solely through serendiptious access to funding from Communist China’s Tax payments.__MikeSr

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Do not trust musk.

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