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The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says (apnews.com)

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More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What?? You mean to tell me that the tax-payer money that was given away to companies with practically no oversight, that they pinky swore they would use to keep people employed during the pandemic instead ended up in their pockets because they laid off everybody anyway?!

Well I could never have guessed that one.