Fraud

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, speaks to reporters on his way to a closed-door GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 10, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

U.S. House panel probes extent of fraud in federal COVID-19 relief programs
BY: - February 1, 2023

WASHINGTON — From 2020 to 2022, a group of Minnesotans pretended to be serving meals to low-income children, all the while filing for reimbursement under a federal COVID-19 relief program aimed to buoy child nutrition as schools and childcare centers closed.  In all, the schemers defrauded the government of $250 million, the Minnesota Reformer reported. […]

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