{"id":1651679,"date":"2022-09-21T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651679"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:50:54","slug":"were-going-to-be-investigating-pandemic-fraud-for-the-next-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-going-to-be-investigating-pandemic-fraud-for-the-next-century\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Going To Be Investigating Pandemic Fraud For The Next Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-going-to-be-investigating-pandemic-fraud-for-the-next-century%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Have you ever looked at the scandals involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/american-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Ulysses S. Grant\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0administration and wondered how such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/corruption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption<\/a> occurred?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s time to check your arrogance at the door because future generations are going to view the past two and a half years with the same disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>The United States just experienced billions of dollars in pandemic-related fraud. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2022\/08\/27\/smr-pandemic-fraud-epidemic.cnn\">According<\/a> to one inspector general, it will take 100 years to fully investigate.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/minnesota-scheme-stole-250-million-feeding-our-future-meals-needy-children-federal-prosecutors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> 47 individuals in a \u201cmassive scheme\u201d to fraudulently take $250 million in U.S. taxpayers\u2019 money that was meant to feed low-income children during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, employees at the non-profit Feeding our Future established shell companies during the COVID pandemic that claimed to be giving away meals to thousands of kids in Minnesota. Because certain rules were waived as part of the public-private response to the virus, participating parties were then able to receive reimbursement for those \u201cmeals\u201d through the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s food nutrition programs.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by CBS News, an FBI affidavit unsealed earlier this year claimed that\u00a0 \u201cFeeding Our Future received $307,000 in reimbursements from the USDA in 2018, $3.45 million in 2019 and $42.7 million in 2020. The amount of reimbursements jumped to $197.9 million in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except authorities say that food was never given to needy kids. The accused individuals had allegedly submitted fake receipts and, in turn, pocketed the money given to them by the government. Rather than help those in need, the perpetrators bought a litany of luxury items.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has called it \u201cthe largest pandemic fraud in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It might very well be the most significant case as of now, but it is just a sliver of the overall swindling that took place under both the Trump and Biden administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has already \u201ctaken enforcement action to more than $8 billion in suspected pandemic fraud, including bringing charges in more than 1,000 criminal cases involving losses in excess of $1.1 billion,\u201d according to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>In total, authorities believe that there were likely hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud from all\u00a0 COVID aid programs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-07-12\/how-much-covid-aid-was-stolen-no-one-really-knows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hannibal Ware, Inspector General of the Small Business Administration, told CNN in late August this agency alone has \u201cover 280,000 hotline complaints\u201d about fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 40,000 of those are actually actionable,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhich means we have 100 years\u2019 worth of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, knowing how the government works \u2014 over budget and over time \u2014\u00a0 the final tally of how much U.S. taxpayers were fleeced during this period will likely never be revealed. If it is, Americans probably won\u2019t know how much money was stolen until well past 2122.<\/p>\n<p>By then, all the offenders will be long dead. In fact, empirical evidence suggests there will be government corruption during the government\u2019s investigation of pandemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever looked at the scandals involved in President Ulysses S. Grant\u2019s\u00a0administration and wondered how such corruption occurred? Well, it\u2019s time to check your arrogance at the door because future generations are going to view the past two and a half years with the same disbelief. 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