{"id":239640,"date":"2021-03-17T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239640"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:15:58","slug":"deputy-labor-secy-nominee-takes-heat-for-unemployment-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deputy-labor-secy-nominee-takes-heat-for-unemployment-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Labor Secy nominee takes heat for unemployment fraud"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdeputy-labor-secy-nominee-takes-heat-for-unemployment-fraud%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=239640&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--><div id=\"attachment_2387793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2387793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Su speaks during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:40 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s Deputy Secretary of Labor nominee was grilled on her mishandling of a massive unemployment insurance scheme while serving as California\u2019s labor secretary. During Julie Su\u2019s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) laid into her over a scandal in which California was defrauded out of billions of dollars in unemployment claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia\u2019s suffered some of the largest fraud in our nation\u2019s history during the pandemic,\u201d Burr stated. \u201cOver $11 billion and perhaps as high as $30 billion in fraud occurred in California\u2019s unemployment system. Even death row inmates received unemployment checks. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a reasonable debate to be had about the death penalty, but I can\u2019t imagine one that involves paying people on death row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burr added Su failed to successfully implement measures to stop over $11 billion worth of insurance fraud. In 2020, Su even admitted as much, saying proper security was not put in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no sugar-coating the reality: California did not have sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud,\u201d Su said. \u201cOf the $114 billion in unemployment paid by California since March, approximately 10% has been confirmed as fraudulent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burr also pointed to Su\u2019s guidance as California\u2019s labor secretary, in which she nixed multiple safeguards meant to protect the state from fraud in order to expedite claims. He noted that decision led to even more fraud amid the already ballooning crisis in the state. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) chimed in on that criticism as well. She pointed out an independent audit found Su\u2019s policies exacerbated the fraud crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA California state audit found that your directives jeopardized the integrity of the system,\u201d Collins said. \u201cSo, do you disagree with the state auditor and with the federal requirements? Why did you take those actions? Why did you jeopardize the integrity of the system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Su is largely expected to be confirmed by the Democrat-majority Senate.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-says-cuomo-may-have-to-resign-urges-public-to-believe-all-women-alleging-sexual-assault\/\">Biden Says Cuomo May Have To Resign, Urges Public To \u2018Believe All Women\u2019 Alleging Sexual Assault\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Su speaks during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275712,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}