Mercedes, Mansions, And Murder: How Fraudsters Spent Millions In COVID Relief Funds

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Mercedes, Mansions, And Murder: How Fraudsters Spent Millions In COVID Relief Funds

Ben Johnson

In his 2022 State of the Union address, President Biden said, “Tonight, I’m announcing that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.” Sorting through the mounds of waste and abuse in the government’s pandemic relief programs might make that official as sick as the Omicron variant.

With the economy setting new records for growth and prosperity, politicians forced businesses to close their doors in the name of fighting COVID-19. To compensate, the federal government allocated trillions of tax dollars to relieve laid-off workers — but instead of reaching them, some of those funds purchased sports cars, put down payments on luxurious homes, and even reportedly paid a hitman to kill a 24-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter.

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