Category: covid fraud

Auditors Are Finding Millions in Mishandled COVID-Era Education Funds

Millions of dollars in pandemic-era relief spending that went to K-12 public education and universities was misspent, according to federal and state audits. As COVID-19 spread around the world in 2020, federal, state, and local officials encouraged or ordered policies that led to the closures of businesses and schools around the United States. Between 2020…


Biden Asking for $1.6 Billion and More Time to Prosecute Pandemic Fraud, Recover Funds

The Biden administration is seeking $1.6 billion in funding to help prosecutors track down and recover government funds that were fraudulently distributed under COVID-19 pandemic relief programs. On a call with reporters on Thursday, White House American Rescue Plan coordinator Gene Sperling laid out a new plan by the Biden administration to prosecute pandemic fraud….


LIVE 5 PM ET: NTD Business (Jan. 30): Fate of Biden Student Debt Plan To Be Decided; Record Rate of Sick Work Absences in 2022

One lawmaker is calling for a probe into how federal workers might have abused jobless benefits during the pandemic. She says that money was supposed to go to those who lost their jobs, not government fraudsters. Pfizer responds to the Project Veritas video. The company denies what Jordan Walker said in the video, but it does not…


NTD Business (Jan. 30): Fate of Biden Student Debt Plan to Be Decided; Record Rate of Sick Work Absences in 2022

One lawmaker is calling for a probe into how federal workers might have abused jobless benefits during the pandemic. She says that money was supposed to go to those who lost their jobs, not government fraudsters. Pfizer responds to the Project Veritas video. The company denies what Jordan Walker said in the video, but it does not…


UK Minister Quits Government Over ‘Schoolboy’ Handling of Covid Fraud

A British minister quit the Government at the despatch box and marched out the chamber over what he called the “schoolboy” handling of fraudulent Covid business loans. Lord Agnew of Oulton’s resignation from his Cabinet Office and Treasury posts was described as “one of the most dramatic moments ever seen” in the House of Lords….