Downsizing the federal bureaucracy is an urgent priority, and an easy first step is in sight thanks to the larcenous behavior of federal bureaucrats who have nominated themselves for swift termination. Jordan Boyd reports at The Federalist:
… thousands of federal employees double-dipped from taxpayer-funded pandemic unemployment funds while mostly working from home.
Despite staying on taxpayers’ payroll during the height of the pandemic panic, greedy bureaucrats in the Internal Revenue Service, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Postal Service, Amtrak, and the Secret Service defrauded taxpayers out of millions more dollars under the guise of Covid unemployment fund and wage assistance programs.
The bureaucrats committed fraud to get the extra money. It was disturbingly easy:
Thanks to rushed and lax standards, whereby “claimants only needed to self-certify they met eligibility requirements when they filed for [pandemic unemployment assistance] benefits,” more than $8.8 million in taxpayer funds were funneled to 638 DHS employees unlawfully. FEMA’s state workforce agencies also paid out $1.2 million in “lost wages assistance” to 935 DHS workers who were “fully employed.” At least 366 of those ineligible DHS officials were actually paid overtime during the period they were approved, receiving up to hundreds of dollars per week on top of normal unemployment benefits.
Fraud !!! They should be punished by death. How can someone steal from the truly needly and profit from this behavior while feeling no guilt or remorse. That there is a quality individual I tell you. The gallow pole is too good for this crime. This crime requires the guillotine with the convicted facing up, to see that sharp heavy blade coming down to remove their head to the waiting basket.
Alot of Unemployed in Maryland Never got their Money !!!! Fighting the state to get Anything the whole time !!
This article conveniently leaves out this primarily happened in conservative states. There’s another scandal in Alabama where state employees signed themselves up for unemployment benefits while still working for the state, essentially giving themselves two paychecks a week.
The Worse of the Worse Criminals are in CONGRESS !!!!! Only BAD people voted them in !!! Must be Alot !!!