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More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I don't think they're even counting those guys - "rich people with legitimate businesses who didn't actually need the money" - as fraud; this mostly seems to be a lot of fake / foreign businesses.