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“Couple Held As Relief Cheaters,” Border Cities Star. June 8, 1932. Page 16.
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TORONTO, June 8. - While J. J. McQuade and his wife Margaret were obtaining food and coal from relief officials here, McQuade had a bank account of $2,000 and a mortgage on a local house and was able to purchase a farm at Malton, it was alleged by police, who arrested the McQuades on their farm yesterday. They face charges of obtaining food by false pretences. These were the latest of a series of arrests on charges of defrauding local relief agencies.
#toronto#false pretences#obtaining goods by false pretences#relief fraud#unemployment fraud#malton ontario#farming in canada#defrauding the government#punishing the poor#welfare fraud#great depression in canada#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada
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a while back my mom discovered that the owner of the company was stealing basically all of the money that he was supposed to submit for things like 'taxes' and 'health insurance' and 'court-mandated payments' for the employees, listing them on the pay stubs but then pocketing the money to help keep the company afloat
she then made sure that everybody in the company knew, submitted her resignation effective immediately, and spent about the next week calling government offices to report every crime, regulatory violation, and breach of employment contract that she could think of. and now it looks like the series of investigations that she kicked off might be the thing that finally destroys this man's company.
sometimes I'm proud of her
#and if you want a succinct summary of the American labor situation#after she told her coworkers about all of this#including things like 'turns out we all lost our health insurance a month ago because he stopped paying for it'#nobody else quit. everybody else decided that it was worth putting up with very direct wage theft and tax fraud to avoid unemployment#even the people in very in-demand positions who could trivially find work elsewhere#also i used to work for the guy too because he owned a good chunk of the businesses around my home area when i was a teenager#i met him once and it was when he walked into the store unannounced and then grabbed some stuff and tried walking right out#and got all 'do you even KNOW who I am' pissy when I informed him that this isn't how stores work and you pay for things here#being rich rots your fucking brain i swear to god
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The Biden administration announced a series of measures Thursday to track down and punish fraudsters who scammed billions of taxpayer dollars that were supposed to provide relief to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden is pledging $1.6 billion to bolster law enforcement manpower and new programs that will be used to prosecute scammers, prevent fraud, and provide assistance to victims of identity theft.
“We want to not only capture them and get their funds, we want to send a signal to them that you can run, but you cannot hide,” said Gene Sperling, a Biden senior adviser who is overseeing the implementation of the COVID-relief plan.
THE LATEST
• The administration’s plans call for creating 10 Department of Justice “strike forces” that will include U.S. attorneys and other law enforcement officials to investigate COVID-relief fraud and help recover stolen tax dollars. The teams will target criminal syndicates and other major fraudsters. Three strike forces already are in place and have recovered millions of dollars in stolen relief funds, officials said.
• The administration also will propose increasing the statute of limitations to 10 years for fraud involving the pandemic Unemployment Insurance program, which has been hit especially hard by scammers.
• Some $300 million will be distributed to inspectors general at the Small Business Administration, the Department of Labor and the staff of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a government watchdog over pandemic spending. The money would be used to hire investigators and make sure they have the resources needed to pursue specialized cases of pandemic fraud.
• In his proposed budget to be released next week, Biden will offer a package of legislative reforms to prevent, detect and recover payments made improperly through the Unemployment Insurance program.
• Federal grants would be made to states to help modernize their information technology systems to enable them to respond more quickly to fraud, decrease erroneous payments and provide more efficient claims processing.
• New initiatives also would be put in place to identify victims of identity theft, including an early warning system to stop potentially fraudulent transactions before they occur and a one-stop shop to report identity crimes.
WHY IT MATTERS
The federal government distributed more than $5 trillion in pandemic relief under programs approved by Biden and former President Donald Trump. The money was distributed quickly, leading to an increase in fraud and other improper payments, such as those that shouldn’t have been made or were made in the wrong amount.
The Government Accountability Office reported last month that the extent of fraud in COVID-relief programs is not yet known but that the Unemployment Insurance program alone was believed to have made more than $60 billion in fraudulent payments.
From March 2020 to last January, at least 1,044 people pleaded guilty or were convicted of defrauding COVID relief programs, the GAO report said. Federal charges were pending against another 609 individuals or entities for attempting to defraud COVID-relief programs.
Also, the federal government gave $5.4 billion in COVID aid to small businesses with “questionable” Social Security numbers, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee reported in January. The watchdog identified nearly 70,000 questionable Social Security numbers used to obtain pandemic aid from two programs run by the Small Business Administration.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee has opened an investigation into fraud in COVID-relief programs. The committee held its first hearing on the subject last month.
Sperling, however, said the administration’s anti-fraud package isn’t a direct response to the GOP investigations. Most of the proposals were being prepared before last November’s election, he said.
#us politics#news#usa today#2023#president joe biden#biden administration#ppp loans#stimulus checks#pandemic response#covid relief#fraud#Gene Sperling#identity theft#Department of Justice#Unemployment Insurance#Small Business Administration#Department of Labor#Pandemic Response Accountability Committee#Government Accountability Office
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having a fucked up flint friday over here folks
#today on fucked up flint friday lets try to not think too much abt my weird relationship with food#and the fact that im struggling with unemployment at barely 22 years of age bc this country wont let me finish school ❤️#with a side dish of Why cant i love people back when they fall in love with me. more headlines at eight stay tuned#ah how could i forget feeling like a fraud and a burden and a coward as a trans masc!!! of course. anyway wheres weed when u need it right#rizcore
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Updates...
Once again, my computer is running updates. Wonder how long it will take today? At least I completed my certification for unemployment before I started them. I’m finally getting unemployment after nearly 2 months of trying to prove my identity to the State of Illinois.
Early in the Covid lockdown, I got a letter that I had applied for unemployment – needless to say, that was a fraudulent claim.…
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Stevenson, AL woman charged in COVID scheme gets 14 months and must repay $120,025
Stevenson, Alabama woman charged in COVID scheme gets 14 months and must repay $120,025...
A Stevenson, Alabama woman was sentenced to 14-months in prison on Wednesday after conviction from her involvement in a scheme to defraud COVID-19 unemployment programs in multiple states.
29-year-old Randa Faye Allison appeared before Judge Curtis L. Collier in Chattanooga on Wednesday for sentencing.
As part of the filed plea agreement with the court, the Department of Justice says Allison pled…
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#Alabama#arrest#COVID-19 relief fraud#Fraud#Jackson County News#jail#Marion County News#prison#Randa Faye Allison#Stevenson#Stevenson News#unemployment
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“CASE OF BEER MAY END IN DEPORTATION,” Montreal Star. November 10, 1932. Page 4.
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COBALT, Ont., Nov. 10 - (CP) -Because he celebrated getting his name on the relief list by buying a case of beer, Toivo Wainonen is in jail facing deportation to his native Finland. Wainonen appeared at the Town Hall and succeeded in being listed for town help, during the winter. After he obtained the beer, he ran foul of the police who found he had never taken out naturalisation papers.
#cobalt#timmins#buying beer#unemployment relief#finnish canadians#finnish immigration to canada#naturalized canadian#undesirable citizens#welfare fraud#deportation from canada#great depression in canada#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada
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Fraudsters steal $15,000 from man's Employment Development Department debit card, Bank of America says 'no error occurred'
Fraudsters steal $15,000 from man’s Employment Development Department debit card, Bank of America says ‘no error occurred’
COTATI, Calif. (KGO) — It was a big problem during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unemployed workers received their Employment Development Department benefits on Bank of America debit cards — but they were targets of fraudsters who drained millions of dollars from workers’ accounts.
Many could not get reimbursed.
This year, BofA was fined $225 million for automatically denying their claims.
The problem…
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#7 on your side#7oys#Bank of America#bofa debit card fraud denial#bofa denies edd claim#edd account hacked#edd disability fraud#edd fraud#employment development department#michael finney#unemployment hacked
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Insurance claims examiner headed to prison
Insurance claims examiner headed to prison
Rose pleaded guilty in April to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to his participation in a wide-ranging scam designed to fraudulently provide his co-conspirators with pandemic unemployment insurance benefits.
“Corrupt public servants compromise the ability of the government to function effectively and undermine confidence in all public programs,” Ison said. “This prosecution…
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every once in a while, i have an urge to sit down and write an entire essay about The Purge franchise, specifically through the frame of reactions from people who either have not watched the movies or watched them while pissing on the poor.
because oh my fucking god do those reactions send me into a violent tailspin of irrational anger.
"the purge doesn't make logistical sense"
okay so have you ever heard of fiction? the train in snowpiercer doesnt make logistical sense either. it doesnt have to because its a vehicle in which to tell a story.
"people wouldnt just commit violent crimes because its legal now."
no they wouldnt. do you know that the first movie takes place on the 6th purge? do you know that story about frogs and boiling water?
"no one would ever agree to this. politicians couldnt implement this."
yeah so the fourth movie - The First Purge - is actually a prequel that explains how and why it got implemented.
see as a result of a general economic crisis, a new political party called the NFFA (new founding fathers of america) came to power, and two years into their political term, they ran "an experiment" and that experiment was the purge. the first purge took place on staten island; residents were offered $5000 to participate which comprised staying on staten island and letting the government put a tracking chip in your arm. there was also the opportunity of making more money if they "participated further."
people didnt all agree with this. thats a whole ass thing in the movie and the protagonist literally leads protests against it. it is a controversial thing. the NFFA literally have a sociologist as the face of it, one who talks to news reporters and assures people she and the experiment are apolitical.
the experiment is also fucking rigged. the government really send in roves of neo-nazis to kill citizens as a way of showing how "successful" the experiment is. it was never an experiment.
"but why would people believe that the purge is a good policy?
have you ever heard of propaganda?
throughout the films, there are constant displays of the propaganda the NFFA use to keep the citizens believing in the purge.
the NFFA are constantly lying to the citizens about the actual truth about the country. they often talk about how the stock market is doing great as evidence of a stable economy. there are fake experts in white lab coats lying to you about the purge being a good idea.
these movies are not subtle. they tell you outright that the government is lying to the people.
jesus fucking christ, in the third movie, part of the plot is the fact that in response to corruption being revealed, people are turning against the purge and protesting. dante bishop is a goddamn anti-purge activist.
"crime rate year round wouldnt go down because of the purge, that doesnt make sense "
yeah no shit sherlock. thats literally a defining theme in the entireass franchise. the government is lying. they actually use the purge as population control because theyre fascists.
in the first movie, the NFFA claim the country is basically crime-free and that the unemployment rate is 1%. do you think james demonaco wrote that with the intention of you believing it to be true? have you considered that maybe you were meant to be like huh, thats suspicious?
the first movie is the least overtly political, but one of the defining themes is in regards to the performative nature of the purge and the way it is mythologised.
"all crime is legal. so what, can i commit tax fraud?"
the rules of the purge are made up of. the entire idea is performative. the NFFA are not beholden to these rules; if it benefits them (or if not doing so poses risk to them), they will arrest you for "crimes" you committed during the purge.
in the third movie, The Purge: Election Year, they change the rules because of the risk charlie roan poses to them. roan is a senator running for president on an explicitly anti-purge platform and there is a very good chance that she will win the election, so they revoke the immunity (its still illegal to murder them) granted to government officials during the purge because they plan to kill her.
the NFFA do not care what citizens do during the purge, as long as it is not threatening to them.
"how would they even know if you killed someone an hour after the purge ended?"
they wouldnt. they also wouldnt care.
see above.
"the purge is stupid. people arent inherently violent."
no. no theyre not. thats the fucking point of these films.
they are not subtle films. they come with a free portable toilet so you can watch them without pissing on the poor.
what did you think the plots of these movies were? if the movies were not directly engaging with the concept of the purge and what it actually means, what the fuck do you think the movies are about? do you think the movies are just 90 minutes of indiscriminate violence?
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George Santos, Republican representative from New York just got arrested for 13 federal counts including:
Misuse of campaign funds for personal benefit
Fraudulently applying for COVID unemployment benefits
Lying to the House Commitee if ethics about his income and financial assets
Money laundering
Wire fraud
Note that these charges are essentially accusations in the "innocent until proven guilty" law system. So he's being charged with these crimes, but he's not been found guilty yet.
-fae
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