When the Panic was being ginned up in 2020, the feds set up so-called COVID-19 “relief” programs. Suddenly the government was indiscriminately doling out hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars to people adversely affected by the government’s hysterical Faucist overreactions.
How typical is that: the government creates a problem, then throws money to ameliorate the pain their own disastrous policies created.
In the case of COVID welfare, though, the feds may as well have blown a dog whistle that only fraudsters could hear, because some days it seems like half the population has worked one sort of scam or another with one or another of these eminently scammable programs.
From reading indictments, I have learned about, among other things, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. And Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which is not to be confused with the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). And don’t forget the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF), the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) or the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.
Economic injury? All the above hustles, and no doubt others, have been ripped off more than somewhat. To put it in local terms, Monica Cannon-Grant was not the only hustler who seen her opportunities and took ‘em.
If these grifts, flim-flams and cons get any worse, the FBI may have to shift over some agents from their two largest criminal divisions – the ones charged with framing…
