Billions of U.S. Tax Dollars Stolen – Where Did They Go?

You may want to sit down before reading this…

According to a report from The Washington Examiner, some serious theft of our tax dollars took place during the pandemic.

Unemployment benefits handed out by the federal government over this past year may have been largely stolen by criminals.

As much as half of the coronavirus-related stimulus aid intended for people in the United States never reached them, according to some new estimates. Instead, it was pocketed by crime syndicates who mostly took the money and fled the country.

Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, a verification service that often prevents this type of fraud, told Axios that more than $400 billion of U.S. aid was lost to fraudulent claims.

Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a company that provides predictive insights and fraud prevention, said most of those stolen funds, at least 70%, were then sent to criminal networks in other countries, including China, Nigeria, and Russia.

Over the past year, the Trump and Biden administrations have signed off on aid packages to bolster depleting state unemployment insurance. The aid was supposed to help people withstand the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns but was quickly recognized as a lucrative exploit for criminals.

Washington Examiner

The article goes on to say that some states have fraud-detection services to prevent massive theft like this, while other states do not. Naturally, those states left unguarded were targeted.

$400 billion went to criminals in communist China, along with Nigeria and Russia.

This is a massive story that should get a lot of attention. However, most people will probably shrug their shoulders.

Somewhere overseas, a group of bold criminals are laughing hysterically.