11.19.2020

It's difficult to tell…

Criminals launder coronavirus relief money, exploit victims through popular apps

“I’ve never seen, in my 28 years’ experience, the amount of fraud that I’ve seen currently,” Roy Dotson, an assistant to the special agent in charge of the Secret Service, told CNBC. “And I think that’s just based sheerly on the amount of money the CARES Act allocated into Covid-related fraud and stimulus.”

…whether the current pandemic has broken so many things or simply revealed so many things broken already. Or whether this is just the way things always were and always will be (I prefer not to believe that one, but still).

Even so, we will need more of it: I am told 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits on December 26. 

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