Easy money': How international scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits
Among the ripest targets for the cybertheft have been jobless programs. The federal government cannot say for sure how much of the more than $900 billion in pandemic-related unemployment relief has been stolen, but credible estimates range from $87 million to $400 billion — at least half of which went to foreign criminals, law enforcement officials say.
*An Illinois Senator named Everett Dirksen said that half a century ago. Maybe today he'd have to say trillion.
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