Federalist: Joe Biden’s pick to lead his administration’s response to the economic damage caused by government shutdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic previously lost $600 million of Washington state’s aid dollars to foreign fraudsters in a hasty unemployment program rollout.
Earlier this week, reports indicated that former head of the Washington state Employment Security Department (ESD) Suzi LeVine would begin an interim leadership position in the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration program on Monday, overseeing the implementation of the federal unemployment benefits included in Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal. While some have said that new leadership could help remove some of the “chronic delays” in the pandemic payments, others have questioned LeVine’s capabilities to properly and carefully handle the process, considering her rollout track record.
Just last year, LeVine’s department in Washington state lost hundreds of millions of dollars to a long-known Nigerian scammer group called “Scattered Canary.” According to the U.S. Secret Service, Washington was the “primary state targeted” by the “well-organized Nigerian fraud ring exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to commit large-scale fraud against state unemployment insurance programs.” The group, which historically targeted other American aid funds such as for students, Social Security, and disaster relief, used information from other breaches in Washington to create bogus joblessness claims and hike up the system’s number of claims. more
Welcome to the 21st Century Kommunist Kakistocracy of Jackass Joe!
I swear, they are using “Atlas Shrugged” as a script.
Incompetent corruptocrats running everything, put in place due to political favors.
But the good news is the announcement of the new Department of Excuse Making and Biden Speak.
Why should Biden’s cadre of jackasses worry about government losses?? They control the printing of more dollars.
If you hadn’t already bought lead and silver, you weren’t thinking ahead.
I expect much worse and much more of it as each day passes.
THEY hated Donald Trump because he was very competent, he got things done.
We hated Obama, and now Biden, due to their utter incompetence.
Those Nigerians are actually pretty good scammers.
Maybe Nigerian universities offer degrees in advanced scamming techniques?
You just know that Hunter is going to be the drug czar pick.
A perfect pick for the Democrats. Proven history of wasting the taxpayers money. What’s the problem?
In order to be selected, there must be a record of corruption and losses.
It’s all about the skim.
izlamo delenda est …
@ Everybody duck!
“I expect much worse and much more of it as each day passes.”
The Xiden administration is doing its best to fulfil your expectations.
The millions weren’t lost, that’s just what they report happened. The money was siphoned off and funneled back to the politicians.
Who do they think they’re shittin?
…huh, I didn’t know this was about a Nigerian…
https://youtu.be/j1bCsS1u74E
Failing up–it’s the democrat way.
My state, SayWA, run by the people’s republic of Puget Sound. We got Californicated in the 1980s and have been one party communist rule since.
Levine’s agency has strongly resisted the Auditor’s office investigation. Documents were ‘lost’, ‘accidentally destroyed’, sent to a third party and unavailable for some reason. The point is, the stench around this incident strongly suggests an inside job rather than the noble Nigerians. It may not be so, but it would be par for the course for democrats.