Nearly $100bn stolen in COVID-19 relief funds: U.S. Secret Service
The Hindu
The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview.
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from relief programmes set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said on Tuesday.
The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency’s national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview.
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