“Pay and chase doesn’t work,” said Mr. Talcove, who said the government could have headed off almost all of the fraud by spending a fraction of the $1.4 billion on detection and prevention ahead of the spending.
Feds fall short on recovering pandemic fraud; less than 1% has been clawed back
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He said the perpetrators are the usual actors, some domestic and some transnational, many of whom were also involved in pandemic fraud.
Pandemic karma: Fraudsters now stealing from people who stole COVID relief money
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