How a wedding photographer and a failed donut shop owner got $124M in federal cash for COVID testing

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VolFaninFla said:
How a wedding photographer and a failed donut shop owner got $124M in federal cash for COVID testing
I almost wrote UNBELIEVABLE but, sadly, it is actually very believable.
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When I was young, I thought people like the one in the article were stupid because they tried to take advantage of the public.
As I grew older and wanted to do something about it, I thought the government was stupid for allowing people like this to take advantage of the public.
Now, as I see things like this, I think I am stupid for not having thought of how to take advantage of the government to line my pockets in a legally sanctioned way.
 
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As much as I like to blast the government, did the government actually screw up here? For the sake of discussion, let's say we agree that the government should be paying for COVID tests, and we have laws in place preventing people from defrauding the government, and now these offenders will be punished for these violations....did the government actually screw up? Did we need another level of regulation and red tape to make sure this wouldn't happen, or was it reasonable to assume the laws in place should be enough of a deterrent?

I'd hate to take this government failure and use it to encourage more regulation if that isn't merited.
 
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n_huffhines said:
As much as I like to blast the government, did the government actually screw up here? For the sake of discussion, let's say we agree that the government should be paying for COVID tests, and we have laws in place preventing people from defrauding the government, and now these offenders will be punished for these violations....did the government actually screw up? Did we need another level of regulation and red tape to make sure this wouldn't happen, or was it reasonable to assume the laws in place should be enough of a deterrent?

I'd hate to take this government failure and use it to encourage more regulation if that isn't merited.
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I agree in principle on no more regulation, but disagree the government didn't screw up. Way too many red flags here for this to have gone unnoticed. I mean, nine figures is a little absurd.
 
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n_huffhines said:
As much as I like to blast the government, did the government actually screw up here? For the sake of discussion, let's say we agree that the government should be paying for COVID tests, and we have laws in place preventing people from defrauding the government, and now these offenders will be punished for these violations....did the government actually screw up? Did we need another level of regulation and red tape to make sure this wouldn't happen, or was it reasonable to assume the laws in place should be enough of a deterrent?

I'd hate to take this government failure and use it to encourage more regulation if that isn't merited.
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The regulations are already in place, they weren’t acted upon until now… 127m dollars later.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
The regulations are already in place, they weren’t acted upon until now… 127m dollars later.
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That sounds bad, but again, when were they supposed to act? You see suspicious behavior, then you investigate, then you act. What are we talking about, all of this happening over a year? That's not a long time. Verifying fraud/wrongdoing and differentiating it from incompetence, understaffing, etc. takes time and we're talking about potentially shutting down testing centers in a pandemic, so you had better be right. If there are 300 locations, you can see how $124m is quickly accrued. I just don't see enough information in the article to know for sure that the government screwed up in any major way.

The pentagon will lose $500B and nobody has to account for it, so $124m lost to criminals that will be punished barely even moves the needle for the federal government (unfortunately).
 
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Locally the Tellico Homeowners Association got a cool $1.4 million in Kungflu relief funds. Go figure.
 
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