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Celeste Maloy: “Fraudsters exploited relief programs and stole billions of…”

Featuring: Celeste Maloy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 2nd Congressional District

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Anti-Fraud Week in Congress

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

Pretty common sense. We've all seen examples of what happens when government programs move money out the door without adequate safeguards. During the pandemic, Fraudsters exploited relief programs and stole billions of dollars that were intended to help Americans [during the pandemic]. One bill we took up last week would make permanent the anti fraud tools to help to uncover billions in suspicious pandemic spending. (00:22–00:29)

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Asserts that billions were stolen from pandemic relief programs by fraudsters.

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