'A brazen scheme of staggering proportions': 47 people charged with siphoning $250M from COVID-19 relief program that fed children
Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to USA TODAY about the future of living with pandemics.WASHINGTON – Federal authorities unveiled charges against 47 people accused of siphoning $250 million from a coronavirus pandemic relief program designed to provide meals for children in the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme brought so far by the Justice Department.
"I commend the work of the skilled investigators and prosecutors who unraveled the lies, deception, and mountains of false documentation to bring this complex case to light," Luger said.Attorney General Merrick Garland described the federal action as the most extensive fraud case to emerge from the government's massive pandemic relief effort.
Federal prosecutors said the operation was allegedly overseen by Aimee Bock, founder and executive director of the local non-profit, whose federal aid disbursements dramatically increased from $3.4 million in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021. Prosecutors accused the suspects of submitting false meal counts, fake food purchase invoices, fabricated attendance rosters some of which were drawn from the website www.listofrandomnames.com.
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