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60 Minutes

05/11/2025: Fraud, To Walk Again, Jamie Lee Curtis

60 Minutes

CBS News

Cbs, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, News

42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on rampant fraud in government programs like unemployment, food stamps, disaster aid and more. With few safeguards at state and federal levels, taxpayers are falling victim to complex schemes carried out by scammers, hackers and transnational criminal organizations, costing the government hundreds of billions of dollars each year. For people who’ve suffered traumatic spinal cord injuries that have caused paralysis, positive news has been scarce. However, as correspondent Anderson Cooper discovers, innovative technology now in an early clinical trial is allowing participants to stand up and walk or move their arms – by thinking about it. Cooper reports from the NeuroRestore research lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he meets the team leading this groundbreaking research and hears the stories of patients enrolled in the trial. Jamie Lee Curtis has been making movies for almost 50 years. Not surprising for a child born into Hollywood royalty. But to hear her tell it, leaving school as a teenager, only to graduate into an A-list movie star before she was 30, was never the plan. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi talks with Curtis in Los Angeles about her long career in tinsel town and about her recent wave of award-winning performances that came to her in her 60’s. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's the most popular F word in Washington, fraud.

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The fraud has been incredible.

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And it cost the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

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What we learned about who's committing it might surprise you.

0:52.3

What we're really talking about is nation-state actors.

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We're talking about organized crime rings.

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We're talking about using vast amounts of stolen Americans' identities

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to monetize them for, you know, criminal activity.

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Tonight, we travel to Lausanne, Switzerland, to tell you about promising new technology that's

1:15.6

helping paralyzed people with spinal cord injuries, stand up and walk just by thinking about it.

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