47 charged with siphoning $250M from COVID-19 child meal program
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
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| 0:00.0 | federal authorities on federal authorities unveiled charges. This is against 47 people this week |
| 0:06.5 | accused of siphoning $250 million from a coronavirus pandemic relief program that was designed to |
| 0:14.0 | provide meals for children in the during the pandemic. But the Justice Department saying it was |
| 0:21.2 | all just one big brazen scheme of staggering proportions. |
| 0:27.3 | Well, so what was it? Can you read that last part of that? It was a what fill in the blank? |
| 0:32.6 | A brazen scheme of staggering proportions. $250 million. One more time. Just what it's called. |
| 0:39.2 | A brazen scheme of staggering proportions. You could say that about the entire |
| 0:45.0 | money, print a pollusa that took place in 2020 and 2021. The whole thing was completely ridiculous |
| 0:54.4 | riddled with waste, fraud and abuse. And here is another example. And people should be outraged |
| 1:01.4 | about this because this was printed money. It wasn't cut from somewhere else. It was printed |
| 1:07.2 | money that is driving up the price of absolutely everything as we just laid out. And it was given |
| 1:14.9 | to people, organizations, groups who did not follow through and the things they were supposed to |
| 1:20.1 | follow through on it went to the pocket of select individuals. And this once again shows that for |
| 1:25.1 | these people, I won't say any names from Indiana who is a US Senator who voted for this and is |
| 1:30.8 | super proud about it. He goes by the surname Duke of Spendingburg, who will defend this to the |
| 1:37.5 | death. Here's another 250 million of fraud and abuse because there was no oversight. Nobody |
| 1:42.6 | thought any of this through. Nobody had any checks and balances on this. I mean, this is small potatoes |
| 1:47.0 | 250 million. There's hundreds of billions that have been uncovered in this. But another example |
| 1:51.9 | of how these people in Washington DC have destroyed our existence and they don't care at all. |
| 1:58.7 | So this was a federally funded program with COVID money and it was supposed to serve |
| 2:04.0 | needy children in Minnesota during the pandemic. And the FBI director is saying that they went to |
| 2:11.2 | great lengths to divert a quarter of a billion dollars just to enrich themselves. And there was no |
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