Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.

Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, unbelievable and maddening stories of COVID relief fraudsters, they're

stealing your tax money.

Since the beginning, I've been trying to track the COVID relief money fraud. So many

billions of dollars going out the door. In fact there were trillions of dollars going out the door with very little oversight.

And we've been looking at that since the beginning.

I first interviewed the Small Business Administration Inspector General Mike, about three years ago on

full measure. Most of the COVID relief funds intended for small businesses went out

through the Small Business Administration to banks and then to in some cases people who are deserving,

but apparently in too many cases, con artists and fraudsters.

To date, investigators have flagged millions of fraudulent loan applications for COVID relief funds,

applications that netted results for the fraudsters.

They got the money.

And as such, investigators have identified billions of your tax

dollars that walked out the door to scamsters. That's my cover story on

Sunday April 28th on full measure. In today's podcast, an extended interview

three years after my first interview

with Inspector General Ware,

he brings us up to speed. Can you explain just in simple terms what the Small Business Administration has to do with

COVID relief funds?

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