Looking back, we might have expected this.

The U.S. is a nation of many hardworking, honest people.

It is also a nation of a not insignificant number of scammers.

When the COVID pandemic ravaged the country's economy,

the federal government intervened with trillions of dollars in assistance

for people and for businesses.

Two-ish years later, we find the money helped many honest people.

And the scammers, wow.

In the midst of the pandemic, the government gave unemployment benefits to the incarcerated,

the imaginary, and the dead.

It sent money to farms that turned out to be front yards.

It gave loans to 342 people who said their name was, quote, in slash A.

There is, of course, a third type of American, the wide-eyed optimist who wants to make it right.

My message to those cheats out there is this.

You can't hide.

We're going to find you.

We're going to make you pay back or just stolen and hold you accountable under the law.

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