tip of the iceberg!Borrowing 250 million for poor children

A news disclosed by the U.S. Department of Justice on the 20th exposed the largest case related to the U.S. government's epidemic, with a total of nearly $ 250 million in government children's meal for a total of $ 250 million. The US Department of Justice filed a criminal lawsuit against 47 people involved in cases with electricity fraud and money laundering.

According to the US "Washington Post" reported on the 20th, during the new crown pneumonia's epidemic, many schools could not continue to provide free or discount meals, and the US government set up special children's meals for relief. Children issue free meals. Generally speaking, non -governmental organizations will subcontract their work tasks to relevant companies. After these companies send meals to children, they will find non -governmental organizations that receive government funds for reimbursement. The number of children, names and other information. However, the authorities' investigations found that non -governmental organizations named "Raising Our Future" in Minnesota have a major fraud in undertaking children's meal projects. The "Child Nutrition Plan Station" submitted by the agency and the information of children's children's information are seriously fraud. In fact, as early as 2020, the local government discovered that there was a problem with the agency of "raising our future". It was once wanted to intervene in the work, but it was resisted by the agency. As a result, government funds have been continuously called to the institution. It is reported that the organization deceives the federal funding of nearly $ 250 million. The survey also found that the person who participated in the fraud will spend federal funds. Some people buy a house in Minnesota, some people run to Turkey, Kenya and other places to buy holiday real estate, and some people buy luxury cars and jewelry.

The Minister of Justice of the United States, Galan, said that the above case is by far the largest new crown pneumonia epidemic fraud case. After the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia, the US Congress approved nearly $ 5 trillion in emergency expenses, but many of them were set up for emergency money for rescue. In fact, children's meals are just the tip of the iceberg. The Washington Post specially established a project team to investigate the problem of abuse of new crowned bailout funds. The survey found that data from fake unemployed personnel, there is a set of unemployed rescue benefits of over 160 billion US dollars. Some people have followed the small enterprises with a total of $ 1 trillion, and many companies that are not qualified to apply for loans or appropriations are set up to collect funds.

Global Times special reporter Wang Pinzhi

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