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Jun 2023
16m 6s

The Scam of The Century!

PATRICK BOYLE
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Send us a textAside from losing over 1.13 million people, the United States is thought to have lost billions of dollars in pandemic relief fund fraud, according to the most recent Associated Press analysis, published this week.The analysis discovered that fraudsters took more than US$280 billion in relief cash, while another $123 billion was lost or misspent ... Show More
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