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The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen,
federal watchdog says

FILE - A sheet of uncut $100 bills is inspected during the printing
process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency
Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2013. More than $200
billion may have been stolen from two large pandemic-relief
initiatives, according to a new estimates from a federal watchdog
investigating federally funded programs designed to help small
businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a
hundred years. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

FILE - A sheet of uncut $100 bills is inspected during the printing
process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency
Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2013. More than $200
billion may have been stolen from two large pandemic-relief
initiatives, according to a new estimates from a federal watchdog
investigating federally funded programs designed to help small
businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a
hundred years. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two
large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a
federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that helped
small businesses survive the [159]worst public health crisis in more
than a hundred years.

[160]The numbers issued Tuesday by the U.S. Small Business
Administration inspector general are much greater than the office’s
previous projections and underscore how vulnerable the Paycheck
Protection and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs were to
fraudsters, particularly during the early stages of the coronavirus
pandemic.

The inspector general’s report said “at least 17 percent of all
COVID-EIDL and PPP funds were disbursed to potentially fraudulent
actors.” The fraud estimate for the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster
Loan program is more than $136 billion, which represents 33 percent of
the total money spent on that program, according to the report. The
Paycheck Protection fraud estimate is $64 billion, the inspector
general said.
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In comments attached to the report, a senior SBA official disputed the
new numbers. Bailey DeVries, SBA’s acting associate administrator for
capital access, said the inspector general’s “approach contains serious
flaws that significantly overestimate fraud and unintentionally mislead
the public to believe that the work we did together had no significant
impact in protecting against fraud.”

The SBA inspector general had previously estimated fraud in the
COVID-19 disaster loan program at $86 billion and the Paycheck
Protection program at $20 billion.

[169]The Associated Press reported June 13 that scammers and swindlers
potentially swiped about $280 billion in COVID-19 emergency aid; an
additional $123 billion was wasted or misspent. The bulk of the
potential losses are from the two SBA programs and another to provide
unemployment benefits to workers suddenly unemployed by the economic
upheaval caused by the pandemic. The three initiatives were begun
during the Trump administration and inherited by President Joe Biden.
Combined, the loss estimated by AP represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion
the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID relief aid.

The federal government has now reported $276 billion in potential
fraud, a figure that aligns with the AP’s analysis.

Gene Sperling, a senior White House official overseeing pandemic relief
spending, said in a interview Tuesday that 86% of the fraud, or
potential fraud, in the emergency loan programs happened during the
first nine months of the pandemic when President Donald Trump was in
office.

“$200 billion is a very big number, but this, again, should be
remembered as potential fraud,” Sperling said. “We think the amount of
likely or actual fraud is significantly less, significantly under $100
billion, perhaps around $40 billion.”

But he added, “whichever it is, it’s unacceptably high.”

The SBA inspector general, Hannibal “Mike” Ware, said in a statement
Tuesday that the report “utilizes investigative casework, prior
(inspector general) reporting, and cutting-edge data analysis to
identify multiple fraud schemes used to potentially steal over $200
billion from American taxpayers and exploit programs meant to help
those in need.”

Ware, in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month,
said these latest fraud figures won’t be the last ones issued by his
office.

“We will continue to assess fraud until we’re finished with the
investigations on these things,” Ware said. That could be a long while.
His office has a backlog of more than 90,000 actionable leads into
pandemic relief fraud, which amounts to nearly a century’s worth of
work.

[170]SBA issued its own report Tuesday detailing anti-fraud measures it
has adopted. The agency’s administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman, said
in an emailed statement that the report outlines “the effective
measures added to fight fraud and hold bad actors responsible.”

SBA previously told The Associated Press the federal government has not
developed an accepted system for assessing fraud in federal programs.
Previous analyses, the agency said, have pointed to “potential fraud”
or “fraud indicators” in a manner that conveys those numbers as a true
fraud estimate when they are not. For the COVID-19 Economic Injury
Disaster Loan program, the agency said it’s “working estimate” found
$28 billion in likely fraud.

Fraud in pandemic unemployment assistance programs stands at $76
billion, according to congressional testimony from the Labor
Department’s inspector general, Larry Turner. That’s a conservative
estimate. An additional $115 billion mistakenly went to people who
should not have received the benefits, according to his testimony.

The Biden administration put in place stricter rules to stem pandemic
fraud, including use of a “Do Not Pay” database. Biden also recently
proposed a $1.6 billion plan to boost law enforcement efforts to go
after pandemic relief fraudsters.

Bob Westbrooks, a former executive director of the federal Pandemic
Response Accountability Committee, said in an interview the $200
billion number is “unacceptable, unprecedented and unfathomable.”
Westbrooks published a book last week, “Left Holding the Bag: A
Watchdog’s Account of How Washington Fumbled its COVID Test.”

“The swift distribution of funds and program integrity are not mutually
exclusive,” Westbrooks said Tuesday. “The government can walk and chew
gum at the same time. They should have put basic fraud controls in
place to verify people’s identity and to make sure targeted relief was
getting into the right hands.”

The fraudulent payouts have consequences, said John Griffin, a finance
professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of
Business,.

Griffin and colleagues said i [171]n a new paper that pandemic relief
fraud inflated house prices.

The study found that people who fraudulently obtained Paycheck
Protection loans were more likely to buy a house than people who got
legitimate loans, and housing prices increased 5.7 percentage points on
average in ZIP codes with high amounts of fraud during the pandemic,
even after controlling for other factors that affect home prices such
as land supply, prior house price growth and the ability to telework.
For a $400,000 house, that would add $22,800.

The study also found increases in consumer spending in ZIP codes where
people received high amounts of fraudulent funds, which may have fueled
inflation more broadly, Griffin said Tuesday.

“If you paid too much for your house because fraudsters pumped up the
house prices in your ZIP code and then your house price ends up going
down, you could be the victim of an unintended consequence of fraud,”
he said in an interview. “It’s another reason why we should care about
fraud.”

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