The government is giving us another reason not to trust them by showing us How to Work for the IRS & Steal PPP Funds from the American Taxpayers. This is really rich. I’d like to know why a group of spoiled, incompetents thought they had a right to claim they were businesses. The Payroll Protection Program (PPP) was designed to help small businesses pay their employees. Funds could also be used to keep the lights on for their struggling businesses during this made-up COVID fiasco. Our country should have never been required to shut down in the first place. Now we know that at least a few of the agency apparatchik stayed busy while the rest of us were forced to close. Maybe this is why they are persistently over 1 million returns behind schedule.
Bureaucratic Monkey-See, Monkey DO
This is another example of the hubris taught to the least qualified members of society – in regard to productivity – by the monsters of the left obama and hillary clinton. And we can still see that prevalent “I can do anything I want,” attitude every time the current regime representatives testify to Congress. Every day they refuse to answer for their actions and the irreparable damage they inflict on taxpayers – especially parents and small business owners.
I saw this coming. If lois learner can get away with persecuting conservative non-profits, and if presidential elections in the United States can be bought and paid for by china, then of course the idiot bureaucrats will steal money from you and me. Their leaders do it every day… and you pay for it.
IRS employees rip off COVID relief programs, splurge on trips, shopping sprees, DOJ alleges
This week’s Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the SBA for approving more than $400,000 in COVID relief loans to five current or former IRS employees who allegedly used the proceeds to purchase spa services, cars, jewelry and travel, according to the Department of Justice.
The IRS employees — one former and four current — allegedly submitted fraudulent loan applications through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) programs in schemes seeking to obtain a combined $1.1 million in loans, the government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks.com reported.
The five alleged fraudsters were approved for a combined $418,125 in loans, individually receiving between $27,550 and $171,400.
The individuals charged were: Brian Saulsberry, 46, of Memphis; Courtney Quinshe Westmoreland, 38 of Cordova, Tenn.; Fatina Hewitt, 35, of Olive Branch, Miss.; Roderick DeMarco White II, 27, of Memphis; and Tina Humes, 56, of Memphis.
According to the DOJ:
- Saulsberry obtained $171,400 in loan funds and purchased a Mercedes-Benz.
- Hewitt scored $28,900 in loans and purchased Gucci clothing and a trip to Las Vegas.
- With more than $66,000 in illicit loan proceeds, White purchased personal items, including a Gucci bag.
- With $123,612 in ill-gotten funds, Humes splurged on jewelry and trips to Last Vegas.
- Westmoreland treated herself to manicures, massages and luxury clothing with more than $11,000 in fraudulent pandemic loans finagled through multiple PPP and EIDL program applications for a purported apparel business. She also allegedly submitted fraudulent unemployment insurance benefit applications to the Tennessee Department of Labor while she was a full-time IRS employee, snagging another $16,050 in UI benefits.
The inspector generals for both the IRS and SBA investigated the fraudulent loans.
“We will continue to aggressively pursue IRS employees who breach the public trust, safeguarding the integrity of the IRS,” said Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, whose office’s mission includes investigating allegations of crime committed by IRS employees.
“It is especially egregious when individuals that hold positions of public trust engage in criminal activity,” said Small Business Administration Inspector General Hannibal “Mike” Ware. “OIG is a ready partner in safeguarding the integrity of SBA’s programs and in bringing wrongdoers to justice.”
I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg, there’s than meets the eye on “How to Work for the IRS & Steal PPP Funds from the American Taxpayers.” I’m sure this graft is being repeated in all 443 agencies. That’s right. There are 443 ways the government robs us each and every day.
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