{"id":6525,"date":"2022-02-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2022-01-28T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:41:22","slug":"covid-19-relief-fraud-potentially-totals-100-billion-secret-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6525","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Relief Fraud Potentially Totals $100 Billion, Secret Service Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fraud-3.jpe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fraud-3.jpe\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" width=\"-2\" height=\"-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fraud-3.jpe 225w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fraud-3-150x150.jpe 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Secret Service said that nearly $100 billion has potentially been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs designed to help individuals and businesses harmed by the pandemic. The funds have \u201cattracted the attention of individuals and organized criminal networks\u201d world-wide, the agency said in a news release, though its estimate of stolen benefits represents just a fraction of the trillions of dollars in government relief provided since last year. The Secret Service said that it would work closely with a variety of federal agencies \u2014 including the Labor Department and Small Business Administration, which have key roles tracking and administering relief funds \u2014 to investigate and recover fraudulently disbursed funds. The bulk of the potentially misused funds are believed to have stemmed from fraud tied to unemployment insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Struggling financially? Call us at 816-524-4949 or click <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/hoorfarlaw\">here<\/a> to schedule a consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Secret Service said that nearly $100 billion has potentially been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs designed to help individuals and businesses harmed by the pandemic. The funds have \u201cattracted the attention of individuals and organized criminal networks\u201d world-wide, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6525\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}