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2025-02-19 Government Corruption

CNN anchor surprised when former Social Security official laughs off questions about fraud

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ] Top

#1 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-19 00:36|| 2025-02-19 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 This guy needs to be pre-emptively jailed.
Its attitudes like his that are the root of corruption. Stunning arrogance, but I suspect this attitude IS the swamp.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-02-19 03:54|| 2025-02-19 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn the typos, full speed ahead. I need coffee.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-02-19 03:55|| 2025-02-19 03:55|| Front Page Top

plucking people’s personal identifying information

As if the feds don't already have all that on virtually everyone in the USA.

Posted by q 2025-02-19 05:23|| 2025-02-19 05:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ...just not them. Google, insurance companies, the Chinese....

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-19 07:37|| 2025-02-19 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 So it was screwed up, they knew it was screwed up, and didn't do anything.
Because that would involve actually doing their jobs.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-19 12:28|| 2025-02-19 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 There is not like a zombie apocalypse of people, you know, cadavers running around with Social Security checks coming out of their pockets.

That, right there, has me convinced. What pill popping retard thought that deflection line was a good idea?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-19 13:48|| 2025-02-19 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8
The DC Swamp is running for the Hills.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-19 14:37|| 2025-02-19 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Laughing all the way to the overseas crypto account, methinks.

Posted by Regular joe 2025-02-19 14:51|| 2025-02-19 14:51|| Front Page Top

#10 a 2023 report from the IG of the SSAdmin estimated about $71B in improper payments over, I think, a ten year period

of course this was an estimate

SSA began a claw back but only expects to recoup about $200M by 2026

There is probably far more fraud in the Medicaid program, especially since the Obamacare legislation. That will be a struggle to investigate as a lot of it involves a combination of upcoding, overdiagnosis and other measures.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-19 16:55|| 2025-02-19 16:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Even CNN anchors understand the line item deduction from their paycheck for 'Social Security'.

I've heard the DOGE Team called many nasty things, but "nit-wits" isn't one of them. Bold move.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-19 17:52|| 2025-02-19 17:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm not sure O'Malley addressed the question at all. he just mocked the auditor.

Posted by Bobby 2025-02-19 18:53|| 2025-02-19 18:53|| Front Page Top

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