Billions Gone and Little to Show for It Years After Rampant COVID Fraud

The Center Square (Casey Harper), The Star News Network

Years after the passage of federal COVID-era relief and the subsequent loss of likely

hundreds of billions, lawmakers are still unsure where that money went, how to get it back, and seemingly have done little to prevent it from happening again. Federal watchdog and other reports estimate anywhere from $200 billion to half a trillion was lost to waste, fraud and abuse across various federal and state COVID-era programs. “The estimated amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse in COVID-related programs are simply … mind-boggling."