Report: Half of Covid unemployment funds stolen, mostly by foreign state-backed agents

By World Tribune on June 15, 2021   Americas, Exclusives, Rest of The Best, Top Stories, U.S., U.S. Economy, World Links, World Tribune  

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2021 Some $400 billion in U.S. pandemic unemployment money was stolen via fraud, most of it pilfered by foreign state-backed operatives, a report said. “Criminals may have stolen as much as half of the unemployment benefits the U.S. has been pumping out over the past year,” Axios reported on Friday. […]