Back in the Covid days, Axios ran with a wild story claiming as much as 50% of unemployment benefits were being stolen by street gangs and state-backed foreign criminal syndicates. Last week, Congress finally got to the bottom of where that claim came from. Turns out, it was made up by a company trying to sell anti-fraud services to government agencies.

Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen https://www.axios.com/2021/06/10/pandemic-unemployment-fraud-benefits-stolen

ID.me letter https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/6.17.22%20ID.me%20letter.pdf

House COVID report https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/2022.12.09%20Preparing%20for%20and%20Preventing%20the%20Next%20Public%20Health%20Emergency.pdf

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