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Fraud and fallout from COVID relief fraud wave
A broad critique of pandemic relief fraud cites AP findings that Americans amid the COVID era misused over 280 billion of relief funds and 123 billion more were wasted. It notes self-certifying need, fake businesses, and theft from agencies like Ohio's unemployment program, with Illinois probes into public officials and a high-profile Cook County judge fraud case.
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Associated Press
U.S
Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services
Illinois
Chicago Park District
Deborah Witzburg
City Hall
Cook County
Timothy Evans
Chicago Sun-Times
Fritz Kaegi
Cook County Board of Review
John Lausch
COVID
Patricia Martin
Oscar Wilkerson Jr
Tuskegee
Wilkerson
Martin
Anna Demacopoulos
Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
Cook County Juvenile Court