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Read part 1 of our COVID con series to see how lax government oversight of COVID-19 relief funds allowed fraudsters to take advantage of the pandemic and rake in cash as small businesses failed.
For the past two years, states and the federal government have spent billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds on a wide range of policy programs unrelated to the pandemic, according to a review conducted by Just the News.
The review found that, in numerous cases across the country, local, state, and federal officials used pandemic relief to fund other, often politically contentious spending priorities, such as teacher pay raises and cash grants for illegal immigrants.
One of the most prominent examples came at the federal level, where lawmakers attempted to bail out union pension plans facing possible insolvency…
