{"id":121328,"date":"2022-09-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/feds-in-florida-and-two-other-states-to-lead-crackdown-on-covid-19-relief-fraud"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:30:00","slug":"feds-in-florida-and-two-other-states-to-lead-crackdown-on-covid-19-relief-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/feds-in-florida-and-two-other-states-to-lead-crackdown-on-covid-19-relief-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Feds in Florida and two other states to lead crackdown on COVID-19 relief fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds due to phony claims, the U.S. government has started deploying investigative teams in South Florida, California and Maryland to zero in on criminal organizations that are suspected of stealing from public programs offering small business loans and unemployment insurance. The federal strike-force teams were picked in these states not only because they have experienced significant relief fraud during the pandemic , but they also boast the resources to help combat the escalating problem across the country, federal authorities said in an announcement Wednesday. &#8220;In some ways, this is a novel approach dictated by the type of fraud we&#8217;re dealing with,&#8221; Kevin Chambers, the Justice Department&#8217;s associate deputy attorney general, said in an interview with the Miami Herald. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not uncommon to go to districts where the prosecutors have developed a particular expertise in specific financial crimes.&#8221; In effect, the three teams working with the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in South Florida,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In some ways, this is a novel approach dictated by the type of fraud we&#8217;re dealing with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,424,8,388],"class_list":["post-121328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-ppp","tag-public-safety","tag-unemployment-benefits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}