{"id":240268,"date":"2021-05-01T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watchdog-blasts-treasury-for-blocking-covid-relief-fraud-probes\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:39:26","slug":"watchdog-blasts-treasury-for-blocking-covid-relief-fraud-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watchdog-blasts-treasury-for-blocking-covid-relief-fraud-probes\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watchdog blasts Treasury for blocking COVID relief fraud probes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Watchdog blasts Treasury for blocking COVID relief fraud probes<\/strong>”
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A bureaucratic turf battle between the Treasury Department and a government watchdog named by President Trump could be giving free rein to scammers sucking cash out of federal COVID-19 relief programs.<\/p>\n

Brian Miller, the Trump-app<\/a>ointed Special Inspector General<\/a> for Pandemic Recovery, complained in a new report<\/a> that the Treasury Department is thwarting his investigations into COVID-relief fraud and \u201cdouble dipping\u201d \u2014 and that the Department of Justice has backed the block. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequence is permanently reduced oversight\u201d of the $2.2 trillion of pandemic relief spending that Congress approved in 2020, along with the $1.9 trillion of additional funds authorized by President Joe Biden this year, Miller wrote Friday.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s job as the spending programs\u2019 watchdog was established by the CARES Act last year. The former White House attorney won Senate confirmation in April.<\/p>\n

But according to documents included in his report, the scope of his oversight has been restricted by the Treasury Department \u2014 which claims that multi-billion-dollar programs like the Coronavirus Relief Fund, the Payroll Support Program, and the Paycheck Protection Program are outside Miller\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last several months, SIGPR\u2019s efforts to provide important oversight have been met with resistance from the Department of the Treasury and the Treasury Inspector General,\u201d Miller charged in the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it true \u2026 that the \u2018temperature has cooled on oversight\u2019 just when we need it most?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

But a Treasury official said that multiple federal agencies \u2014 including the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Oversight Commission \u2014 are keeping an eye on pandemic outlays, according to The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fraudsters may have bilked up to $660 billion out of the first round of spending from the Paycheck Protection Program alone, investigators said in September.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Watchdog blasts Treasury for blocking COVID relief fraud probes” A bureaucratic turf battle between the Treasury Department and a government watchdog named by President Trump could be giving free rein to scammers sucking cash out of federal COVID-19 relief programs. Brian Miller, the Trump-appointed Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery, complained in a new report…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/TreasuryDepartment.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[104101,1545,71006,72453,70514,82897,73809],"class_list":["post-240268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-1-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-fraud","tag-inspector-general","tag-justice-department","tag-paycheck-protection-program","tag-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}