COVID-related unemployment fraud may total $191B

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The U.S. government may have misspent roughly $191 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits, a top federal watchdog told Congress today, as Washington continues to uncover the vast and still-growing extent of the waste, fraud and abuse targeting coronavirus aid. According to The Washington Post, the new estimate—computed by Larry Turner, the inspector general of the

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