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BlackSmith

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That’s some tier1 level abuse right there.

Here’s a snapshot of what real waste and abuse looks like...

waysandmeans.house.gov

Ways and Means Republicans Seek Answers on Hundreds of Billions in Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits - House Committee on Ways and Means

Washington, DC – After President Biden once again declared “the watchdogs are back” during the State of the Union yesterday, a hearing on unemployment insurance fraud convened by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) revealed that the federal government still does not know...
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Fiddler

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yep, I think they may overstate it a bit, but it does need rooked into as well. Too bad it's all mucked up with political revenge in mind.

Seems they'd be jumping on Project lightning speed, or what ever it was called, for releasing all those shots unregulated and short-cutted like that.

Or how about all the employers who collected PPP and never paid employees...
 
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I guess that follows if you want to pretend one party didn't control all the involved administration at the time.
 
CurSedVoyce

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Democrat Senate majority as I remember. New administration coming in. I would wager, being mostly anti trump at the time, if they really did not want him, they would not have approved him.
Whole bloody lot of them either need to be cleaned out and do over, or, set enough fear into them they quit the bull shit.
 
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Hell, I can point out a ton of corruption on our local level government. Some of which a grand jury indicted, some went to jail. Embezzlement mostly. A tax officer comes to mind. A few more. Both sides of the isle. No matter. I knew the tax officer personally. Thought pretty highly of her. Active in the community. Did a lot of good for a lot of folks. Skimmed about 150,000 or so dollars off taxes coming in.
Went to jail. Took a lot of us by surprise.
I guess the latest one did too. Funds for the library or some such thing.
Hospital has some going on there as well. Full audit going on.
People elected in or appointed by elected officials. No matter.
Accountability is what matters. Glad they caught him. Awful small fish to make an example of though.
 
Fiddler

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Yeah, I get it. we're just talking about different things.
I only posted the one incident (which was in the news today). Left it at that.

I can relate to your broader context though, and I don't disagree with you in general. We've got a bunch underhanded stuff going on in our County and Township gov't right now as well.
 
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CurSedVoyce said:
Hell, I can point out a ton of corruption on our local level government. Some of which a grand jury indicted, some went to jail. Embezzlement mostly. A tax officer comes to mind. A few more. Both sides of the isle. No matter. I knew the tax officer personally. Thought pretty highly of her. Active in the community. Did a lot of good for a lot of folks. Skimmed about 150,000 or so dollars off taxes coming in.
Went to jail. Took a lot of us by surprise.
I guess the latest one did too. Funds for the library or some such thing.
Hospital has some going on there as well. Full audit going on.
People elected in or appointed by elected officials. No matter.
Accountability is what matters. Glad they caught him. Awful small fish to make an example of though.
Click to expand...
They took down a few top government people in TN too recently. Similar thing going on.
 
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BETHESDA - The mayor of College Park was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography Thursday morning, according to officials.

47-year-old Patrick Wojahn, a Democrat, faces up to 360 years in prison after being charged by Prince George's County Police with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material.

www.fox5dc.com

College Park mayor arrested on 56 counts of child pornography; Faces up to 360 years in prison

The mayor of College Park was arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography Thursday morning, according to officials.
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Do you think it's justified in this case? With no exceptions? And it's completely arbitrary, like all penal sentences are, simply decided by legislation.
 
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