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‘Grifting Grandmothers,’ COVID Scammers Among Families That Cost Taxpayers $50 Million

About $50 million in federal fraud could have been avoided if grants were blocked for people living with convicted fraudsters, according to a new Senate report.

The office of Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee as well as the Senate DOGE Caucus, identified 15 “fraudster families” that received millions in taxpayer funding, according to the report released Thursday.

“While some families have a tradition of running 5Ks on holidays, fraud runs in these families. They’ll steal $5K, or more, and then make a run for it,” the report says.

Convicted fraudsters included four “grifting grandmothers” who cheated the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of $11.5 million by filing 200 false claims for farming discrimination.

According to the Justice Department, “the claimants had not suffered discrimination and, in most cases, had not even attempted to........

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