The Numbers Are Too Big to Ignore When fraud losses reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars per year, we are no longer talking about bad actors slipping through the cracks. We are talking about a system designed in such a way that abuse becomes rational, scalable, and profitable. This is the reality of systemic government fraud — not an exception to the rules, but an outcome built into the structure itself. Based on government watchdog data, U.S. taxpayers lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud. During the pandemic alone: Unemployment insurance fraud may have exceeded $100 billion PPP and EIDL loan fraud likely surpassed $200 billion Medicare and COVID-testing scams generated billions in false claims…

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