I just watched a show on ID about two greedy twin sisters who bilked the government out of $20 million in fake delivery charges, including charging nearly a million dollars to deliver a washer. This scam went on for years as the government blindly and stupidly paid these absurd charges, questioning none of them, especially during the Iraq War. One can only imagine how many other criminals are stealing our tax money with other scams and frauds that go unnoticed but not unpaid. Eventually one rare government employee did notice the fraud after years of the twins buying beach houses, cars, costly vacations, boats, and a host of luxury items. The exposure drove one of the twins to suicide while the other was dragged into court and reviled for her years of deception. What was her punishment? Not much. A mere 6-l/2 years in jail, after which I am sure that after her release, she retrieved the millions of dollars she had stowed away for such an minor inconvenience.
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