Convicts Cash In On Fed Stimulus
Kurt Brouwer August 25th, 2009
Cons cash in on stimulus money (Boston Herald, August 25, 2009, Laura Crimaldi)
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates - and now red-faced feds want it back.
“Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running the asylum in Washington,” U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Now it appears they are being compensated for their efforts.”
Not only did the feds send the cash to incarcerated cons, but they failed to respond to state officials who sounded the alarm about the inmate windfall - now the subject of a national probe…
Small potatoes of course. But, if you just multiply this little fiasco across the country and across thousands of projects, I suspect that wasted time, money and effort is enormous.
See also:
Government: It ain’t broke yet, but just wait
Collateral Damage From Cash for Clunkers
- Economy , Geopolitics , deficit , income taxes
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