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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8916259" data-attributes="member: 683408">Trump is big on fighting fraud.&quot;There are thousands of open investigations into pandemic-era fraud at the SBA, but on Jan. 24 President Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5106541-donald-trump-inspectors-general-ousters/" target="_blank">removed the agency’s chief fraud investigator</a>, Inspector General Hannibal “Mike” Ware, without cause — and likely in violation of the law — alongside 17 other agency inspectors general.Lawmakers from both parties should be concerned that Ware’s firing is Trump’s attempt to avoid responsibility for his first administration’s ham-fisted delivery of pandemic relief programs, such as the Paycheck Protection Program, which enabled more than <a href="https://www.sba.gov/article/2023/06/27/us-small-business-administration-releases-report-anti-fraud-control-measures-pandemic-relief" target="_blank">86 percent</a> of all pandemic fraud in the SBA’s $1.2 trillion relief programs.&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5117399-by-firing-inspectors-general-trump-is-covering-up-pandemic-era-fraud/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8916259, member: 683408"] Trump is big on fighting fraud. [I]"There are thousands of open investigations into pandemic-era fraud at the SBA, but on Jan. 24 President Trump [URL='https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5106541-donald-trump-inspectors-general-ousters/']removed the agency’s chief fraud investigator[/URL], Inspector General Hannibal “Mike” Ware, without cause — and likely in violation of the law — alongside 17 other agency inspectors general. Lawmakers from both parties should be concerned that Ware’s firing is Trump’s attempt to avoid responsibility for his first administration’s ham-fisted delivery of pandemic relief programs, such as the Paycheck Protection Program, which enabled more than [URL='https://www.sba.gov/article/2023/06/27/us-small-business-administration-releases-report-anti-fraud-control-measures-pandemic-relief']86 percent[/URL] of all pandemic fraud in the SBA’s $1.2 trillion relief programs." [URL unfurl="true"]https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5117399-by-firing-inspectors-general-trump-is-covering-up-pandemic-era-fraud/[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]

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