Whenever the words COVID, Feds, and Fraud come together, the opportunity for irony skyrockets, and this is no exception. Case in point: ABC News has this amusing little story about a device manufacturer that made COVID tests and is being investigated by the Feds for fraud.
An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. …
Between February 2021 and February 2022, Alvi and others at his company allegedly devised a plan to seek reimbursements for tests under the government’s Health Resources and Services Administration, which covered the cost of COVID-19 testing for those without health insurance.
These tests were either never performed, performed in such a way that the results were unreliable; or had already been paid for by patients, according to the indictment.
Plenty of justifiable head-shaking to that, but we’re not even at the funny part. That would be this.
“It is absolutely reprehensible that the defendant would use a public health crisis to allegedly defraud taxpayers and further put public health at risk by providing fraudulent COVID-19 test results,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said in a statement.
I agree. Can we have the hundreds of billions spent on COVID back, the jobs, careers, businesses, relationships, educations, livelihoods, constitutional rights, and lives unnecessarily lost as a result of deliberate misinformation and disinformation peddled by public health officials, the government, and Big Pharma?
That’s what the government took from us as a result of its COVID fraud.
As for results, the default approved PCR test wasn’t designed for detecting SARS-CoV2, and this was known early and often. Despite that, the CDC’s guidance produced millions of false positives that sent every life around them into a tailspin every time it happened. Those false-positive cases reinforced bad and often illegal or unconstitutional policies. And that was before the lies about the vaccine, the unvaccinated, and the rest of the fraud.
“It is absolutely reprehensible that the [government] would use a public health crisis to allegedly defraud taxpayers.”
Are we not amused?
