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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️PSA [Canada/British Columbia] phishing alert - see screenshotWhenever/however you are contacted, especially where internet or cellular technology is used, ignore all links etc.If you receive an email, open (yourself!) a new browser tab & independently navigate to the intended link. 🙏<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scams</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalLiteracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Telus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Telus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RBC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineAccounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnlineAccounts</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoMusk's DOGE could end up once again generating more expenses than it saves... "On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance.Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office. But according to previously unreported emails obtained by ProPublica, a top lawyer at the IRS warned administration officials that the performance-related language in his agency’s termination letter was “a false statement” that amounted to “fraud” if the agency kept the language in the letter.The emails reveal that in the hours before the IRS sent out its Feb. 20 termination letter, a fierce dispute played out at the agency’s highest levels.Joseph Rillotta, a senior IRS lawyer, wrote that “no one” at the IRS had taken into account the performance of the probationary workers set to be fired. Rillotta urged that the language be struck from the draft termination letter.If the falsehood wasn’t removed, Rillotta said he would file a report with the inspector general for the IRS."<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a>

Kim Perales<a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> isn't just "auditing": systems -going in & looking at stuff -CXL contracts -say it's saving the American ppl💰, but when you CXL a contract, you're still resp bc there's a legal AGTt there for paying out part of it -oftentimes when the govt buys something, it -in bulk -get a discount -give you 5, 10% off. But when you CXL that contract, you're already paying 10, 15% of what that contract might have had to be anyway to CXL it -likely not saving💰.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-doge-government-auditing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-doge-government-auditing/</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"$1.4 billion not accounted for?" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wCMSSjTKk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wCMSSjTKk</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Theft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accounting</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Tesla Update: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accounting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FinancialIrregularities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FinancialIrregularities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FinancialTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FinancialTimes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing <a href="https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/</a>"The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where." <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wyattprivilege.bsky.social/post/3lkrjhgyxqs2z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/wyattprivilege.bsky.social/post/3lkrjhgyxqs2z</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waste</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Swasticar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swasticar</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Schadenfreude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schadenfreude</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funny</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla <a href="https://archive.is/uLXoy#selection-3271.0-3271.197" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/uLXoy#selection-3271.0-3271.197</a>"attention is returning to the group’s underlying numbers, now that its fully diluted <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StockMarket</a> valuation has crashed from $1.7tn to below $800bn.Such anomalies can be red flags, potentially indicative of weak internal controls. Aggressive classification of operating expenses as investment can be used to artificially boost reported profits."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waste</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finance</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing <a href="https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/</a>"Many <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/accounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accounting</a> for years...Today, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FinancialTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FinancialTimes</a> has released a new report pointing to a $1.4 billion gap in assets...The report also points to other red flags...but with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> kneecapping the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SEC</a>, repercussions are unlikely."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waste</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finance</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Swasticar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swasticar</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cars</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Bruce MacDonaldIt's beyond me how people thought they could slosh a quarter-billion dollars around south Minneapolis and environs without attracting attention. But then, I evidently lack the creative thinking you see in This Modern World.Dante, way back when, reserved the lowest circles for fraud, if you go in for that kind of literary flourish.A prosecutor called it "The shame of Minnesota." But look at it this way. They didn't get away with it.MPR News: 'In the overall fraud case, 70 people including Bock and Said were charged. A little more than half have pleaded guilty. The trial of Bock and Said was the second to follow the sprawling investigation by the FBI, IRS, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service into fraud in the nutrition programs.'A separate federal jury in June convicted five of seven defendants at a trial that was rocked by allegations of attempted jury bribery.'"The Feeding Our Future case has come to symbolize the problem of fraud in our state,” [lead prosecutor Joe] Thompson said Wednesday. “It has become the shame of Minnesota. Hopefully today’s verdict will help turn the page on this awful chapter in our state’s history.”' <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/19/feeding-our-future-head-aimee-bock-convicted-on-all-fraud-charges" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/19/feeding-our-future-head-aimee-bock-convicted-on-all-fraud-charges</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minnesota</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fleece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fleece</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID</a>

The Japan TimesHino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota, pleaded guilty over a multiyear emissions fraud scheme in the United States and must pay $1.6 billion in penalties, the U.S. Justice Department said. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/20/companies/hino-emissions-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/20/companies/hino-emissions-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#companies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hino</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carmakers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manufacturing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#us</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emissions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toyota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toyota</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/GoogleMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoogleMaps</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/scams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scams</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/SmallBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallBusiness</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/lawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawsuits</a> 'Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud.The lawsuit, announced Wednesday, claims a man working within a wider network, created and sold fake business profiles on Google Maps. '<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-maps-fake-listings-lawsuit-scams/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-maps-fake-listings-lawsuit-scams/</a>

CBC CanadaHow con artists are using AI voice cloning to upgrade the grandparent scam<a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#family</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-ai-voice-scam-1.7486437?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-ai-voice-scam-1.7486437?cmp=rss</a>

Bruce MacDonaldMPR News: A federal jury in Minneapolis Wednesday convicted Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock and former restaurant owner Salim Said on charges of wire fraud and bribery in a trial that followed a lengthy investigation into an alleged scheme to fleece taxpayers out of $250 million by exploiting government child nutrition programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel ordered Bock and Said jailed and did not set a date for sentencing. "The fraud scheme was based on deception,” and the pair could use similar deception to flee now that they're facing "a significant sentence,” Brasel said.Bock cried as United States marshals handcuffed her and took her and Said into custody. <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/19/feeding-our-future-head-aimee-bock-convicted-on-all-fraud-charges" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/19/feeding-our-future-head-aimee-bock-convicted-on-all-fraud-charges</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minnesota</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a>

Frankie ✅People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes <a href="https://www.404media.co/people-are-using-ai-to-create-influencers-with-down-syndrome-who-sell-nudes/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/people-are-using-ai-to-create-influencers-with-down-syndrome-who-sell-nudes/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a>

Nonilex…according to previously unreported emails obtained by ProPublica, a top lawyer at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> warned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin officials that the performance-related language in his agency’s termination letter was “a false statement” that amounted to “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a>” if the agency kept the language in the letter.The emails reveal that in the hours before the IRS sent out its Feb. 20 termination letter [to nearly 7k employees], a fierce dispute played out at the agency’s highest levels.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

NonilexEmails Reveal Top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> Lawyer Warned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Firings Were a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> on the CourtsThe Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassFiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassFiring</a> of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such performance assessment.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PowerOfThePurse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerOfThePurse</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalAgencies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judiciary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalCrisis</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"Why do this? The alleged justification is to combat fraud. But... fraudulent benefit claims are not, in fact, a serious problem.So what the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> is going on here? This plan would save some money, not by eliminating <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a>, but by effectively cutting off aid to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americans</a> who are legally entitled to that aid, & specifically those who need it most. But I don’t think the savings are the point." <a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/smears-sadism-and-social-security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/smears-sadism-and-social-security</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Kim PeralesTrump admin lawyers insist that the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IRS</a> & other fed agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations. A top lawyer at the IRS warned admin officials *performance-related lang in his agency’s term letter was “a false statement” that amounted to🚨“<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a>” if the agency kept the lang in the letter.J Rillotta, a snr IRS ATTY: “no one” at the IRS had taken into acct the perf of the prob wkrs set to be fired.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"In a follow-up email, he said he was “pleading with you to remove the clause,” adding: “It is not an immaterial false statement, because it is designed to improve the govt’s posture in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#litigation</a> (to the detriment of the employees that we are terminating today).”Because it was not true, he wrote, “That renders it, as I see it, an anticipatory <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a> on tribunals of jurisdiction over these employment actions.” - <a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ProPublica</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> appears to have completely eschewed the existing processes for actually rooting out waste, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fraud</a>, and abuse.“An <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/audit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audit</a> that follows Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)... That is the gold standard for how you audit the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a>.”There are generally five phases of a GAGAS audit, the auditors tell WIRED: planning, evidence gathering, evaluation, reporting, & follow up." <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>

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