The new Covid fraud prosecutor says his goal is to prosecute those who illegally obtained money from pandemic relief benefits.
In an interview with NBC News, Chambers said his goal is to prosecute those who illegally obtained money from pandemic relief benefits including the Paycheck Protection Program and unemployment insurance funds to discourage such behavior in the future and try to get as much money back as possible.
Last fall, a federal judge sentenced a California man, Richard Ayvazyan, to 17 years in prison for leading a fraud ring that stole $18 million in Covid-19 relief loans intended for small businesses — a scheme the judge called “horrific, calculated and callous.” Chambers said he plans to set up strike forces, consisting of analysts, agents, and prosecutors, to sort through huge amounts of data supplied by state unemployment offices. “The data that we are still collecting from the states is the key to so much of the evidence of fraud,” he said.
Chambers is an experienced federal prosecutor. He has also worked for private law firms and as a certified public accountant, a background that he said “might give a little edge in the current job.”
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