The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Agency for International Development, according to records reviewed by CBS News.
The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Agency for International Development , according to records reviewed by CBS News. "What I've found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds.
Cutler said she has viewed over 50,000 documents, and that the U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for possible medical supplies, equipment, travel and salaries. Sources familiar with the grant records did not dispute CBS News' reporting. A spokesperson for USAID declined to comment. A USAID inspector general spokesperson declined to comment"on the existence of a specific open investigation." The press office for NIH did not respond to CBS News' questions.
Sources told CBS News the investigation of possible double-billing could take at least six months to conclude. "I think there's 1.1 million reasons that American taxpayers should care," he said."You'll have a plane crashes. We want to find out why the plane crashes. We go to any lengths to do that. And the hope is we don't have another plane crash for the same reason.
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