And WRT Elon Musk, the Democratic Party scum does indeed rise to the top…

https://instapundit.com/714231/
Key Graf:
‘Just back from George Clooney’s “Good Night and Good Luck,” Broadway play, which is a story about the importance of trust & honesty in news. The play ends with @elonmusk on screen allegedly giving a Nazi salute.…’

+ Bonus (merely more election integrity, Democratic-Party style)…
“…Arizona to begin removing as many as 50K noncitizens from voter rolls following lawsuit”—-
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-arizona-begin-removing-many-50k-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls-following-lawsuit

While it would be nice to somehow make those states pay, there’s already too much Federal control and especially influence, based on Fed cash. Still, using that as leverage to get states to be more responsible seems better than just continuing to write more checks.

These frauds are each small or medium crimes, and J Justice demands some punishment. To protect Rule of Law.

One option states can use to mitigate negative impacts on ID theft victims is to establish a pseudo claim record and transfer all claim information regarding the imposter’s claim to the pseudo claim once the state makes a fraud determination. This removes the fraudulent activity from the victim’s SSN, should the victim need to file for unemployment benefits in the future. Additionally, this preserves data from the fraudulent activity to be used for future analytics.

It says nothing in the there about putting obviously fake birth years into the pseudo-claim. It certainly does not say such claims should have been paid. There are many ways to tag such things in databases and you don’t have to make fake birth years.

And that guidance was only in cases for cases of identity theft, which would not be all the fraud, of course.

The real story that the NYT is trying to distract from, is that it was up to states to administer the program, and quite a few states did not want to avoid paying fraudulent claims. Because that would be tiresome and costly work by state employees, might embarrass connected people and their clients, expose how much illegal immigrants and criminals are costing, and it’s not the state’s money.

“We knew it all the time and paid it anyway, and didn’t say anything until Musk started talking about it” is not an excuse that can be expected to go over well with normal people.

The level of fraud, and, seemingly, the ease with which it is committed and the probability that such fraud is enabled by a particular flavor, and behavior, of government, would seem the perfect reason for terminating all federal aid and payments, down to the last nickel, pending the correction of the fraud and the instituting of solid preventive measures.

CA, NY and MA, or any state for that matter, should be able to freely squander their taxpayers’ money in any quantity and manner they choose – it’s a self-inflcted wound for whomever has chosen to live there – but once they reach outside their borders into federal taxpayers’ pockets, the rest of us should have a say in the matter. Not that fraud, of any degree or amount, should be tolerated in any of the states, but that such a large percentage occurs in only 3 jurisdictions makes, or should make, those three an easy target for reform.

And I say “NO.”

Fortunately, the current federal administration, so far, agrees with people like me. Whether they – and I have very severe doubts about Congress’ integrity on such matters – agree enough to take action, I await the tally.

No surprise from this New England native who long ago returned to my ancestral home of Texas. My sister’s car got stolen. The assumption was that it ended up in a Lynn chop shop. Lynn was next to Saugus MA, where my sister then lived.

My sister-in-law is a MA native. Her brother got involved, I am told, in some construction fraud involving the Ted Williams tunnel. He paid for it, I am told.

Speaking of Lynn: Lynn, Lynn, city of sin.

Lynn, Lynn the city of sin
You never come out, the way you came in
You ask for water, but they give you gin
The girls say no, yet they always give in
If your not bad, they won’t let you in
It’s the damndest city I’ve ever lived in
Lynn, Lynn the city of sin
You never come out, the way you came in.

This sort of thing is why the avalanche of false and duplicate Social Security numbers is such a big problem. With a number, illegals or fraudsters can receive all sorts of government subsidies and payments to which they are not entitled.