Make sure you are sitting down for this one…
Getty Images from Google
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1.1 million incarcerated criminals were given checks for COVID stimulus money as a result of Joe Biden’s stimulus bill, with the final total amounting to about $1.3 billion.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, this failure was revealed in new internal data provided by the IRS. Of the 1.1 million criminals who were given money under the provisions of the “American Rescue Plan,” about 163,000 who received stimulus checks are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, meaning they will never even get to retrieve and use such funds in the first place.
Life sentences without parole are most often given to those who are convicted of either murder or rape. Responding to criticism regarding this particular fact, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said that the agency does not yet know how many of these lifelong prisoners are also on Death Row.
Bacon, as well as Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), had previously warned that Biden’s stimulus bill, which cost nearly $2 trillion in total, did not have oversight measures in place to avoid such discrepancies, unlike the first two bills passed by President Donald Trump. After Biden’s bill was signed into law, a $1,400 stimulus check was sent to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber, who is still in prison and is facing the death penalty.
In addition to payments to criminals, the bill also led to at least $80 billion being awarded to false businesses, with former U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider calling it “the biggest fraud in a generation.”