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Who would've thought that offering "loans" with no oversight, then mysteriously "forgiving" those loans, with no audit, would result in an enormous volume of theft? Almost like the theft was the intended goal...
Who knew that a program implemented by Trump would be fraught with so much fraud?
You mean the one where Trump removed the anti-fraud enforcement part of the bill first?
And put himself in charge of oversight? The man who’s name is synonymous with fraud…
and then when its investigated and identified under biden the gop acts like its bidens fault because finding out was under his administration. Makes me think of trump being mad at all the covid testing and data collection.
“Now that I’ve defrauded the government I can buy what I always wanted, that Pokémon card I have had my eye on”
The chasm in sentencing is beyond understanding ... a brown man steals $85k and gets 3 years while a white doctor steals $5.5 million and gets 8 years. How does that make any sense at all?
I wonder what the chances are that private Florida island will be washed away by a hurricane within the next nine years
Eh. More than likely he won't have the money to develop it.
How do you get electricity out there? Plumbing?
Who cuts down those trees?
It could be nice for a little shack, but that's about it.
Solar and generator. Well, spring, or RO plant, and leach field.
There are plenty of companies who do this kind of work. Access is either by water or helicopter.
It's gonna be hard to arrange those services from prison, when the guy's broke
Guy’s gotta have a hobby.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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