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These are Crimes Against Humanity! The rule of law is dead!
Here's a 'dead' person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say
“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week.
I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill.
Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant.
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam.
“We recently received notification of LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s passing,” it began. “We offer our sincerest condolences …”
At first she figured it was a scam — her husband, after all, was sitting right there. But then the bank got to the point.
“We know this is a difficult time, and we’re here to help,” the bank wrote. “We received a request from Social Security Administration to return benefits paid to LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account after their passing.”
“There’s nothing you need to do — we’ve deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON’s account.”
more at the link:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
Audit: Maryland Dept. of Health unable to provide documentation it received $1.4B in owed federal funding
The Maryland Department of Health is unable to document whether it received $1.4 billion due from the federal government, according to an audit of the agency released Tuesday that revealed weaknesses in its procedures for monitoring how funds are received and spent.
If the department isn’t able to recover that money, the state may be on the hook for it, said Tuesday’s report, which was released by the Office of Legislative Audits — a subsidiary of the Maryland General Assembly’s Department of Legislative Services.
According to a statewide review of budget closeout transactions for fiscal year 2022 released by the audit office in January, the Department of Health was unable to account for approximately $3.5 billion in federal revenue.
Tuesday’s audit found that $2.1 billion had been accounted for by April of this year, but not the $1.4 billion.
The discrepancy came about because, to balance its ledgers, the state agency was counting federal money that it had yet to receive. It’s unclear whether the department did not submit requests for reimbursement or if it did not track the requests it submitted.
“This audit report is the state’s worst nightmare when it comes to the mismanagement … of the Maryland Department of Health under the prior administration,” said Sen. Clarence Lam, a Democrat representing Anne Arundel and Howard counties. “I’ve been the chair of the Joint Audits Committee for four years now and this is the worst audit I’ve ever seen, by far.”
https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-maryland-department-of-health-audit-20231024-b26nxi37gjejbahxyxoukz26pi-story.html
Dirty Larry Hogan
Ten oriole chicks recently hatched at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
and we need your help naming them!
The Zoo is partnering with the Governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, to name the hatchlings, which represent two different species of oriole: the Baltimore oriole and the orchard oriole. After the public decides on the names of the seven orchard oriole chicks, the Zoo will reveal the winning names as well as the names the Governor has chosen for the three Baltimore oriole chicks.
Hatched at the Zoo’s newly reopened Bird House, these oriole chicks represent a major conservation win. This marks the first time orchard orioles have ever successfully bred in human care.
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/oriolevote
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