Comer Oversight Panel to Focus 1st Hearing on Fraud, Waste in COVID Relief Programs

Comer Oversight Panel to Focus 1st Hearing on Fraud, Waste in COVID Relief Programs
Ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) speaks at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
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Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspected waste, fraud, and abuse in federal COVID-19 pandemic relief programs will be the focus of the first hearing convened by House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in the 118th Congress.

Reports of hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits being paid to convicted murderers such as Scott Petersen, as well as thousands of other California prison inmates, including 144 on Death Row, are likely to be raised during the hearing.

Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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