The five members of the Federal Communications Commission were told to stay quiet about an investigation into whether a California cell phone company had defrauded the federal Lifeline, or "Obamaphone" program, out of millions of dollars until the federal agency could announce its plans to expand the program, one of the commissioners said Monday.
"I think it's an outrage, not just as a commissioner but as a citizen for this program to be administered the way it has been, overlooking the fraud and expanding it even further," Commissioner Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the group, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
"I'm hoping that shining a light on their operations will encourage and the American people to take a closer look at this program," he continued. "There's a lot of fraud that's basically under wraps and that needs to come out into the open. This is only the tip of the iceberg, I expect."
Last week, the FCC released a Notice of Apparent Liability that accused cell phone provider Total Call Mobile, which provides the service in 19 states, of enrolling tens of thousands of duplicate accounts and collecting an estimated $9.7 million in subsidies from the Universal Service Fund since 2014, reports The Washington Free Beacon.
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4 comments:
Look anything the government engages in today is crooked and wasteful. Its built into the system. I wanna know Where is my cut? When do i get a break. I have bills and have to work
Look for the Hildabeast phone next.
I met people that had several of these phones. When minutes ran out on one they would go to the other. they, of course were welfare recipients and thought it was funny. they felt so entitled that they justified ripping off the system because getting free food, housing and utilities wasn't enough.
And this kind of fraud is causing billions of dollars to be wasted in DC and Hillary wants to provide more, so she says. This is why Trump is appealing to the working crowd.
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