The federal government just took a dramatic step in its war on fraud—and in the process, it may have opened a Pandora’s box to some scrupulous people . Under a new Treasury initiative, whistleblowers can now collect a whopping 10% to 30% of the penalties associated with successful enforcement actions involving fraud, money laundering, and abuse of government health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. So, I guess that you can now say that Crime Pays, but not for the criminal, but for others. On paper, it sounds like common sense: go after criminals, recover taxpayer money, reward those who help expose wrongdoing. But strip away the press-release polish, and you’re left with something far more volatile—a system that literally pays people to inform on others.
And that’s where things start to get dangerous, and here’s the thing that no one wants to talk about! Heres where it gets tricky this policy doesn’t just punish crime. It encourages people to do it through bonuses or other financial reasons. If someone knows about fraud and stands to gain a massive payout by reporting it, then what’s stopping them from staying quiet just long enough to build a bigger case (and a bigger payday)? When information becomes profitably, morality winds up taking a back seat to profit.
Even worse, this creates a perverse ecosystem where people may go looking for wrongdoing, inserting themselves into questionable situations just to cash in later. That’s not justice—that’s opportunism dressed up as just plain civic duty.. Snitching on organized crime has always been dangerous. Now the government is effectively putting a price tag on that risk and hoping people decide that it’s worth it. Now, Programs like this don’t just target criminals they change it’s meaning to how ordinary people see each other it makes Coworkers becoming into potential informants. Even friends and family start to look at snitching like opportunities.
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Haven't you previously predicted that Xi Jinping's days as president of China were numbered?
The federal government just took a dramatic step in its war on fraud—and in the process, it may have opened a Pandora’s box to some scrupulous people . Under a new Treasury initiative, whistleblowers can now collect a whopping 10% to 30% of the penalties associated with successful enforcement actions involving fraud, money laundering, and abuse of government health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. So, I guess that you can now say that Crime Pays, but not for the criminal, but for others.
On paper, it sounds like common sense: go after criminals, recover taxpayer money, reward those who help expose wrongdoing. But strip away the press-release polish, and you’re left with something far more volatile—a system that literally pays people to inform on others.
And that’s where things start to get dangerous, and here’s the thing that no one wants to talk about! Heres where it gets tricky this policy doesn’t just punish crime. It encourages people to do it through bonuses or other financial reasons. If someone knows about fraud and stands to gain a massive payout by reporting it, then what’s stopping them from staying quiet just long enough to build a bigger case (and a bigger payday)? When information becomes profitably, morality winds up taking a back seat to profit.
Even worse, this creates a perverse ecosystem where people may go looking for wrongdoing, inserting themselves into questionable situations just to cash in later. That’s not justice—that’s opportunism dressed up as just plain civic duty..
Snitching on organized crime has always been dangerous. Now the government is effectively putting a price tag on that risk and hoping people decide that it’s worth it.
Now, Programs like this don’t just target criminals they change it’s meaning to how ordinary people see each other it makes Coworkers becoming into potential informants. Even friends and family start to look at snitching like opportunities.
He only has until the 24th Congress meets in Nov. of '27...
It looks like Wen will be replacing him after then as Chairman.
He's a bit long in the tooth, though... so he will not be in power for long (born in '42).
Xi is younger, born in '52.
...they don't call them the "Party Elders" for no reason.
With the criminal malignant narcissist as presnit the government US fraud.
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