State officials find Baker administration mistakenly used $2.5B in federal pandemic-era relief funds

Heads are spinning Friday after a yearly audit found officials mistakenly used $2.5 billion in federal pandemic-era relief funds to pay off unemployment benefits, a costly figure that was supposed to be covered by Massachusetts, not the feds.

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