the first $1.05 billion under pigford. he came back. he among others with stacks of copies of documents, sick at heart. he said at least 75% are fraudulent. and so we can t say that there s no fraud here. here s what we know. anderson, let me jump in here. judge friedman put in his decision, he wrote 40 acres and a mule in his decision. i m not making that up for reparations, that s the code words for reparations. and he also said i ve read that decision, and he just sir, i ve read that decision and he just used that in a recitation about the history of the interaction between african-americans and the u.s. government and the usda. he wasn t equating 40 acres and a mule to this program. let me say, anderson, he laments that all the wrongs in one civil rights case. now he s got a second one coming. i want dr. boyd to be able to respond. let me talk here. the farmers deserve this restitution. it s long, long, long, long
fraudulent. here s what he said monday night about a federal claims processor he talked to. one of those individuals and i ve had anecdotes from several, but one of those individuals felt the burden of the corruption and the fraudulent claims that were coming forward in front of him, that he copied a box of applications. a literal box of applications, which i m really sure that would not have been very constructive to him maintaining his job with the usda. but it bothered his conscience so much and when he came back to iowa he wanted to make it a point to make sure that i knew that these applications that he was dealing with, were, he believed, a minimum of 75% fraudulent. 75% fraudulent. if you apply that to the $1.05 billion in claims that were paid out, if he s right in that number, $750 million were wasted
but one of those individuals felt the burden of the corruption and the fraudulent claims that were coming forward in front of him, that he copied a box of applications. a literal box of applications, which i m really sure that would not have been very constructive to him maintaining his job with the usda. but it bothered his conscience so much and when he came back to iowa he wanted to make it a point to make sure that i knew that these applications that he was dealing with, were, he believed, a minimum of 75% fraudulent. 75% fraudulent. if you apply that to the $1.05 billion in claims that were paid out, if he s right in that number, $750 million were wasted paying people that didn t have it coming. $750 million out of $1 billion wasted according to the congressman. if true, it s a shocking amount
one of those individuals and i ve had anecdotes from several, but one of those individuals felt the burden of the corruption and the fraudulent claims that were coming forward in front of him, that he copied a box of applications. a literal box of applications, which i m really sure that would not have been very constructive to him maintaining his job with the usda. but it bothered his conscience so much and when he came back to iowa he wanted to make it a point to make sure that i knew that these applications that he was dealing with, were, he believed, a minimum of 75% fraudulent. 75% fraudulent. if you apply that to the $1.05 billion in claims that were paid out, if he s right in that number, $750 million were wasted paying people that didn t have it coming.
about. this case is not about fraud, this case is about bringing justice and equality and fairness to a group of people who deserve it. and it s long, long overdue justice. it is shocking when you start to look into what happened in the usda. they were literally throwing out discrimination claims, just dumping them in the garbage in some cases. you claim 75% of the claims now being made in this program by african-american farmers have been fraudulent. you say an unnamed person working for the usda gave you that estimate. usda says that percentage is complete nonsense. the fbi investigated, found only three cases of fraud. where s the proof of this 75% claim you make? well, and john boyd says there s no fraud. the fbi or the usda has reported that the fbi came up with three cases that they prosecuted. now, what is a level of fraud here? i ve said that i had a district director who was deployed to washington, d.c., to help administer the distribution of the first $1.05 billion under