vast undercount. when we looked at this about a year ago, and we were talking to private companies, like ibm and lexus nexus, that have contacts with the state that actually run the unemployment programs, the highest estimate that we heard with 400 billion dollars. now some people criticize that has to high. but let s say it s 200 billion. it is an enormous sum of money just for comparison, so people understand, the annual budget of the department of education of the united states government is 68 billion dollars. so, this is an incredible sum of money. and what we found was that about half of the unemployment fraud was carried out by foreign criminal groups. they just prayed on this program because they realized that nobody was checking. all you needed was a fake identity of an american, a social security number, a drivers license, which is easily obtainable on the dark web and nigerian criminal gangs, chinese hackers, russian fraudsters, they just started bombarding these antiqua
since 7 am. i beg duke to come on tonight because this is so important. i fear i am going to be shouting during this segment because it is just so upsetting. walk us through this huge scandal about unemployment fraud. who are these people selling the money? how did they do it? so the worst news about this, stephanie, is that this 46 billion dollar estimate that came out today from the labor department ig is probably a vast undercount. when we looked at this about a year ago, and we were talking to private companies, like ibm and lexus nexus, that have contacts with the state that actually run the unemployment programs, the highest estimate that we heard with 400 billion dollars. now some people criticize that has to high. but let s say it s 200 billion. it is an enormous sum of money just for comparison, so people understand, the annual budget of the department of education of the united states government is 68 billion dollars. so, this is an incredible sum of money. and what we fo
prompter and dan: it is not he never reads prompter either. brian you are the king of the weird toss to jillian now carley those are never in prompter you make that up on the spot. you [laughter] you know it. i m trying to offer you advice and you attack me this is unbelievable but to your topic i m doing radio show you re doing it right after and we watch vote come in. and you know, that cbo came the with their sceern cbo was working recipe for the cbo outscore and said they don t know how to figure out math when it comes to how much money we re going to get once we put the irs on steroids and they re going after every american because we have 86 dollars to go after irs to get unpaid taxes from horrible rich people so therefore when we say 368 billion dollars it is going to cost us $368 billion that s cbo
prompter and dan: it is not he never reads prompter either. brian you are the king of the weird toss to jillian now carley those are never in prompter you make that up on the spot. you [laughter] you know it. i m trying to offer you advice and you attack me this is unbelievable but to your topic i m doing radio show you re doing it right after and we watch vote come in. and you know, that cbo came the with their sceern cbo was working recipe for the cbo outscore and said they don t know how to figure out math when it comes to how much money we re going to get once we put the irs on steroids and they re going after every american because we have 86 dollars to go after irs to get unpaid taxes from horrible rich people so therefore when we say 368 billion dollars it is going to
prompter and dan: it is not he never reads prompter either. brian you are the king of the weird toss to jillian now carley those are never in prompter you make that up on the spot. you [laughter] you know it. i m trying to offer you advice and you attack me this is unbelievable but to your topic i m doing radio show you re doing it right after and we watch vote come in. and you know, that cbo came the with their sceern cbo was working recipe for the cbo outscore and said they don t know how to figure out math when it comes to how much money we re going to get once we put the irs on steroids and they re going after every american because we have 86 dollars to go after irs to get unpaid taxes from horrible rich people so therefore when we say 368 billion dollars it is going to