Secret Service fraud recovery official on pandemic stimulus: 'Fast money equals fast crime'

Updated: December 11, 2024 - 5:29pm

"I've never seen anything of this magnitude," said National Pandemic Fraud Recovery Coordinator Roy Dotson, who has 30 years experience in law enforcement, during a discussion on combating fraud organized by the Bethesda Chapter of AFCEA. "It was an online application so pretty simple. You could look up whatever information you wanted or use other people's identification, PII [Personal Identifiable Information], and put that in and the money just flowed to whatever accounts you wanted it to."