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The U.S. Secret Service reports that at least $100 billion was stolen from federal funds aimed to help people who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 and associated economic shutdowns and businesses that suffered because of the pandemic. That's about 3 percent of the money distributed under those programs, and it doesn't include cases being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.