...to the U.S. Treasury in fraudulent loans issued under pandemic relief programs, including the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, and uncovered over $200 billion in potential fraud within these pandemic relief programs, he was fired.

Now the usual suspects here will howl to the moon that president Musk is going to someday some how uncover billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse, but the Trump nominated Inspector General of the U.S. Small Business Administration -- and confirmed by unanimous consent of the Senate on April 26, 2018 -- was already doing so... and he was fired.

Mike Ware had been in the Inspector General community for his entire adult life, starting in 1990 and serving under U.S. presidents from both political parties. He received the 2023 Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year Award, served as the Audit Chair for the CIGIE for 6 years and the Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s audit subcommittee for 5 years. He also served as the Chairman Emeritus of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ Board of Regents.

Why in the Wide World of Sports would anyone fire an IG who was that successful at his job?

Why fire someone who uncovered $40 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse that went directly back to the U.S. Treasury and was in a position to return billions more, up to another $200 billion?

Maybe it was because that waste, fraud, and abuse took place during the first Trump adminnistration.

As Pete Buttigieg said: "If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them."

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