“Elon and his all-male team lie about Social Security like other people chew gum,” said one former head of the agency. Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, was berated anew Friday after insidiously tarring millions of Social Security recipients as “fraudsters”—a tactic critics called part of an orchestrated […]
One group noted who would actually complain: “Someone who depends on Social Security to buy groceries. Someone who depends on Social Security to pay rent. Someone who depends on Social Security to survive.” As U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary leader of the Social Security Administration threatened to shut down the agency over an unfavorable court […]
“They are laying the groundwork for denying benefits to anyone they want to punish or deem unworthy—or indeed, any one of us,” said the president of Social Security Works. U.S. President Donald Trump launched his latest threat against Social Security on Tuesday under the guise of combating fraud, floating the possibility of stripping benefits from “millions of […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment last week charging an Alabama man with wire fraud and tax evasion after he allegedly defrauded a local Anchorage business while serving as their general manager. According to court documents, in 2008, James Wohlers, 56, of Deatsville, Alabama, was hired by GBR Equipment/Oilfield […]