It’s fraud if the stated allocation is a cover up for something else. Or even just overpaying on line item A because funding for line item B from the same company is approved at a level lower than the people buying line item B were hoping for.
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Kind of like the idea that care for veterans especially veterans wounded in war isn’t counted as defense spending.
Wasting your breath, people will excuse the type similar to what they would use or are benefiting from elsewhere or wish to use in future...
Article 1 section 9 clause 7 of the US Constitution. Lying about what the money is used for in the books is defrauding the taxpayers.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/
