[grundle]

I don’t see any evidence that they lied on the forms. They were supposed to get paid to hire people to do nothing.

[Liz]

Tax dollars are not handed out with a casual---"here do what you want with it."

Tax dollars are allocated for a specific purpose by law---hypothetically, the contractor may have taken tax dollars for one purpose, and used them for another purpose.

Contractors are required to attest to the use of the tax dollars to the grantor agency--- so if they falsified documents WRT use of tax dollars, that IS fraud.