(at a time when we have failed finance company owners sitting back..laughing…their vaults full of other peoples’ cash…
…getting away with it/scott-free….
…and coming from a newspaper that has spent most of the last decade fawning over these scumbags….
..on their social/business/editorial-pages…
…(and one that was so derelict in its’ watchdog duties…)
…this one has my jaw dropping…
..’cos here is a campaign the herald can really get its’ teeth into…
…the get/demonise/marginalise beneficiaries/the poor……
..so we have a (front-page no less) bad-beneficiary-story ..(shock horror..!..implying ‘stealing from the dead’..)
…about 15 people….
…and a total fraud-loss..$1.6 mill….gee..!..bad..!..but we should have been so lucky if those financial company scumbags had only taken such chump-change..eh..?
this is a nadir for the herald….and a yellow-journalism stake in the sand…)
the front fucken page..?…the fucken headline…?
..w.t.f. were you thinking…?
…aren’t you meant to be our ‘quality’-rag/broadsheet…?
…not just a yellow-tabloid..?
(here is the ‘story’…)
“…Benefit fraudsters have stolen $1.6 million from taxpayers by claiming the pensions of dead family members.
Widows, children and grandchildren illegally claimed an average of $105,000 each by forging signatures on superannuation forms to show their dead relative was alive.
In some cases, the illegal pension payments went on for 15 years.
The long-running rorts were discovered last year after the Ministry of Social Development started a nationwide “data-mining” investigation into 250,000 deaths since 1984.
Fifteen people have since pleaded guilty to criminal charges…”
(see what i mean…?…maybe page eight…?….but the fucken headline….?…front page…?
…that was the biggest thing happening locally/internationally…in the last 24 hrs…?
..f.f.s…!
…nothing could make your agenda clearer….eh..?..)…
go to source/story>>>Fraudsters rob pensions of the dead – National – NZ Herald News
