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Government has released roughly $3.5 trillion in COVID-19 relief money since the pandemic started in early 2020

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Nearly $100 billion has been stolen from pandemic relief funds, according to the Secret Service.

The stolen money was diverted from the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and a third program created to issue unemployment assistance funds, the agency said Tuesday, according to CNBC.

Over $2.3 billion has so far been recovered, and roughly 100 suspects, from individuals to groups, have been arrested.

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