How Does the Investigation Begin?

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The investigation into the woman in Westchester begins with tips and leads. The banks do more due diligence than the government, she says. "What we heard was just that there are so many cases like this," CNN's Nina dos Santos writes.

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupted business in the US, the government sent billions of dollars to people and businesses that were affected. That led to an epidemic of financial scams.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.

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