Two witnesses who testified at a House committee hearing Wednesday said a culture that allows for the widespread defrauding of government programs ultimately causes working people who play by the rules to pay higher taxes.
Republican Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball and Dr. OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF), were among the four total witnesses who testified at a hearing on “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States,” which the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Operations held Wednesday.
Ball and Oleka explained their experience combating such fraud — particularly in their shared home state of Kentucky — and why the issue should concern all taxpaying Americans, in interviews with the DCNF conducted after the hearing.
“When you have a culture that defers to fraud and allows it to stand, then you spend more money,” Oleka said as part of his testimony
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