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ABSCAM — Part 8
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do with the cards, they're doing,” ™ore than 1,000 blank cards lying Before they
said one investigator. “A Social Se-
curity card is the key to the king-
dom. To get any berefit, you need
a number.”
The government already has
won convictions of scores of people
caught in a nationwide probe,
dubbed “Project Baltimore” be-
cause the Social Security Adminis-
tration headquarters is there.
However, officials at the inspec-
tor general's office for the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices say most card cheaters go
undetected because of lax proce.
dures,
One source said the computer
System's ability to check abuses is
so weak that investigators cannot
put a Social Security number in
and find out who cr how many
people use it.
Another federal investigator,
. noting the Social Security Adminis-
! tration has only 120 investigators
: nationwide, asked: “Who's going to
catch you?”
Health and Human Services Sec-
retary Richard Schweiker declared
in May all blank Social Security
The right car _
at the right price
Transmission. Suspension.
Brakes. News Classified.
Put them all together and
you have four different, but
essential, car-related items.
The first three are obvious.
The fourth, however, could be,
the most important. News
Classified has the largest se-
lection of automobiles in
Northern California. Your key
to finding the right car for the
right price.
News Classified is also your
avenue to selling cars. If you
have an autoniobile, truck or
on the floor in an unlocked area of
a Social Security field office.
An HHS spokesman said, “They
are under stricter lock and key
measures now,” but several agen-
cy officials said privately the secu-
rity problem still exists.
Investigators have found evi-
dence of careless supervision of
those who distribute cards, loose
Procedures for validating applica-
tions and little effort to trace indi-
viduals fraudulently obtaining
cards.
An inspector general’s audit in
New York and Washington last
year found nearly half the cards in
those cities were issued to aliens.
About 20 percent of those were
given to incorrectly coded individ.
uals. Another 20 percent went to
aliens not authorized to receive
work-related numbers.
An investigator for the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service
complained that all Social Security
cards look. identical, although
“some are issued to aliens who
don't have permission to work.”
He said cards are often issued to
aliens who say they need them to
get insurance or put money in a
2 pb x But they use the card to get
a jol
“Anyone can go down to Tijuana
and buy any number of Social Se-
curity cards now,” said another
INS official.
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