Hidden Chinese labs, crumbling bridges & stolen SNAP benefits | Scripps News Investigates
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- This week, Scripps News investigates a Chinese bio-lab hidden in rural America, crumbling bridges across the country in need of maintenance and the secret theft of tens of millions of dollars in benefits from low-income Americans.
A hidden Chinese bio-lab on American soil: Shock after shock: that's what one California code enforcement officer in California said she felt when she came across a secret Chinese bio-lab in the heart of San Joaquin Valley. Her discovery launched more than a dozen local, state and federal investigations, and captured the attention of Congress. Was it an American dream gone awry, or a plot to exploit Americans?
Tracking America's crumbling bridges: Billions of federal tax dollars are going toward fixing America's crumbling bridges. But a Scripps News investigation finds that won't be nearly enough to help thousands that are corroded, cracked or at risk of being shut down for safety.
Fixing bridges has been a centerpiece of President Biden's administration. In the first three years of his presidency, federal funds have helped pay for thousands of bridge repairs and replacements nationwide. But some 14,000 bridges identified in a Scripps News analysis have been rated in poor condition for at least a decade - and experts say the number isn't going to go down.
Families see their SNAP benefits stolen: A federal program helping millions of Americans feed their families is being targeted by thieves. Even before beneficiaries have a chance to buy their groceries, their benefits are being stolen. More than 20 million low-income households in America get money from the government loaded onto special debit cards through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But a Scripps investigation has showed these benefits are being stolen from families who use SNAP across the country. Thefts have deprived families of needed food and cost American taxpayers more than $70 million.
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They're trying to turn America genderless
😮 looks like it's time to break out the water surfboards and get some facts from these fools
What the f is Biden going to do about this 🇺🇸☠️💯
@@ArcadeOfKaosprobably send more money to Ukraine! FJB
@@ArcadeOfKaos 🩸MÉXICO🩸 & CHINA 🩸THREATENS 🩸AMERICA 🇺🇸 ask Jesus Christ to forgive you, for before we all die in Armageddon
The US gov has money for everyone but American citizens
Yes, OUR money !
China would never let a team of US citizens do this kind of thing in their country. So why is this happening in our own United States Nation.
"The "Communist " Chinese"Party"...view "America"as a "sucker" which it "lends" itself" to that 'train"of thought..and in "many" cases"...."rightfully so"!!
Because the communists in your country wants it to be done. And they are working to establish the regime of China's communism in USA and the whole world, actually.
The citizens of this country will have to take a stand on many levels and fronts and not budge an inch. Not only that itll take proactive measures and now serious actions and losses (of many kinds) to rectify this. Stopping it is not enough. The US people must push forward. They will have to take control from the federal gov and start over at the local then county then state level. US citizens are supposed to make the decisions not some elected person whom is protected and benefits regardless of the outcomes of their decisions. Politicians are set for life either way so why wouldn't they sacrifice the people in order to keep the corporations and elitist groups in power and wealthy
President Xi Jinping is very very happy with favorite son Gavin Newsom who cleared residents out of San Francisco for his boss's special visit last year.
Treason and
But we're giving billions to other countries instead of fixing ours 😂😂
TALK TO SLEEPY JOE LOL
@RUclipsSpeechBanWhy was that? Was they trying to sneak something else into the small print as usual?
VERY TRUE THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US AMERICANS
@RUclipsSpeechBan Simpletons that think like you are why we're in this situation to begin with. You think just listing who voted Yea or Nay on something tells the entire story, with zero context or nuance? How about we talk about the problem with bills being so convoluted, loaded with pork, that the average citizen struggles to comprehend them? How about we talk about how someone in Congress might vote against a bill they agreed with because they disagreed with how its funded? The "team sports" with Team Red and Team Blue are meant to distract the masses; don't fall for it.
We seem to have absolutely no choices in how our hard earned tax dollars are being spent. Why is that and what can we do about it?
I thought the federal government had announced billions in infrastructure work to fix “those bridges”. Where’s the money?
The govs and lawmakers are benefiting. If work gets done, relatives get contracts.
That legislation was only approved a week or so ago, the past Trump administration did nothing and the Republican majority of most of Obama's term would not pass the legislation.
That's a terrifying experience for code inspector, she could have been exposed to some deadly viruses
The lab is a decoy, real Chinese labs are underground US and Chinese military bases. Human experimental bases anything goes. Every one is involved all paid actors.
i know!
😂oh well prolly same ppl who started it 😂
@@Redskywinter204 if I'm caught trying to make a 💥 I would be jailed
They are not mentioning that the California State Health Dept. wanted any news of this find suppressed by all means. What a corrupt attempt by this filthy agency.
Quit sending money to other countries and fix our bridges.
Yeah, the latest budget they just gave 25 million to Egyptian college students in Egypt. Wasn’t that nice of them for our citizens or taxpayers to pay for Egyptian citizens kids to go to college really??
What happened to build back better?
Bridge repairs have been going on for decades what's changed, Democrats money laundering.
Go back to paper food stamps!
They would have e to use cash... the store for change. They don't want us to have cash. Track our money.
All snap benefits is stolen money from the taxpayer end communism! End income taxxes! We will not be subjugated!
Or WORK
My friend mom had those when she would watch us after school until mom got off work at hospital: we ate good, frying up the thick bologna sandwich with Government cheese .. lol 🤣
or don't hand them out to illegal aliens?
What amazes me is,,This cannot be done in China.. Something seriously wrong there.
China is VERY paranoid, especially anything Western.
California will be ground zero for a real bio related outbreak.
Thanks for the well wishes my fellow American 💀
California has been sold to chemical companies by Democrats in California legislature. It's called bribery.
You mean biological attack by the Communist Party of China. 🤦🏿♂️
The 'so-called "Infrastructure bill" did very little for American Infrastructure!
😂 it was just signed into law in 2021. Money is being disbursed, and projects have started or will start soon. It'll take several years, if not more, for results to be seen. The bill is working as planned. Every state in this country received money.
WoW...... Just imagine if our steel mills and companies were still up and running we could definitely be able to build and replace these Bridges a lot easier & cheaper!
Instead of the steel being shipped from overseas!
china being the supplier it could not get much worse its low quality steel also .
I drive a big truck use to haul steel out of gary Indiana (us steel) that steel plant was busy all the time 24/7 now it don't do much or is not not producing anything
I don't know for sure cause I don't haul steel any more
No up keep needed, it's steel! Who's at the helm??
Or now steel manufacturing purchased by Japan. Brilliant move, idiots.
There was a bioweapon warehouse like this in California found not too long ago, looked almost identical. Scary stuff 😱
Its the very same lab.
@@iamshebeeloloindigenousI thought it was near Livermore.
It's the same one it's aired again
OMG, what the heck? This lab news is nuts! Let's not reduce this to a conspiracy theory. We need to get to the bottom of this.
Yet because it's in California, the shitlibs
WILL. turn it into a conspiracy theory -- that's how they keep their evil from getting out.
RUclips is deleting the comments on this thread because they deleted my response to your post.
And apparently RUclips is in on it bc they're erasing any comments that speak the truth....
it happen yrs ago. When it was discovered they didn't say anything about it.
The lab is a decoy, real Chinese labs are underground US and Chinese military bases. Human experimental bases anything goes. Every one is involved all paid actors.
When I was a child, my mother was on SNAPs. We would have starved to death otherwise. My mother ended up becoming a successful taxpayer and productive member as did her children. These recipients need to be able to dispute the SNAP charges! Target needs to eat the loss due to not checking ID.
Snaps is so important I don’t get why it don’t get more funds
It’s most likely an inside job. How else would someone manage to place a skimmer if they didn’t work there? And from what I hear, skimmers are easy to come by if you know where to look.
Someone hacked my EBT card. I live in NY and the money was taken from Chicago. I used it on the Walmart site for food which I have never done before but was very ill and could not shop. That was in December and in January my EBT got stolen. It came from the Walmart site how someone got my info.
@@NotLikeUs869you don’t need to work there look up videos of “scammers place skimmer in atm” or “scammers place skimmer on gas station check out”
Even if they don’t Ik tons of people their mothers stayed abusing drugs but they had food bc of EBT/SNAP so that’s a win that a child didn’t have to starve all the time
First thing is you charge the people that allowed these criminals to buy that property
Some properties were broken into…??
Secret deal. Money talks
What about how close to food that lab was?? Like what if they were trying to poison our food?
They already have poison the food.
It’s crazy how officials act like they didn’t want to look into the lab
I was wondering what had happened to this story it was a long time ago when they found it and the info went silent, now it out and more is being said about it,
Probably afraid it will reveal their involvement
1990's many DOT bridge inspectors were fired, When inspectors were worried about the banks breaking down, cheap bridge materials, and concrete. Gov. Didn't want to build new ones or fix old ones.
It would of been so much cheaper but you know them Boomers, if it wasn't for whatever was kool that month or styling. Remember the 10oclock news had to remind them "DO you know where your kids are?"😂😂
I know an inspector that went to an older warehouse for an inspection and refused to inspect. His Supervisor would later confront him for it. The owner wasn't in the front office so he went to a roll up door in back to inspect inside. There were several Hispanic women in rubber gowns and gloves and with HEPA filter masks on. Nobody could tell him what their PPE was for so he left. Days later everything was gone.
Gus Fring, Inc.
Drugs??
@@yvonneconte3040absolutely
That’s terrifying!
Body farm?
Here in St. Louis MODOT seems to be spending more money on beautification rather than fixing critical infrastructure.
We need to form an independent group that goes all over every vacant and unused warehouses and buildings all over the US to inspect and check that there is no illegal activity within.
So more important to support other nations than our own😢
Best comment and true statement.
All part of their filthyUNplans..all of it. And they are doing MUCH worse too!
If taxt dollars was used for our roads and bridges and not launder out.We would have bridges and road repairs done. Money is for our country not for it to be pocketed for crooks in government.
Amazing how the biolab story was buried so fast; even a lot of independent media didn't pick up on how serious that was. Thank you for not giving up!
Wow great work! Love this kind of journalism we need more of this!
Who rented the warehouse? Who were the people in the biolab when it was raided?
Are all the people that were at the lab in jail?????they should go to prison for life. This is outrageous
No that cost tax payer money send them back to China
Oh WOW 😮 THAT'S UNEXCEPTABLE!!! WE CAN NOT LIVE NEXT TO A NEW WUHAN DIEASE PIT DISASTER
Thank you, I can’t believe people commented on anything else. This lab story is insane WTH ???? My mind is racing, every day I see more highly unacceptable things happening in this country. Something has got to happen. Unfortunately I am too old to be of much help. Someone needs to take the bull by the horns and get going on issues like this and many others. For those who’ve don’t know what I mean, you don’t need to know. 🤔
@ajmentis7379 Yes, it's something so wrong on every level, no matter the purpose or reasoning behind it. And for their level of disregard of our Nations Laws and Rules and for them to Disrespect us this way is beyond unexceptable. They literally almost collapsed all of mankind because of their negligence as a nation & and their government to safe practices for handling extremely dangerous and just dangerous biological Hazardous matter.
The only way to get a point across when you're dealing with something so significant is that the gesture to awaken the other individuals' full attention after all attempts have been made to do it in a respectful and responsible manner, then that gesture must be Extremely Bold either equally or greater then that of the offense.
This is so very disturbing and so very scary the condition of our country yet our government sends hundreds of billions even trillions of dollars over the decades to foreign countries, neglecting America and its infrastructure and its people who work so hard for their money and the government just wastes it😢😢😢😢
I have a relative who had her SNAP benefits stolen two months in a row.
Same. I know a few people with kids that this happened to this month.
During Covid or right there after my friend’s cousin found millions of State assistance from not being able to work. Millions and she had found where it had been paid out to millions of people in Michigan this is only Michigan, for six months or longer. Some of it was at least a year.
@@BeautyWithTiffyThat made no sense
yes it does. read the top comment. good grief. The lady found millions of benefits stolen...
TIME TO VIEW ALL RURAL AREAS NATION WIDE
We have known about the bridges, still not fixed.
Oh my God I’d be worried that they would hire these people that don’t speak English that don’t want to ever speak English. I had water flooding the middle of my apartment come to find out next-door were people from freaking South America no speak English with their little children eight years old to four years old running around in water filled apartment yes they totally flooded the apartment next-door had electrical cords connected to circular saws with no blade guard the drilling holes or sewing holes rather into the walls. That day the manager that was doing the maintenance for this place quit. He was a much older guy past retirement age. He just said I’m finished. It was just too much for him. They had to patch the hole in the wall. And then when there was places not being used they would just unlock the apartment and go in and stay and they still do it. They’re very deviant very sneaky. For months on end in the summer we had trucks coming in here and I was out walking and one of them pulled up in and wanted to give me a nasty looks and I’m like oh hells naw I’m a Veteran you can intimidate me. It’s just ridiculous it’s gotten way out of hand
They do not listen. And when I was working for a store in their fresh cuts I worked with a person from India and a person from China and neither one of them would follow food safe laws. They just flat out refused to Americans were dumb according to them. I really should write the company and tell them about what a horrible Toxic work experience that was
Scary stuff. Thankful for Scripps journalism
Old news - was anyone charged or jailed or deported for the biolab ? Was there ever an occupancy permit? Was there ever an inspection that anyone signed off? Who paid to truck off and dispose of everything?
Of course they are looking for small towns that have no spotlight. How else can they hide out? Smh
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 And, this administration has opened the board letting people like this IN😡
What did you expect? The THEIF in the White House is not only a lier but a thief.
The local ,State & federal government is at fault, we pay the taxes and they picket it or send it to their cronies.
Hidden Chinese bio rab
😂
The bridges 😂 pure joke at this point. They looked at this stuff about 10 years ago. Realized it was bad then. N where did the money go.😂 y'all know where it went. We are all in for some fd up stuff soon. These politicians r the ones that need to be put in jail. All fingers point back to them. Period
It went to UKRAINE AND ISRAEL
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We are communist now 😢
Why aren't the inspecting engineers held responsible for not shutting down that bridge? It was falling apart for years- seems no one suffers pentalies
@@khismetnah it went to ventilators and patriot act first
They put forward a infrastructure bill. What are they using it for? To fix bridges and railways? Of course not. Using for other stuff.
giveing it to future voters we are paying for illeagels to vote against us so they can realy twist the blade
Retirement funds
My benefits were stolen as well as a number of locals here in California, the welfare office had to reissue funds , im sure it was ILLEGALS, they said each of our cards were skimmed at 6am at a USbank in Los Angeles 🤬 i never go to LA
No dude, it is Americans born here and they believe working hard is for suckers. Illegals might do it, but they will need to learn the language and laws. It comes from the idea that illegals and immigrants are not people or do not have rights so they can be targeted and taken advantage of. And usually, illegals are targeted because they are afraid to report the crime.
USBank is notorious for this exact issue
Garunteed it was illegals.
This was an inside job. I don't care what anyone says. I'm across the country and had the same store Sam's Club in Las Vegas and North Carolina take benefits. Mean while I never had a sam's club membership. Now I boycott Walmart, Sam's club.
Then my county claimed I did not file for a reimbursements "on time" luckily I kept a good record and sent emails because the staff would have intentionally denied me reimbursements.
It was sickening to know that these funds are not protected from fraud. This had to be done by someone with knowledge of the system.
Get out of California and get a job.
Any store that doesn’t have measures to prevent skimmers from being i stalled should be fined or prosecuted.
Exactly people need to hear this I’m glad that someone still reporting on this. A lot more of this is going to come with this open border and not just with the Chinese Venezuela just released 100 inmates and told them to leave the country guess we’re there coming infact most are likey here
I'm deaf and homeless and not eligable for food stamps couse someone in New York is getting foodstamps in my name and dcfs says theirs nothing they can do about it
Do they have any disability legal aid organizations there? Or any legal aid organizations? They may be able to provide free legal assistance to rectify the problem.
@@Milfordbeach not in Florida cops don't care but they will arrest you for being homeless in a minute .
@@MilfordbeachWow that was helpful
Yet the US is trying to ban TikTok instead
Instead? You have no idea how many investigations are running concurrent with this lab. So, what does this have to do with the TikTok ban?
They need to ban any Chinese and Red Army from coming through the Southern border. And yes they have come through-- that's why all the illegals are all men of military age.
It has a lot to do with it. Our politicians could be focused on such as stop selling farmland to china,, Chinese police stations ,the border, the cost to live should I keep going
TikTok is used to spy on Americans and for brainwashing. Wake up.
Tiktok is a weapon of mass destruction...of minds. Also spyware and psychological warfare. Not to mention the abuse of children.🤐🍻
Somebody ask Obama where all the shovel ready jobs went.
The Simpsons werent lying for rural America knowing the future ahead of time
@@user-yv7dt5je1lthis story is similar of a next pandemic but this time done here in the US
there's nothing, i repeat nothing the government cannot make worse
Yes it is! Stores closing banks closing hospitals closing. I call that worse! And Americans getting laid off so illegal aliens can have the jobs!
Why am I not surprised!
Act of war? Or am I just crazy
A little known bridge in southern California cracked during the sep atmospheric river and had to be removed, it's best known as the white water bridge but nobody was hurt because it was never used since the i10 freeway was built
I'm totally into useless information. 😎👍
This is scary stuff
Snap doesn't provide a statement so one can track your spending. You can ask for one through the automated system but ask an employee and they no nothing about how to get one or that they even exist. However if your income increases they will deduct that amount from your benefits in a hot minute.
I know, right? Every time they give an increase in Social Security the food stamps turn around and take the exact amount back out so we end up back at square one.
Social Security should be the equivalent to whatever the state's minimum wage is. We're forced to live off less than half of minimum wage in California. That's why there's so many people homeless in California, because of that and the ridiculously high rents and the slumlords that the state does nothing about and lets them raise the rent to where you're paying $3,000 for a studio apt..
Forced? Get a job
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7ynNo give me some money sucker. Get a job 😂
At what point do the states say enough is enough against the federal government. It's time to quit funding the federal government and let our states that we pay taxes to fix our infrastructure. I'm sick of paying taxes to somebody who gives it to someone else we the people need to make change now as far as I'm concerned I'm never paying federal taxes again
Oh how i wish we could stop working and paying taxes. But what can we do? We have to keep working to pay our bills and food
Always vote in your LOCAL ELECTIONS... Always!!!
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@@ernest9606change your W-4? IRS will come after you though. My husband did it years ago.
@ernest9606 I dont believe she/he didn't mean to stop working, he/she's talking about the States starting to take back their rights from the federal government. The Federal will run down, sell out every State. Tie the States hands, more to where they have to listen them, they have taken so much from each State. It's time to take are States back, rebuild our communities, citys, the infrastructure of each It's own..
Laws could be change that you must be a AMerican born citizen to purchase or own land in America... In addition require only person born to legal citizen can get citizenship....Too much government funds is stolen from government officials that was intended for infrastruture.... They will not try to pass bill to tax citizens to fund more government funds to steal and possible to do some repairs to the infrastruture... No one will be held legal accountable for this type of goverment theft as the department of justice will not hold their people legally accountable for anything.
Totally agree. Other countries have that law
The illegal aliens don't have to purchase a home. Why would they when they can just squat on somebody else's property! Which they are doing right now!
Still don't want to see how we are being played by our entire system .
It should be against the law to take tax money from the city that provides it, to give it to another town or city, if they cant support themselves with the tax payers they have then they are in over ther head, this is still money laundering
We all need more news like this “ REAL “. God bless.
It's more than snap benefits being stolen- properties, identities, innocent people being put in jail etc.
that place was a wreck! i wonder how common that is for secret biolsabs to be so disorderly!?
Keep up the good, job, Scripps News. Bravos! Kudos!!!! ❤ 🙏
The labs were making cheap test kits with funding from state and they never mentioned it in the news.
What kind of test kits?
They need to check all areas in every state county areas. I can’t believe that the FBICIA couldn’t even figure this out. That’s really scary.
I live on the Southern Border and watch hundreds of illegal aliens being dumped onto the streets by Border Patrol busses each week. The vast majority are military aged Asian men.
If it was important we would never know about it
And a video of the chinese immigrants crossing in from mexico border showed 80% ARE YOUNG MILITARY AGED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN that really scared me.
He , he he, ! Is Laughing all the way to the Chinese Bank.
NOTHING is done to these scammers that is why it only continues to get worse. The authorities do nothing to stop it.
Anyone arrested...
Finally someone covering last years news.
Great job! God bless.
Anyone else notice the 11-18-2020 date on Covid samples? 7:43 is dated 2006 Oct 11th.
SARSCOVID 19 has been known since the 80’s. Nothing new unfortunately
You are right thanks for noticing they had Sars when I was a kid. Only a few city's and Asia did any masking. This time around they hyped it up as new got people to take the DNA reboot for however they decided to change people. Time will tell
Corona
4:25 I know I know!!! 🙋♂️🙋♂️ THE STATE!!!! 😂
There are Chinese biolabs in almost every state!!!
Why would China make their toxic chemicals in Mexico, when they can easily make them here. Now, instead of smuggling backpacks of fake pills, they only need the precursors snuck in!
Bio labs? Where did they get these disease specimens? How many chemists has CCP and Biden sent into our country?
Pennsylvania has terrible bridges
This pisses me off we don't have the money and resources But we have billions to send over seas what a load Mr bootiCall !
There’s no way they did this without government knowing. Sounds like a cover up.
We investigate and follow this back to the Biden Whitehouse
Money has been earmarked for bridges for a long time now. Where did that money go?
Infrastructure $$$ rarely get to where it's needed. Seems like we talk abt this every year and nothing is done. Yet billions of dollars are allocated yearly.
I'll bet there are hundreds of these labs all over the country.
As for those crumbling bridges, is a clear example of America's declining infastructure......
These problems are purposely allowed to exist
Sadly, yes.
You mean to tell me your just now getting to this
We have to abide by the law but foreigners can do as they please.
Instead of our government giving billions to other countries. They need to spend that money on our roads, bridges and homeless Americans and everything else here in America.
Infuriating.
It wasn't the "wuhan" that the City Manager quoted, but it could have been. Chinese gov/companies should be kept out of here. But we know California politicians are easily purchased.
Yet no mention on local news. Not newsworthy for americans?
Wow! I used to live in Reedley.
I'm in sacramento, and it's scary knowing that the Governor is allowing a bio weapons lab to operate here.
Wow!
@@user-dw6dp5yx7b I graduated from Reedley College with a two year degree in horticulture.
I had my snap benefits stolen last month. I used to have a really good factory job before I got in a car accident. I survived on a pack a ramen a day and donations from neighbors which was embarrassing.
Ramen noodles are full of salt really bad for you
I guarantee these are the people connected to a lot of missing people
So much for that "build back better" plan, huh Joe??
They don’t want to take down
China because of the cheap labor and goods but at what cost does it really come with
The question should be where do the criminals receive the scimmers.
I'm trying to figure out why the two women who answered the door to the laboratory they had set up in the middle of the city why didn't they get took the jail and questioned
Those SNAP cards should be geo restricted to a 25 mile radius
No. For some people travel 60 miles to work and to affordable grocery shopping. Like I did for 6 years while living in affordable rent situation with my kids and working.
Anybody can do anything or whatever they want in this country.. America is gone
The bridges all need repair...
So why money going to
Defend every country
That have war..