Up to $50 billion of that total could be siphoned off by fraudsters in current months, says David Williams, who runs Deloitte Financial Services Advisory.
He estimates that $500 billion of the package will flow through the traditional government procurement network.
"The rule of thumb typically is that of the… money that's going to run through the procurement process, somewhere between 5 percent and 10 percent… usually finds its way into potential problems," Williams tells MarketWatch.
"That's sort of the benchmark that I use."
The fact that the money flows electronically puts companies even more at risk of being ripped off, Williams points out.
"We're telling our clients to be very careful and to make sure their firms are resilient in terms of dealing with the potential opportunities for fraud and waste," he says.
"It becomes ever more important that firms remain diligent about their data."
FBI Director Robert Mueller also warns of fraud stemming from the stimulus package.
“These funds are inherently vulnerable to bribery, fraud, conflicts of interest, and collusion,” he said last month.
Many experts oppose the stimulus for issues far removed from fraud and corruption.
“It’s just a grab bag of every spending proposal that’s been banging around Congress for years,” publisher Steve Forbes told Bloomberg TV.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:54 AM
By: Dan Weil – Newsmax
Next stop… Nationalized Medicine… If we don’t stop government run healthcare, this fraud will look like a ‘walk in the park’… while medical services become more and more restricted, the number of doctors and nurses diminish and government decides who qualifies for what services… or that you don’t qualify at all because you are too old etc etc, the fraud will be rampant!
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