Federal agency wants Pennsylvania to repay $220 million

I missed this HUGE story a few weeks ago-

Federal agency wants Pennsylvania to repay $220 million
By Mike Wereschagin
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The state budget hole could get $220 million deeper if Gov. Tom Corbett's administration can't persuade a federal agency to ignore its own investigators.

A federal audit of child welfare spending in Allegheny County from 1997 to 2002 found that at least $1 of every $5 reimbursed through the Title IV-E program to foster care providers shouldn't have been reimbursed. If that's true, and if other counties received similar overpayments, it would mean Pennsylvania got hundreds of millions of dollars more from the federal government than it should have.

The agency that paid reimbursements -- the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- wants $220 million back. The state faces a $4 billion deficit next year.

Pennsylvania is trying to settle with Health and Human Services for a lower amount. State lawyers argued in a 30-page letter sent in September to auditors that their audit, conducted by the department's Office of Inspector General, is a "capricious," "oppressive" and "unlawful" use of government power.  FULL STORY

What a bizzare choice of words from the goose-stepping fascists.  We think this should be a nation-wide demand for TRILLION$ from the states.  We think these people should all be in PRISON for their Federal Crimes (several of which carry Capital Punishment) against America's families.