FCC commissioner blows whistle on ‘Obamaphone’ waste

Ajit Pai

Ajit Pai, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, took to national television Monday morning to tell the watching audience his five-member board was forced to stay quiet on “Obamaphone” waste and abuse until after the agency announced the program would be expanded to include Internet.

As WND previously reported, the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to expand its long-running telephone subsidy program, formally known as Lifeline, to include Internet access for lower-income Americans.

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But on “Fox & Friends,” Pai admitted that the phone program has been implicated in a fraud investigation involving a California cell company accused of pilfering millions of dollars from taxpayers. At the same time, he said agency rules forbid him from notifying the press or public about the scandal until the Obamaphone expansion was announced.

“I think it’s an outrage,” he said, during the interview, “not just as a commissioner but as a citizen for this program to be administered the way it has been, overlooking the fraud and expanding it even further.”

He also said he’s now “hoping that shining a light on their operations will encourage the American people to take a closer look at this program.”

Pai said, Fox News reported: “There’s a lot of fraud that’s basically under wraps and that needs to come out into the open. This is only the tip of the iceberg, I expect.”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked Pai why he was revealing information now, but not a week ago, when the Obamaphone expansion was officially announced. Pai said the rules about releasing nonpublic information are clear and he wasn’t sure what FCC officials would do in order to force the compliance, or as punishment for violations.

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The FCC released a Notice of Apparent Liability a week ago that accused Total Call Mobile of duplicating tens of thousands of accounts, and taking in an illegal $9.7 million from the duplicated accounts, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Total Call Mobile provides service in 19 states.

The FCC, via spokesman Will Wiquist, sent a statement to Fox News saying no delay in sending out the notification existed.

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