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72,000 stimulus payments went to dead people

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER 2010-10-08T03:33:06Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report....

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