Readers of this column might recall the name Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services Inc. Along with yours truly, he co-authored two columns regarding the inexcusable waste of California tax dollars by the Employment Development Department. The first column, entitled Preventing Future Fraud, was published in February of 2021 while the state was deep in the throes of the Covid pandemic. At the time, we predicted that the total amount of fraud could be as high as $31 billion. We now know that it was much more than that. As we laid out, the problem was the abject failure...