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Monday, August 31, 2026

Government Tax Fraud and Corruption, Part 16: More Fraud in California and Minnesota, Fraud Cover Up In Blue States and More

We are continuing our discussion time to review the massive amount of criminal fraud that has infected government programs for many, many years. The outstanding investigations recently done, and still being done, by independent journalist, Nick Shirley, has started a cascading identification of the numerous fraud instances at all levels of government across the country.

It is unbelievable how many billions of dollars have been wasted and are currently being wasted and siphoned off by all types of criminal activities. And while it is amazing how much taxpayer wealth has been wasted and lost, possibly even more amazing is the reality that through the decades the political class and the government entities they overlook were unable or unwilling to stop the fraud.

1)In our many discussions of criminal defrauding of taxpayers and government programs, we have discussed illegal immigrants and American citizens involved in the fraud. But American politicians have also been very active in stealing taxpayer wealth through fraud:

Recent indictments up in Massachusetts of a state politician and a city mayor illustrate this point.
Each was indicted in 11 count indictments for Covid program fraud.
Allegations include money laundering, wire fraud, and filing false claims against Covid relief programs.
One of those indicted collected over $700,000 by filing false claims.
The other defendant allegedly collected over $1.5 million and used the stolen funds for campaign funding, paying off tax liabilities, and paying down mortgages.
These two culprits are just two of over 3,500 alleged fraudsters and $1,4 billion that the Federal government’s Covid-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force have tracked down.

If these folks are found guilty it is another sad chapter for the political class: individuals that should know better and be actively protecting taxpayer wealth end up stealing the wealth that they should have protected. Disgusting.

2)Why does it seem that whenever we review fraud schemes we always end up in Minnesota, a state that is the poster child for defrauding the government’s programs and taxpayer dollars:

In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Human Services gave out an Outstanding Refugee Award to Salman Ahmed Elmi.
Elmi operated a company called RevaHealth in Minnesota.
But now Elmi is accused of claiming more than $4.5 million in Medicaid services that were never provided.
Charges include aiding and abetting theft by swindle and aiding and abetting theft by false representation.
Two co-conspirators were also busted for sex trafficking involving brothels.
Thus, facilities that were supposedly providing Medicaid services were actually acting as houses of prostitution.
A co-honoree of Elmi from that 2021 award, Ayan Abukar, has already been convicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
Of the 92 people that Federal prosecutors have charged in various Minnesota fraud schemes 82 of them are Somali natives.

Great. Minnesota politicians and government bureaucrats honor foreign born nationals that end up stealing from American born taxpayers, pretty big disconnect.

3)Besides Minnesota, the state of California appears to be the second epicenter of fraud in the country and the Trump administration is finally taking action to crack down on Minnesota and California's inability to control criminal fraud:

In late July, Health and Human Service secretary, Robert F.Kennedy, Jr., announced that the Federal government was going to withhold more than $1 billion from these two states because of the apparent fraud in their states.
$867.5 million is being held back from California and $199 million is being held back from Minnesota.
These are temporary holds until the two states can prove they are actually and diligently tracking the trail of taxpayer money out of government programs.
Caofiornia payments to in-home health care companies look very suspicious, growing faster than the national average.
In Minnesota, there are 14 programs that have suspicious activity beyond the average.
This comes on the heels of a recent Department of Justice California case that involved $50 million in health care fraud as a result of “Operation Never say Die,” where eight individuals of supposed hospice companies are accused of billing Medicare for patients in hospice who were not terminally ill.

Again, the two epicenters in the country for massive government program fraud, California and Minnesota.

4)The House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent letters out to every governor asking for states to turn over data relative to the Federal SNAP/food stamp programming order to try and find out where there might be fraud going on. Reasonable request: the Feds give money to the states to fund SNAP and should be able to audit the results and processes used to spend Federal taxpayer money.

However, five states, NewYork, California, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, have refused to comply with this logical and simple request. The SNAP program costs taxpayers over $100 billion a year, and it has been shown to be a frequent target of fraudsters. Given that the subcommittee has already identified over $3 billion in potential waste in the program in other states, why would these five states not want to help ferret out fraud?

Unfortunately, these five states have some of the largest SNAP populations in the country so the potential for finding fraud in these states is high. But given that California is known for widespread fraud, New York and Illinois are on the top of our list for states most likely to go bankrupt because of mismanagement and ineptness, it is not surprising that these states are afraid to disclose what should be a normal, audit-wise process of uncovering fraud. Disgusting disrespect for taxpayer wealth.

4)Let’s finish up with another trip to fraud infested California:

Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who started off the awareness of the widespread fraud across the country, recently dropped a new video related to massive fraud in California.
Shirley's latest effort has exposed over $170 million in fraud in the state in daycares, learning centers, and hospices.
Specifically: “We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences,” Nick Shirley said.
California’s Medicaid budget has grown from $107 billion a year to a whopping $222 billion 2026, more than a 100% increase in just a few years while the state population has grown far less than that, indicating that fraud has overtaken the budget.
Furthermore, LA County hospice care expenses over the past few years have grown by 1,000%, a figure that cannot be explained any other way than fraud.
Shirley and staff visited bogus hospices and daycares in the state and found no patients or customers.

Another day, another day of massive California fraud. To get the video

details on Shirley's latest fraud exposure venture, go to the following link

https://thepatriotchronicles.com/politics/californias-170m-fraud-exposed-watch-now/

Enough fraud for today: California and Minnesota continue to be the leaders in fraud but other states continue to protect the fraud in their backyards as the American taxpayer continues to get screwed.

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Sunday, August 30, 2026

August, 2026, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: A California Rail Project May Finally Die, A Teachers' Union That Does Not Care About Teaching, and Food Poisoning On the Menu In LA

We have spent a lot of blog time recently on trying to figure out which state or city government will go bankrupt first and the massive amount of criminal fraud that exists within many government programs. However, that does not mean that other, regular political class insanity has stopped:

1)We have often written about the total fiasco known as the California bullet train project. It was supposed to create a high speed rail line to run from the northern part of the state to the southern part of the state and deliver fast, efficient train service. It should have been completed years ago but it is nowhere close to being completed despite billions of dollars already being spent.

And it appears that this political class dream is finally going to die forever:

According to a report from the state’s office of the Inspector General, the unfinished project “will exhaust its current funding resources as soon as December 2027 if it does not secure funding.”
The report went on to say the project faces an almost $10 billion funding gap over the next five years and there is no plan right now to find that funding in the state government budget
Furthermore, there were "significant concerns" regarding the transparency and ever slipping completion date of the project.
Not surprising since the current completion date estimate is 2034 and there is nothing in the history of the project that says this is a hard date.
State politician Vince Fong, long an opponent of the project, called it for what it is: “California’s High-Speed Rail is the quintessential example of government mismanagement. I’ve called it out since day 1. Californians were promised a completed rail 6 years ago. Today we’ve spent billions and billions, for a total of zero trains. Gavin Newsom owes us an explanation. And an apology. It’s beyond time to shut this down.”

Another failure for the American political class: lofty goals, massive budget overruns, grossly missed implementation dates, non-transparent disclosures, etc. This one had it all.

2)We have often discussed the overall failure of the public education system in this country:

Our discussion on how a Baltimore high school graduating class had about 70% of its members reading at only the third grade level or below.
How the U.S. kids rank behind dozens of other countries’ kids when it comes to education proficiency.
How over 90% of Detroit public school eighth graders were NOT proficient in math and reading.

Given the sorry state of most of the public education complex in this country ,one would expect and hope teachers and their union to be laser focused on improving this dismal performance. But that hope is probably not going to happen, given the latest from the teachers’ main union:

Randi Weingarten is the leader of the American Federation of Teachers.
One would hope that she would be the leader in improving school performance.
However, she has other priorities including badgering the Target department store company for not kowtowing to her demands relative to illegal immigrants.
She is urging parents not to shop for back to school needs because Target has not condemned ICE actions against illegal immigrants, many of whom are rapists, murderers, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and child abusers.
Specifically: “We gave Target ample time to stand with the communities in which they operate and help their neighbors, but its silence about federal immigration abuses has been deafening, We wrote letters, passed resolutions and reached out to management in good faith but have yet to see any meaningful movement. The issue could not be more pressing. Seven months since the murders of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, masked ICE agents are still in our streets, our schools and our communities, terrorizing families in the name of Donald Trump’s illegal and immoral assault on immigrants striving for their American Dream. That’s why we’re urging our members to avoid Target and patronize more ethical shopping alternatives this back-to-school season.”

Seriously, your job is to educate kids, and you are doing a very bad job at that, and yet you are wasting time and energy and priorities to address an issue the union has no reason to address? ICE is enforcing the law of the land relative to illegal immigrants. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were illegally and violently interfering with that obligation and law enforcement.

Ms Weingarten, stay in your lane and do what you have failed to do: properly educate American kids.

3)So many times we have discussed the role that the government should play in our lives with the utmost primary goal being to protect the lives and property of the citizens of any government entity it serves. Most of the time we have discussed this basic tenet in the context of police and judicial protections.

But there are also other government functions that should be used to protect citizens’ lives. One of those would be public health functions that make sure that food, water, and other common life necessities are safe for consumption and use via a board of health duties

But apparently the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, does not understand that a basic function of her administration is board of health functions and safety relative to the selling of food and meals in the city:

Most rationally run cities have a formal board of health function that makes sure that restaurants and other food servers comply with hygiene and health code rules and regulations to ensure the safety of the citizens consuming that food.
That requires regular inspections of food processing operations and the paying for permit fees by those food providers.
Again, a very basic function of government, protecting the safety of its citizens.
But Bass has prioritized illegal immigrants’ welfare over the food safety of her own U.S. citizens.
According to Breitbart reporting, Bass ordered the LA Police Department to stop issuing criminal citations for food vendors, many of whom are illegal immigrants, in the streets of the city for not conforming to board of health regulations and permitting rules.
Specifically: “Street vending is a quintessential part of LA’s world-class food scene and a livelihood for thousands of hardworking Angelenos. Supporting LA’s street vendors is more important than ever given ongoing attacks by ICE.”
Thus, the hell with public health, it is more important to protect illegal immigrants from Federal law enforcement officers enforcing the laws of the land, than public food safety.
Breitbart further reported that there are about 50,000 food vendors in the city while the city government has issued only 700 active board of health permits.
Those 700 food vendors pay fees, subject themselves to board of health inspections and possible fines, and comply with health code laws and rules while tens of thousands of others get a free ride.
Thus, in addition to massive homeless encampments in the city, there are thousands and thousands of illegal and unregulated food vendors also setting up shop on the streets with no fear of being arrested or fines, adding another dimension to the zoo that is LA.
These vendors may not always comply with food sanitation rules and common sense food storage and prep rules, endangering any consumers of food from these unlicensed and uninspected food vendors.
Los Angeles County is following Bass’ lead on dangerous food vending: “The Los Angeles County Health Department, citing immigration enforcement efforts by the Trump administration, last fall suspended all enforcement of thousands of noncompliant street food vendors who have proliferated with the massive influx of illegals under the Biden administration.”
Again, the welfare of illegal immigrants at the county level is more important than the food safety for citizens.
As a result of this negligence in enforcing common sense board of health rules, the county reported almost 3,000 reported food poisoning instances in 2025 with the feeling being that the unreported instances of food poisoning never get reported is far greater than 3,000.
Thus, on average at least eight LA citizens in the city and county are getting food poisoned every day.
One citizen on social media pointed out how ridiculous this is: “You do everything legally, pay rent, employees, taxes, business licenses, and a street food vendor pops up across the street with no overhead, no license, cash only, and undercuts your business. L.A. city officials suck.”

Another example of where Democratic and liberal politicians care more about the welfare of illegal immigrants than their own citizens. They give illegal immigrants free food, free shelter, free medical care, and other free services while Americans suffer from homelessness, food insecurity, and other unresolved problems.

And now in LA, illegal immigrant food vendors are more important than legally run American citizen food establishments and operations, resulting in potentially massive health harm by the unlicensed and uncontrolled illegal immigrant street food vendors.

Enough insanity for today: food poisoning on the menu in LA, a teachers’ union that cares more about politics than teaching, and a boondoggle project may finally die.

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