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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Government Taxpayer Fraud and Corruption, Part 5: Minnesota (Again), Mediciad (Again), Small Business Adminstration, and Everywhere Else

 We are going to  spend a lot of discussion time in the coming posts 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)Let’s get started with our favorite fraud infested state, Minnesota:


  • Federal  prosecutors recently announced that they had charged a Minnesota  care owner with wire fraud  and conspiracy to defraud the United  States.

  • They accused the alleged culprit of  using the Covid child nutrition  program to enrich herself as  a result  of  submitting  grossly  inflated  claims for compensation.

  • The accused operated the Future Leaders Early Learning  Center  and defrauded the Child Nutrition Program under the corrupted Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.

  • In a single month, July, 2021, the alleged culprit  collected a whopping $854,000 in Federal  government nutrition  funds.

  • She collected an  additional  $4.6 million from October, 2022  through December, 2025.

  • Federal authorities say most of those funds never made it into food to feed kids.

  • Prosecutors claim that the operator tried to flee to London  earlier this year but was stopped  from doing so.


It makes you wonder if there was ever an  honest and real  charity  operating in  the state.


2)HHS Secretary Robert  Kennedy Jr.  has been busy announcing additional fraud  schemes across the  country:


  • He  recently announced that Federal investigators uncovered  the largest autism fraud in American  history.

  • Kennedy says that the fraud scheme eventually and illegally collected over $480 million  of taxpayer  money.

  • Specifically:I want to start. I thought I was going to have a slide here. I want to call your attention to this, which is in your, okay, here it is, which is in your packet. This was the cost of your early intervention and development program in 2020 it was 38 point 1 million. This is what we expected to be paying every year. Instead, this year hit 442 million, and I’m showing you that because that’s the magnitude of the fraud and the damage that we’re talking about today.” 

  • He  continued:  “Today’s arrest represents the largest autism fraud bust in American history. This was not a paperwork error, it was not a technical violation. This was organized threat, organized theft that exploited the most vulnerable children in America. Deceived families stole taxpayer dollars meant to help children with autism with autism access legitimate care and support.”

  • The fraudsters billed the government for services that were  never provided, fake diagnoses, and fake care claims.


Still so  disgusting that these fraudsters took  money that was intended to  feed hungry kids in a time  of need and  provide medical services to  kids with autism.


3)Small Business Administration head, Kelly Loeffler, recently discussed the  massive fraud that infected the  Paycheck  Protection  Program during the Covid  period:


  • She said that about $200 BILLION in fraudulent loans occurred during the pandemic.

  • Specifically:  “At the SBA, we found $200 billion in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden administration tried to hide, and forgive, and sweep under the rug.” 

  • The $200 billion suspected fraud is obviously the worst fraud scheme we have discussed so far, far worse than any  previous accusations of fraud in any government program.

  • She said that $22 billion of the fraud had already been passed onto the Justice and Treasury departments for collection  efforts to recover  the taxpayer funds.

  • She also said that some  of the fraudsters are already serving  prison  sentences.

  • Some of the fraud schemes included fake businesses, false  payroll records,  identity theft, and other criminal efforts.


It never ends and  always includes just about every government entity, none of whom could control abusive spending and crimes.


4)Vice President JD Vance has been named as  the fraud guru whose purpose is to root out and prosecute the Medicaid fraudsters across the country and  across the government. He recently announced that  he is launching a program to crack down  on fraud in all fifty states and those states that fail to assist in that effort will lose Federal government funding.


This announcement came shortly after the Federal government blocked the payment of $1.3 billion because of 800 bogus hospice centers in  California: “We’re announcing that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California. And the simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously. We want California to get serious about this fraud.” 


He also said that Hawaii and New York in addition to California are getting special attention  regarding the potentially high levels of fraud in those two states: “New York has had nine indictments over the last year — nine indictments, That’s a $100 billion Medicaid program just in New York.”


Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head  of Medicaid and Medicare has said that at least half  of the hospice centers in the Los Angeles area receiving Medicaid money are probably bogus. Apparently one third of all supposed hospice centers in the  country are located in the single city of Los Angeles, which makes  it  amazing that no one for years and years noticed this ridiculous and obvious fraud situation.


The fraud train  keeps running down the track: Minnesota, Hawaii,  New York, and every other state and government program.


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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Government Fraud Update, Part 2: Phantom Hospices In California, Kentucky Politicians Do Not Care, and Intentionally Paying For Bogus Claims

 For the  last several weeks we have focused on two themes in  our posts. The first theme was  good old political class insanity and how the politicians in this country always make things worse and we pay for their  ineptness in so many ways. The second theme was a continual review of which major city or state government will get to bankruptcy court first given that our top candidates are already in  financial death spirals.

We are going to step back from these themes for a while and embark on what is going to be a long list of instances of government and criminal and fraud  corruption. Every level of government these days seems to have government programs that are infested with criminal actions that steal hard earned taxpayer dollars for themselves, depriving needy Americans of the resources they need to overcome the problems they face everyday.

There will be no special or organized order as we explore the multitude of capers and  criminal actions against government programs. The only thing we can say now is that the almost daily uncovering of new fraud cases and investigations will be disgusting and long.

Before going any further, let’s give credit to Nick Shirley, a 23 year old independent journalist who uncovered billions of dollars worth of government fraud in  Minnesota before moving on to California where he has been uncovering similar government corruption and criminal fraud in that state. It seems that his efforts were the catalyst that started an avalanche of criminal  schemes stealing taxpayer dollars becoming public knowledge.

1)Although we have just started on the journey to discuss all of the government corruption going on, it seems California is going to get a large share of the discussion, given the criminal activities that have infested government programs out in that state:

  • California’s state government pays out almost $30 billion every year via its In-Home Supportive Services Program.

  • In theory, this program is supposed to get elderly and  disabled folks the medical and life care they need  right inside their home, a noble idea.

  • Unfortunately, it appears that anywhere between $6 billion and $12 billion a year never makes it to those people in need and is skimmed off by criminal fraud beforehand.

  • This is the estimated waste that was determined by analysis by the Manhattan Institute.

  • One aspect of  the program is that it pays family members to help with  cooking, personal care,  laundry, and other everyday tasks that an elderly or disabled family member  might need.

  • But weak oversight has allowed people to say they are caring for elderly or disabled relatives when that is not actually the case,  pocketing taxpayer money in the process of doing phantom home care work.

  • In addition, apparently family members, in order to qualify and get paid for home care, have to join a home-care union and pay dues that come out to about $149 million a year.

  • The union, in  turn, contributes to political campaigns of politicians which  keep the fraud infested program running in order to get political campaign donations, a classic money laundering operation.

Thus, we have  a case where  not only are the criminals that defraud guilty but the politicians in  power who love getting campaign donations are also  complicit in defrauding the American taxpayer.


2)Consider some  testimony from state government experts on  the corruption they see on their jobs:


  • Kentucky state auditor, Allison Ball, and Dr. OJ Oleka, the CEO of the State Financial  Officers Foundation (SFOF), recently testified at a Congressional committee hearing.

  • The hearing was “Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in  Federally Funded Programs Run By The States.”

  • Ball and Oleka reviewed the government fraud they see in  the state of Kentucky.

  • Oleka: “When you have a culture that defers to fraud and allows it to stand, then you spend more money. When you spend more money that then mandates, based on your political philosophy, an increase in taxes. So, if you increase taxes on hardworking families, now they’re faced with the choice of putting gas in their car [or] paying [for] diapers for their children. There’s a real cost that families have to go through all because fraud wasn’t detected. And it [fraud] also sows distrust, because you have people who are trying to survive on WIC [Women, Infants, and Children] or SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] or government benefits, and they look to their left and they see one of their neighbors who’s a fraudster riding around in a Benz buying as much food as they can.” 

  • He went on: “I would hope that nobody’s trying to make fraud a partisan issue. I think it’s really important that you’ve got the American people who feel not only compelled but interested in making sure their money is being spent efficiently. I’m an American citizen and I pay taxes. I want to make sure my government’s spending it efficiently. So, however you approach that as a government leader, I think really it probably demonstrates the kind of leader that you are.”

  • Ball talked about the state government fraud she found in Kentucky:  “It’s because people were listed as living in Kentucky and then listed as living in other states. You have both states, Kentucky and somewhere else, paying for their medical bills. So, we did this real deep dive into why this happened, and one of the things we found, it was a cultural issue.”

  • Despite finding through an audit that the state government of Kentucky wasted over $800 million on Medicaid fraud, the governor’s office “actually told them, ‘Hey, this is low priority, you know, just get to it if you can. But it’s just not something that we’re really concerned about.'”

  • She went  on to explain why this non-caring about government fraud is important: “So, if you have that kind of attitude, then obviously it opens the door for all kinds of problems, which is what we saw. I have been disappointed and frustrated because Governor Beshear, he sees everything as politics. And I say to him, ‘No, some of these real problems must need to be resolved.'”

  • She went on to testify that the governor, Andy Beshar, explained it away nonchalantly by stating: “Well, other states have the same problem.”

  • She also said that when she and others identified fraud problems outside of just Medicaid fraud, the governor’s office was not interested in  fixing the wasting of taxpayer money that was supposed to be used for foster children: “An issue that we just did a report on was foster children in Kentucky have been housed in office buildings and other places, and that’s another one where we really wanted to work for the governor, we really want to work with the cabinet, and they just were not that interested.”

  • To Ball’s credit when questioned by a Congressman,  James Comer, if the governor’s office was helpful in any form in  curbing fraud in any way, she bravely stated “NO.”


There you have  it: people working the fraud issue everyday and politicians at least in Kentucky saying “don’t bother us” with the wasting of taxpayer money in multiple government programs. Disgusting attitude and disrespect to American taxpayers.


3)Robert Kennedy, Jr., the current Health and  Human Services Secretary, recently testified in front of Congress, under oath, and made some very distressing statements about how the Biden administration knew there was Medicaid and  Medicare fraud going on and did nothing to stop it:


  • Specifically, his testimony was about the hundreds of bogus hospice organizations that were operating in the Los Angeles area, a topic we have already covered.

  • According to Kennedy, the system of fraud was actually named by the Biden  administration, “pay and chase.

  • He claims that under Biden, Medicare and Medicaid processed claims that their computer systems had already flagged as fraudulent but still cut and sent out the checks to the fraudulent hospice operators.

  • The strategy, if you can call it that, was to pay now and hope to recover the fraud dollars later, a totally stupid idea if true.

  • According to Mr. Kennedy: "We were paying claims that we knew were fraudulent before we paid them."

  • More globally, Mr Kennedy went on  to explain: "Fraud has become rife throughout our system. We estimate the cost of it to the American taxpayer is about $100 billion a year."

  • Let me repeat his estimate for effect: American taxpayers are being defrauded by $100 billion (not millions, billions) a year even though the government knew of the fraud but still paid anyway.

  • A  Texas member of the House, Beth Van Duyne, asked Kennedy about a building at 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, California.

  • Apparently, this single address was on record as being the location for over 100 Medicare licensed hospice operations and yet nobody in the Biden administration thought that was strange or a con job, 100 hospice organizations using the same address.

  • She had also asked Biden’s HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra, that same question  years before but as a member of the Biden  administration, Becerra did nothing to shut down this single criminal  organization which enabled it to continue to steal  taxpayer wealth for years.

  • The Medicare and  Medicaid scam worked as follows: criminal fake hospice operators  recruited health people in mostly low income LA areas, offered them $600 in cash or a flat screen TV to sign up for end-of-life hospice care that most of them did not need.

  • Then Medicare and Medicaid paid the bogus and  criminal hospice operators $6,000 for each of the bogus patients the fake hospices signed up.

  • Kennedy pointed out in  his testimony that despite the fact that these folks were signed up for end-of-life hospice services, very, very few of them actually died.

  • Kennedy did not have kind  words for Biden:  "We are being victimized in our country because of the laxity of vigilance by the Biden Administration."

  • The sad part of this whole criminal fraud situation is that the General Accountability Office  (GAO) knew that there were high levels of  Medicare and  Medicaid fraud going on since at least 1990 and put together  over 100 recommendations to alleviate the massive fraud. 

  • Unfortunately, most of them had still not been implemented over 30 years later.


Unbelievable that the Federal government could  be so inept in  managing taxpayer wealth. Refusing to implement dozens and dozens of recommendations to  prevent Medicare and  Medicaid fraud. Knowing that many claims were false and bogus and yet still paid them. Incredible incompetence.


That will do for our fraud review today: paying out on fake billings despite knowing they were fake, the Kentucky governor and his administration too busy to fix the leaking of taxpayer wealth to criminal  enterprises, and obviously yet ignored hospice criminal  operations in California.


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