Later in December, 2025 we did a series of posts on just how out of control the criminal fraud being committed against government taxpayer funded programs has become. Billions and billions of dollars being funneled into criminal enterprises and never reaching the people who were most in need of those services.
The first of those posts can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/12/never-ending-government-corruption-part.html
Obviously, many of those discussions were focused on the despicable corruption of government programs in Minnesota, with most of the fraud apparently being committed by Somali immigrants. However, they are not the only people ripping off government programs and taxpayers:
1)Let’s start with a discussion reported by the Open The Books website:
According to Congressional reports, during 2024, Federal government entities tallied $161.5 billion in improper payments.
This consisted of taxpayer wealth being sent to the wrong entity, money sent in the wrong amount, or money sent for the wrong reason.
This information was tabulated and presented by the Office of Management and Budget last November.
But that was just in 2024.
According to the analysis, Biden presided over $825.7 billion in wasted, criminal fraud, criminal abuse, and duplicative payments in his four years as President.
When adjusted for inflation, Biden had the worst performance in improper payments of any President since record keeping began in 2004.
He set a record in 2021 when a whopping $281.4 billion was sent out improperly .
Medicare was the worst culprit in misspending taxpayer wealth with a 7.7% mistake rate
$3.6 billion of Covid funds were sent to dead people.
Another day, another almost trillion dollars wasted by inefficient, ineffective, and criminally corrupted government programs.
2)But the Open The Books article discussed apparently did not cover the following Medicaid corruption and incompetency:
Ten years ago, Judicial Watch found that Medicaid sent $26 million in benefits to dead people in a single state.
A recent Federal government audit found that this type of wasteful spending still exists in Washington.
For example, Illinois sent over $9.5 million of Medicaid funds to inmates in Illinois prisons.
Since 2016 the inspector general of Health and Human Services found that Medicaid processes had made $289 million in improper payments to dead people.
But the payments to dead people are dwarfed by the overall Medicaid fraud and waste since the Government Accountability Office found that in 2024 about $31 billion in bad payments.
So the fraud we have discussed in detail previously was not limited to Minnesota, it is a national problem of ineptness and stupidity.
3)A Federal government prosecutor, Bill Essayli, recently accused the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, of failing to properly oversee state government spending on homeless programs in the state. The focus is on an allegation that $24 billion was lost via corruption and incompetence in several state government homeless housing public programs.
This is not the first time that California programs have been suspected of being infested with fraud. During Covid when unemployment claims spiked, the government programs were not ready to cope with the surge which could have resulted in fraud totalling at least $10 billion in bad unemployment claims.
4)But it is not just street criminals, Somali immigrants, and organized crime gangs that defraud taxpayer funded government programs:
A Georgia state representative, Karen Bennett, was recently indicted by a grand jury.
She is alleged to have made false statements related to Covid unemployment benefits back in the days of the pandemic.
Apparently she claimed her in-home therapy business, Metro Therapy Solutions, was closed because of the pandemic and she applied for and received $13,040 in government benefits.
However, the business was mostly open during the pandemic and thus, she was not entitled to the payout.
She also allegedly failed to mention on her Covid benefit form that she was working at another job during Covid.
But she is not alone in Georgia fraud since another state lawmaker, Sharon Henderson, is facing Federal charges that include theft of government funds and making false statements relative to getting pandemic benefits.
Sad when the gatekeepers of taxpayer wealth are also the alleged pilferers of taxpayer wealth.
So what did learn about government corruption today: politicians in at least one state are guilty of corruption, California has lost tens of billions of dollars via criminal corruption in their government programs, and the Federal government has lost billions and billions of dollars by sending money to dead people, sending money to people in prison, and assorted other ways to waste away taxpayer wealth.
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