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)A lot of the fraud schemes we have reviewed over the past months seemed to be focused on Covid, Medicare,and Medicaid. But that does not mean people are not trying to defraud other government programs:
The United States Department of Agriculture believes that fraudsters could be ripping off the government and taxpayers for as much as $12 billion in the SNAP/food stamp program.
The Feds recently busted 17 different criminal networks for stealing SNAP funds across seven states that allegedly stole $350 million dollars from the SNAP program.
One scheme allegedly involved Rajaie Ahmad Ali and others who ran a Kwik Stop in Miami.
The plan involved legitimate SNAP recipients selling their SNAP benefits at a discount to Ali and others who then pocketed the difference between the face value and what they bought the benefits for after submitting almost $20 million in fraudulent transactions at their store cash register.
Two of his co-conspirators are foreign nationals and he was supposed to have been deported years ago but was allowed to continue to defraud in the face of possible deportation.
The defrauding started in 2019 and went on for years before someone noticed that a single Kwik Stop store maybe is not really doing $20 million worth of SNAP business.
Unreal lack of audit controls in the disbursing of taxpayer money.
2)A few more busted fraud schemes from around the country:
In Alabama, a tax preparer filed thousands of fraudulent energy tax returns and defrauded the government of $70 million.
In Mississippi, a Federal government employee with the Small Business Administration and a former IRS employee used the government’s disaster loan approval process to defraud the government of $11.5 million.
In Louisiana, former police officers forged fake crime reports to help foreigners get US visas and charged $5,000 for each fake crime victim.
Inmates at a Federal prison in Mississippi ran a fraud operation from inside the prison walls, using stolen identities to collect $4.3 million in fraudulent unemployment and disaster loan payments.
Illegal immigrants from Romania in North Carolina operated a mulrti-state SNAP fraud scheme, robbing legitimate families in need.
The CEO of a charter school in Louisiana diverted Federal education funds into his family's pockets in addition to purchasing high end cars and vacationing in Egypt.
South Carolina’s anti-fraud effort has already discovered a single Medicaid fraud that defrauded taxpayers of $20 million.
The Louisiana attorney general recently announced that she has convicted more than 100 fraudsters and recovered $73 million in stolen funds.
Good news all around, the government via JD Vance’s anti-fraud taskforce is finally doing what it should have been doing for the past several decades: protecting the hard earned tax dollars that honest Americans entrusted to the political class, a trust that was obviously abused and ignored until now.
3)Let’s go out to Oregon for the fraud shenanigans that foreign nationals have been using to steal taxpayer wealth:
Two men in Oregon have been charged for allegedly stealing over $17 million from Medicare, veterans' programs and private insurers.
One of the alleged perps was a citizen of Pakistan and the other was reportedly an Iranian.
The money was stolen under the cover of billing Medicare for genetic testing but the tests were never done, just billed.
U.S. Attorney Bradford summed up this disgusting behavior: “Health care fraud inflates costs, restricts access to critical services, and siphons taxpayer dollars from senior citizens, people with disabilities, low-income families, veterans, and others who rely on these federal programs.”
In all our conversations about defrauding the American taxpayer, a large number of the fraudsters are like these two in Oregon: foreign citizens that are here either legally or illegally. Another reason why Biden’s immigration policies were a disaster, white collar immigrants criminals figured out how to defraud government programs quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
4)But the fraud, as we have discussed, is a transcontinental program as we move from the west coast and Oregon to the east coast and Maine:
Speaking recently in the state of Maine,Vance proclaims that Maine is a top ten state from a fraud perspective.
As an example, he discussed the case of illegal immigrant Rakiya Mohamed.
She defrauded Medicaid of $15 million over five years by claiming to use translation services.
$15 million over 5 years comes out to $3 million a year to about $58,000 a WEEK on average for translation services.
And despite this ridiculous billing rate, she got away with it for five years.
Fraud is everywhere and previous Presidential administrations let it flourish without minimal downsize risk.
5)The Vance anti-fraud effort recently returned to California, probably the worst state for the defrauding of government programs:
Due to the widespread fraud in the state, the Federal government has blocked $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements until the governor and the state government clean up the Medicaid mess in the state.
Vance said the reasons for the stopping of fraud were pretty simple: “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.”
MehMet Oz, the head of the Medicare and Medicaid effort at the Federal government added: “We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent. Today, we announce 800 of those hospices have been suspended. 800 hospices that last year charged the federal taxpayer $1.4 billion will no longer be paid.”
90% of those suspended hospices have not appealed their suspension, indicating that they were likely fronts for fraud and were not providing legit Medicare aid and support.
Hundreds and hundreds of bogus Medicare entities that have been stealing taxpayer money for years and nobody in the state of California did nothing to stop it. Disgusting lack of respect for taxpayers' wealth.
Enough fraud talk for today, so depressing that our dollars were allowed to be wasted from coast to coast. No wonder our taxes are high and the national debt is about $40,000,000,000,000.
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