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)Our fraud journey has not taken to the southern part of the country…until today:
An analysis from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White found that illegal immigrants in the state had at least $10.5 million in Medicaid expenses improperly spent on them between 2023 and 2025.
Specifically: “If this money had gone to benefit lawful citizens, it could have reduced our taxes, paid our teachers, paid our police officers—frankly, anything would be better than serving as a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States, Mississippi taxpayers deserve to know the cost of illegal immigrants in our state, even if it makes some folks uncomfortable. My team will always tell you how your money in being spent, warts and all.”
The audit found that Mississippi's Medicaid program failed to report expenditures for care of illegal immigrants as required by Medicaid law.
Thus, it appears that defrauding the taxpayer is not restricted to California, that government fraud spans the country.
2)Let’s move north to St. Louis for the next episode of taxpayer fraud:
The leader of a St. Louis' non-profit organization that was supposed to be feeding hungry children actually skimmed money from the nonprofit for her own personal use and enjoyment.
She stole $2.3 million and spent it on luxury cars, designer clothes, vacations, and multiple homes for herself.
Cymone McClellan was sentenced to 41 months in Federal prison for the stealing of the $2.3 million from the USDA child meal programs after she pleaded guilty..
She claimed that her non-profit served 860,876 meals to needy and hungry kids but in reality served less than 215,000 meals, diverting the 75% of fake meal money to herself.
She and a co-conspirator were both ordered to forfeit assets and repay stolen money.
Another example where the government and the politicians that are supposed to be overseeing the spending of taxpayer funds were lax, inept, and as a result, more millions of taxpayer wealth was scammed. Fortunately, this scammer got caught. But who knows how many others are still getting away with depriving needy kids of the meals that they were supposed to receive.
3)Let’s return to Minnesota where the whole uncovering of fraud got started through the efforts of Nick Shirley:
Recently, the FBI and other government law enforcement agencies executed at least 22 search warrants in Minnesota in search of fraud.
"Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation," a Justice Department spokesperson said.
The search warrants were all geared to uncover operations involved in defrauding government programs.
The raids were looking for potential criminal activity related to Covid programs, child care services, and Medicaid.
Looks like Nick Shilrey really stirred up quite the hornets nest of criminal activity in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
4)Let’s head south again, this time to Louisiana:
According to NewsMax, Alice Wallace, the mayor of Winnsboro, Louisiana, was recently arrested.
She is accused of allegedly siphoning off tens of thousands of taxpayer funds for her own use.
She faces six counts of allegedly stealing about $75,000 in Medicaid funds between 2021 and 2026.
The state department of health noticed irregularities in billing and referred their findings to the attorney general’s office which eventually led to the arrest.
The alleged scheme involved Wallace concealing important financial information that would have impacted her Medicaid status including income changes, marital status, and other personal info.
Most of the fraud began when she became mayor which carried enough salary and taxpayer health insurance benefits to disqualify her from getting benefits.
Makes you wonder if anyone at the Medicaid operation in DC actually knew how to do their job and had any clue to what was going on as the Medicaid fraud network becomes obvious across the country, from Louisiana to Minnesota to California and probably many points in between.
That will do it for today: fraud in Mississippi, fraud Missouri, fraud in Minnesota, and fraud in Louisiana.
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