Saturday, July 25, 2026

July, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 3: A Cocaine Peddling Massachusetts Government Employee, Chicago Spends Almost $700 Million On Illegal Immigrants, and Walz Protects A Child Rapist

 We have spent a lot of our recent posts about which state or city will go bankrupt first and the massive fraud that has been going on relative to government programs. But that does not mean that the potential class has been up to its traditional incompetence, insanity,  and screw ups. So, let’s catch up with  the shenanigans that continue to plague the country:


1)Government fraud is not only done  by criminals  outside of the the government but  sometimes government employees also  do the stealing  of taxpayer wealth:


  • According to  reporting by the Blabberbuzz  website, a  former senior employee of  Massachusetts governor, Maura  Healey, has  been  charged for  allegedly operating a "major cocaine trafficking  ring” out  of his taxpayer funded workplace  office.

  • LaMarr Cook  served as deputy director of Healey's Western Massachusetts  office.

  • State police  allegedly intercepted eight kilograms of  cocaine that Cook  tried unsuccessfully  to ship to his government  office.

  • However, despite  the seriousness of his  crime, he was given a token  bail of  only $25,000.

  • But the Boston Herald then reported that he vacationed  in Disneyworld using Federal government SNAP food allocations.

  • I guess being arrested for being  a major cocaine supplier  does not invalid  you from getting  Federal government food support.

  • But it gets worse: after his  arrest, the Healey administration gave him $31,000  of taxpayer wealth that the government  had  been "mistakenly  paid out.”

  • No word if the mistaken payout was corrected and the money clawed back.


Government  fraud and insane wasting of taxpayer  funds comes from all directions including  fraud associated with alleged cocaine peddling government employees.


2)There are a lot of Americans suffering in the city of Chicago today:


  • There are  about 58,000 homeless Americans currently in the city.

  • There were 835 drug overdose deaths in the  city last year so there has to be thousands of city residents that need drug addiction  treatment.

  • There have been 686 shootings in the city this year, a 4% increase over  last year at this time and a total of 858 shooting victims.

  • In  June  alone,  there were 139 shootings and 43  homicides.

  • Over 500,000  residents, about 25% of  the population,  are living with  food insecurity.


Obviously, a  load  of city residents are indeed of support and care. So what have the politicians  of the city been  spending  a  lot of money  on over the past few years in spite of their residents’ suffering:


  • According to  reporting by the Chicago Sun times,  the city inspector  general  recently did a  deep dive into  city finances  and accounting to see  how  money was being  spent relative to  the thousands and  thousands  of illegal immigrants that had come to the sanctuary city of Chicago over the past few years.

  • He was investigating whether proper accounting procedures had been  followed in funding illegal  immigrant support  but the numbers he  compiled are  amazing and disgusting relative  to illegal immigrants.

  • Chicago politicians spent a  whopping $639.6 million for the support of illegal immigrants during the first 18 months of  Mayor Brandon Johnson's term.

  • Before Biden let  millions of illegal immigrants into the country, thousands  of which headed  toward the sanctuary city of Chicago, the city had only 3,000 beds  for homeless folks.

  • The  city had to open up 38 emergency shelters just to handle the flood of illegal immigrants.

  • But that was not enough  and the city had  to  put  up  temporary shelters in  police stations  and  the two main city  airports.


It was  amazing how fast city politicians were  able to mobilize and get free housing, free  food,  free medical care and other  free services for illegal  immigrants and spend $639.6 million in the process. And yet, there are still hundreds of thousands  of city residents who are homeless,  hungry, and in need medical attention even after the $639.6 million  of  taxpayer money was spent on non-Americans:


  • If you do  the math, that $639.6 million could have given every food-stressed American  in the city  three nutritious meals a day for  about 14 months but yet, 500,000 city residents are food insecure  today.

  • According to the government's Drug Abuse website, it costs on average about $6,600 to provide an  annual methadone treatment for opioid addiction per person.

  • Thus, theoretically, that $639.6 million  could have provided a year's opioid addiction support and treatment for just under 100,00 city residents and possibly reduced the  835  drug  addiction  deaths last year in the city.

  • The  $639.6 million  could have gotten the 58,000 homeless city residents  about two months in moderately  priced hotel rooms (assuming $200  a night) during the cold  Chicago winters and kept them safe for at  least a little while.

  • How  many more police officers and district attorneys could have been hired with that $640.6 million  to reduce the  violence and homicides in the  city? 


Thus, despite spending $639.6 million the residents of Chicago are still suffering.


3)Let’s stay with the illegal immigrant problem Biden created and much like the  idiocy the Chicago  politicians spending over $600 million  on illegal immigrants, consider  the idiocy of the Minnesota governor  relative  to  a dangerous illegal  immigrant:


  • Tou Lue Vang was an illegal immigrant from Laos.

  • He was convicted of repeatedly raping a young American girl over several years in Minnesota in 2006.

  • He had  illegally entered the country in 1994 and yet decades later he was  still in the country.

  • The  victim was only 10 years old when the raping began, raping that continued for four years.

  • Recently the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, gave Vang  clemency.

  • Fortunately, the Federal government stepped in and deported Vang  back to Laos, as  described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Under President Trump, criminal illegal aliens who rape children will be found, arrested, and removed — and Democrat politicians will not stand in the way.” 

  • But somehow Walz freaked out when the Feds deported this  child rapist even though he called Vang’s actions  “horrific.”

  • Lauren Bis, acting assistant  secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, was having  none of Walz.’s craziness: “Governor Tim Walz’s decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.” 


The insanity with this governor is strong. An illegal immigrant who repeatedly raped an American ten year old and  continued the  raping for four years is some how shown compassion by a failed governor.  


But yet another example where illegal immigrants,including  rapists, are  more important to Democrats and liberals than  the American citizen victims.


Enough  insanity for  today: protecting a child raping illegal  immigrant, lightning fast response to help illegal immigrants in a sanctuary city while Americans in the same sanctuary city suffer and get nothing, and an alleged cocaine  peddling state employee in Massachusetts  who gets a $35,000 taxpayer funded  exit gift.


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Thursday, July 23, 2026

Government Taxpayer Fraud and Corruption, Part 13: Tai Chi Fraud In New York, Unemployment Fraud In Maryland, More Medicaid Fraud In Minnesota and California 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)One of the most frequently violated government program with fraud is Medicaid. Given what we have already discussed on this topic,  over the years probably hundreds of billions of dollars have been defrauded out of the  program. But finally, the effort to root out and  block fraud in  this programs is finally getting underway with the following action one of the major remedies:


  • Robert Kennedy, Jr., the head  of Health and Human Services,  recently announced it is blocking the payment of  $1 billion  of taxpayer  funded Medicaid dollars to  the  two  states that we have proven are likely the most fraud  infested  of all states.

  • Kennedy:  “We are not sending Medicaid dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately.” 

  • Specifically, he cited California  Governor Gavin Newsom and Minnesota  Governor  Tim  Walz, stating that in  order for them to continue to get  Federal  government  Medicaid funding  “they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate.”

  • Kennedy accused the  Biden administration  of looking the other way  as  fraud,  waste, and abuse of taxpayer  dollars  went  unchecked.

  • Until the two states  clean  up their  acts and audit processes  to  prevent  more  fraud, they do not get $1 billion from the Federal government.

  • Minnesota has  to clean up 14 trouble areas in their government programs.

  • California Medicaid spending has been going up twice the  national  rate so  there is  a lot of  suspicion there also.

I continue to  wonder how governors could be  so  out  of touch and inept with the  government functions they are supposed to be operating efficiently and  effectively.


2)Fortunately, it seems like FINALLY just about every Federal government entity is finally getting  its act  together  and  rooting out  fraud and criminal activity:


  • Apparently,  the U.S.  Treasury Department has  instituted  a fraud detection system that identifies dead people who are still receiving government dollars.

  • The new fraud detection  system has  already found  over 4.900 government checks that were associated with dead check receivers.

  • Fortunately, the payments,  worth  $99 million, were stopped before they were  actually paid out.

  • Treasury also  announced  it has  rolled out a new government wide payment  verification system to stop federal  government programs from sending taxpayer dollars to  dead folks.

  • This approach is more  effective,, preventing  bogus checks from being  sent out in the  first place,  vs. a lot of the  current  government fraud  work that tries  to “claw back” bogus or criminal  payments after they were paid out.


Hopefully millions  if not billions of taxpayer dollars will not  erroneously be sent out in the  future with  this new  screening process.


3)Journalist Nick Shirley has to be credited  with starting this whole uncovering of incredible wasteful government spending and  fraud and he is still  at it,  this time identifying fraud in  New York City, and posting a video of his adventures  in uncovering this potentially massive fraud:


  • His latest videos have exposed the allegedly widespread Medicare fraud in  New York City involving elderly Korean and  Chinese residents of  the city.

  • Shirley:  “Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give kickbacks to those who enroll.”

  • Obviously, the purpose of Medicare funding was NOT  to support the  playing  of ping pong and doing tai chi,  it was meant to handle medical  situations  and payments.

  • In one  example from his  fraud  video, he goes to  a location in Queens New York that is receiving Medicare funding.

  • He claims that public records show that the facility serves a whopping, and unbelievable, 7,000 clients, for which they had billed Medicare about $1,600 per client, with  the conclusion  being

  •   that there are not 7,000 people attending one location in Queens to play ping pong and do Tai Chi.


Rather than  try to  explain all of the  other  nonsense and fraud he uncovered, go  to the following link  and see video excerpts of his work:


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/07/11/nick-shirleys-latest-fraud-video-is-another-gold-mine-n2679244?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=2030c51046b2ed1f27a94d5cb3859103c08feb40c10c11004600bb4d138897af&lctg=18183567

4)Fraud and  incompetence sometimes look a lot  alike but whatever they look like, it always ends up wasting taxpayer wealth:

  • Multhomah County is in Oregon which includes the city of Portland.

  • Apparently, the  county government folks  lost track of hundreds of  gift cards worth $115,000.

  • The gift cards were part of  a program that was supposed to help homeless  drug addicts in the country.

  • After the cards were  “lost,” the Portland mayor, Keith Wilson, allegedly  asked neighboring counties to help replace the cards.

  • Why he thought that other counties would jump in and fund this incompetence is beyond reason.

  • Making  the situation even more inane, Multhomah  County chairperson, Vega  Pederson, praised the government  for its ”good practices” in identifying the screw up.

  • So, you screw up and  then praise yourself for  identifying the screw up?

Proving  again the political class incompetence and fraud isn't just Washington programs, even local politicians can abuse  taxpayer wealth.

5)Let’s go down to Maryland and show that this state is also not able to stop the defrauding of taxpayer programs:

  • Earlier  this  year the Maryland Office of Legislative  Audits released an analysis that showed  the state  government had overpaid $807.4 million in  unemployment benefits.

  • Even worse, $760  million of the total amount  was  deemed not recoverable.

  • Governor  Larry Hogan back in  2020 said there  was a “massive, sophisticated criminal enterprise"  that was using identity theft to submit  for  bogus unemployment benefits.

  • As an example, earlier this year three Maryland  residents were sentenced  to  multi-year prison sentences for stealing multiple victims' identities and then applying for unemployment benefits  using  the stolen names.

  • Two Maryland state residents with a Virginia cohort stole more than $300,000 using stolen  Social  Security numbers to  apply for  Covid unemployment benefits.

  • Three Baltimore  cousins got  six year prison  sentences for  similar schemes.

  • Adding insult to injury, the  Maryland residents who had their ids  stolen  and used  to defraud  are being  asked by the state government to  repay the  money the  fraudsters took since the fraudsters are  gone  but the legal interests  are not.


The  good news is that Maryland looks to be going  after the criminals stealing taxpayer wealth. The bad news: if the  governor  knew about these types  of fraud schemes six years ago, why were government audits and  controls not put in place  back in 2020 to stop the continuing  defrauding? More incompetence, even when the politicians  recognize the problem they don't fix the situation they allowed to come forth.


The unending fraud parade continues: unemployment fraud in Maryland, incompetence fraud in Oregon, ping pong and  tai chi fraud in New York, and the never-ending Medicaid  fraud in Minnesota  and California.

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