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)We have focused a lot on the fraud in the states of Minnesota and California, those two states have gotten the majority of the criminal fraud headlines lately. But those are not the only two states where fraudsters are ripping off taxpayers:
Mehek Cooke, a senior national security and legal analyst with the Daily Signal, recently asserted that Ohio is also experiencing major government fraud.
She said the fraud she uncovered was connected to home health care.
She visited almost 100 Ohio locations that claimed to be home health care centers and found that these companies were probably not providing home health care via Medicaid.
Specifically: “So, when you knock on doors, most of these people are in the Somalian community. They don’t speak English, so I’m wondering how they’re even providing services. It’s hidden behind closed doors.”
Apparently the fraud she found was concentrated in particular geographic areas with one county, Franklin County, accounting for 38% of all Ohio home health care spending and 40% of that 38% concentrated in just two zipcodes.
Her logical question for government overseers: “At some point, the state has to ask, what’s going on in these two ZIP codes? But they didn’t. Our governor came out and said it’s the cost of doing business.”
Nice attitude right, especially since a Daily Wire investigation found that in one case there were 288 separate home health care companies registered at the same address.
Other so-called home health care provider locations were abandoned, rundown, or showed no visible signs of health care services.
Another day, another state infested with fake companies ripping off the taxpayer. A very disturbing part of these scams is how obvious they are, e.g. almost 300 fake companies getting taxpayer support but having the same address. And the current sitting governor and political state bureaucracy did not notice or did not care.
2)Let’s head back up to Minnesota where more fraud is being uncovered:
Federal law enforcement entities allege that a criminal plan tied to autism-service billing was bilking Medicaid.
Allegedly, fake autism service companies paid parents to enroll their non-autism kids in non-existent autism services, then billed the government for services not provided.
And then moved the fraudulently obtained taxpayer funds to foreign countries such as Kenya.
A single company, Smart therapy LLC, alone billed the government for $14 million.
In total, it is believed the autism scam received $46 million in taxpayer funds with $21.2 million coming out of Medicaid.
Another possible fraud scam that leverages kids. The Feeding Our Future fraud in Minnesota leveraged hungry kids. This fraud leverages phantom autism kids. Disgusting.
3)Staying in Minnesota:
Federal law enforcement allege that a Minneapolis daycare owner with days to the massive Feeding Our Future scam has now been charged with a separate fraud scheme.
The owner, Fahima Egeh Mahamud, has been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government via the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).
CCAP is supposed to help with day care costs for low income households.
The indictments assert that as the CEO of Future Leaders Early learning, she filed more than a whopping 13,000 bogus claims in a three year period totaling $4.6 million.
Her connection to the Feeding Our Future fraud apparently involved her allegedly claiming she enrolled her daycare center in a Federal government nutrition program and then falsely asserted she had served thousands of meals.
Since we somehow keep ending up in Minnesota, how inept was the governor, the state attorney general, the state legislature and state government bureaucracy so inept or inattentive (or were actually profiting from the fraud) not to have seen what was going on, especially since many, many whistle blower government employees had pointed out the fraud over the years.
4)But it is not just low-lifes that leverage kids’ meal and health needs to get rich off of government programs:
A sitting Congresswoman, Sheila Cherfillus-McCromick, has been indicted on 15 Federal government counts for allegedly and illegally laundering $5 million in FEMA covid funds.
Specifically she is accused of taking the covid funds, directing them through her family business and then into her political campaign account.
The charges against her include theft of government funds, money laundering, straw donor violations, and tax fraud.
Three cohorts in the scheme were also indicted.
The screwy thing about this fraud is that the original fraud started when the Congresswoman's family health care business received an incorrect payment from FEMA.
Rather than receive a $50,000 payment for services, FEMA incorrectly sent her company $5 million for her contract, all of which the Congresswoman kept rather than return to FEMA.
She faces up to 53 years in jail if guilty on all charges.
Unbelievably poor leadership, ethics, and behavior from a sitting member of Congress.
The list of fraud is varied and despicable: home health care fraud, feeding kids fraud, fake kids autism fraud, and Congressional member fraud. The fraud across all government programs is remarkable and until recently, nobody in the political class seemed to care about cleaning it up. Which makes one think that they were profiting from the fraud one way or another, and disrespecting the tax dollars they collect from hard working Americans.
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