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)For whatever reason, including the reality that independent journalist Nick Shirley uncovered massive fraud in the state, Minnesota continues to jump to the head of the list when it comes to massive and unique fraud conditions and schemes:
The main schemer in an alleged Medicaid fraud in the state, a fraud that possibly drained $11 million from taxpayers, has disappeared.
Abdirashid Ismail Said failed to appear at his county court hearing and forfeited his $150,000 bond in the process.
I guess that if one actually did scam $11 million, forfeiting a $150,000 bond is no big deal.
Although he had been flagged as a flight risk, seeing that his wife and child lived outside of the country, he was still let go by a judge in the state and now no one knows where he is.
He is/was facing multiple charges of defrauding Medicaid including racketeering, perjury, and aiding and abetting theft by a swindle.
To add insight to injury to the judge and court who let him go despite the evidence of an $11 million swindle, he had previously been convicted in 2021 for theft by swindle.
At least one of his alleged accomplices has also gone missing.
Unbelievable incompetence. Even when the Minnesota state government and judicial system actually go after fraudsters, they then let them walk out the door, millions of taxpayer dollars unaccounted for as are the whereabouts of at least two involved in the alleged scheme.
2)JD Vance is heading up the Federal government effort to FINALLY go after those ripping off taxpayer funded government programs. He recently gave an update on the new effort to finally go after the defrauding criminals: "In just two months, we exposed billions of dollars in benefits that have been stolen from the American people. We referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California."
Not bad for two months of work. Consider what $22 billion means in human terms:
There are about 770,000 homeless Americans living on the country’s streets today.
The average cost of a nutritious meal at American food banks is about $2.94 a meal.
Thus, simple math would say if that $22 billion had been efficiently spent on feeding America’s homeless, it would have fed every homeless person three meals a day for almost 9 years.
This is the human cost of government fraud beyond the criminal cost. I am sure most taxpayers would rather have their taxes spent on those in need than the criminal elements that pervade every government program that exists today.
3)Ilhan Omar is a Congresswoman from, where else, Minnesota. She is an immigrant from Somalia. Perhaps it is a coincidence but a lot of those found guilty or who pleaded guilty in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud in the state were also Somali immigrants. Consider what the good Congresswoman may have been involved in:
In a previous fraud post we discussed the reality that the mastermind behind the Feeding Our Future fraud was named Aimee Bock.
She was the founder and executive director of the Feeding Our Future organization that executed the fraud.
She ended up getting sentenced to over 40 years in prison for stealing almost $250 million in taxpayer funds.
In a jailhouse interview with the New York Post, she referred to Congresswoman Omar when she told the post: "I struggle to believe that she wouldn't have known" about the fraud that was going on.”
She related how fraud operators worked directly with Omar’s staff in order to keep the taxpayer money flowing: "There were a lot of people that had been reaching out to her office and staff – and I presume her personally – to work through some of those gaps with the waivers."
Again, maybe a coincidence but Omar sponsored/wrote legislation that loosened reporting and audit requirements on government programs, a primary cause of the massive fraud that has been going on in her home state. Remember, we previously discussed the real possibility that a Florida Congresswoman allegedly stole $5 million of government program money so it is not unprecedented that a member of Congress from Minnesota, or anywhere, is also involved in fraud.
Oh,one last fraud tidbit from Minnesota. A former campaign staffer for Omar, Guhaad Hashi Said, has already pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. He operated a fake food site within the Feeding Our Future scam that collected almost $3 million taxpayer dollars by claiming to have served over one million meals
4)But it is not just Medicaid and feeding programs that steal taxpayer wealth:
A Navy technology insider has been accused of steering over two-dozen Navy contracts to a favored contractor that ended up doing little or none of the contracted work specs.
The president of the contracting company has pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud and is facing a 48 month prison sentence.
The contractor received between $550,000 or upwards of $1.5 million for doing minimal work for the Navy.
Apparently the scheme worked as follows: the Navy tech guy arranged for the company, Intellipeak, to be paid more than $16 million to perform work for the Navy but rather than perform the work, Intellipeak passed the work along to other shadow companies before skimming 6-8% share of the money for themselves.
Thus, the entire competitive bidding for the best contractor was bypassed, not only defrauding the taxpayer but quite possibly giving the necessary work to who knows who, definitely a potential quality issue.
Apparently this type of shell game scamming is quite common in military and non-military contracting work where a false front company wins the job and then lets some other to be determined companies actually do the work for a fee to the false front company.
Fortunately this scam was uncovered, prosecuted and people are going to jail for the fraud.
Thus, another chapter in defrauding the government, military contracts. Makes your wonder if any Federal government department or entity is not being defrauded of taxpayer wealth since in just the past three posts we now know that the military, Medicaid, food programs, Congress, autism programs, and student loan programs are seeing massive fraud within their programs.
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