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)This is our fourth post on government fraud and it seems we cannot get away from talking Minnesota and fraud in the same sentence:
A grocer in Minnesota could go to prison for a couple of decades as a result of allegedly running a food stamp fraud scheme.
The food stamp program is now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The scheme may have defrauded the government and American taxpayers of over $1.1 million in food stamp/SNAP fraud.
The grocer is charged with taking stolen food SNAP cards to make large purchases at Costco using different cards.
He then took his Costco purchases to his own grocery store for sale, i.e. taxpayers were purchasing his inventory.
Specifically, the grocer incurred $1,141,082 in illegal SNAP purchases.
According to Federal investigators, Minnesota is not the only SNAP defrauding going on with similar networks of SNAP abusers having been identified in at least six states and Puerto Rico.
Let's hope those fraudsters operating in all states abusing the SNAP program meet the same fate as this grocer in Minnesota.
2)Let’s head down to North Carolina for the first time in our fraud discussions:
The Medicaid program North Carolina has experienced a 47,000% increase in autism therapy billings over the past five years.
After five years and a 47,000% increase the state government finally decided that maybe, just maybe there is something shady going on.
State auditor, Dave Boliek, recently announced that autism billings via Medicaid in the state increased from $1.4 million in 2020 to about $660 million five years later.
Specifically: “Those are vital services to folks and individuals that need that therapy. But when you have, like in North Carolina, a system that went from $1.4 million or so in total billings for autism therapy to more than $660 million a year in billings on autism therapy within a five-year range, that begs an audit.”
It is expected that the $660 million a year will get to $1.1 billion if the fraud and trend are not reversed according to a state government report.
The number of autism cases filed via the Medicaid program more than tripled from 3,844 in 2022 to over 13,000 in 2025.
Boliek went on to state the obvious: “We’ve got to pour jet fuel on artificial intelligence in the area of state auditing because the fraudsters are using AI. Every wasted dollar is a dollar that can’t be spent on a person who actually needs services.”
You get the feeling that we may hit every state before we exhaust all the fraud reports and arrests that are starting to happen around the country.
3)RFK Jr. is the head of the Health and Human Service Department (HHS). He recently discussed what types of fraud he is witnessing and investigating relative to hospice:
He was testifying in front of a Congressional committee.
He was questioned by Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne relative to hospice fraud in Los Angeles, a fraud scheme we have already discussed.
One of the discussion points was relative to a single address location in LA, 14545 Friar Street.
That single address has over 100 separate hospice licenses associated with that location.
This likely fraud operator question had previously been asked of Biden’s HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, but nothing was done to address this obvious fraud operation.
RFK responded by pointing out that the Federal government has already closed down a mind boggling 500 bogus hospice operations.
He pointed out that many of the shut down bogus hospices were existing only on paper with no viable physical presences.
The fraud generally involved paying local residents to enroll in the fake hospice services and then bill Medicaid for the residents.
In real hospice operations, the average stay is just over two weeks before the resident passes away, but apparently those registered in the bogus hospice operations rarely died, certainly not expected of real hospice patients.
It is amazing that those that were in charge of these programs never moved to shut down the bogus criminal operations, be it a multitude of hospices in LA having the same physical address or the exploding number of autism cases in North Carolina. Incompetence or in cahoots with the fraudsters?
4)Jay Swanson is a former state trooper and criminal investigator in Minnesota. He recently testified in front of Congress and what he had to say is very distressing:
He claimed to have been responsible for investigating the massive child care fraud that has since come to light in Minnesota.
However, his most distressing claim is that the fraud he uncovered was not just ignored but was actively suppressed.
He says his supervisors pressured him to delete findings or soften his findings of fraud and abuse of the child care funding process.
In just one example he says a senior government official confronted him and demanded that he retract statements he had made to state auditors, an action that Swanson says would have been against the law.
He testified that investigators like him were undermined and that an outside consultant was hired at a price of $90,000 to refute the fraud findings he and others had uncovered.
Republican Congressional members say that oversight and audit functions in the state were scaled back or eliminated altogether after governor Tim Walz took office.
The fact that dozens and dozens of people have since been arrested in connection with child care fraud in the state reinforces his testimony’s validity.
Thus, a possible answer to our question: were government employees and politicians too inept and ignorant to recognize the massive amount of fraud that was going on under their noses or did they somehow benefit, financially or politically, by keeping the fraud going. Mr. Swanson appears to support the latter possibility.
Minnesota, North Carolina, California and elsewhere, the amount of fraud continues to boggle the mind.
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