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 talked a lot about Medicaid fraud and Covid fraud recently but let’s start this post with yet another type of fraud infesting government programs:
Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently warned that illegal employment and payroll tax activities have created more than $2.5 billion in suspicious activity so far in 2026.
Specifically: “These schemes hurt law-abiding businesses, depress wages, steal taxpayer dollars, facilitate identity theft, and create opportunities for transnational criminal organizations to generate and move illicit proceeds.”
He maintains that a lot of this possible employment fraud is related to illegal immigration and immigrants.
The Treasury Department recently sent out communications to the financial world warning that criminal organizations and drug cartels are probably involved in the alleged fraud
The schemes include payroll tax evasion, shell companies, labor brokers, identity theft and other illegal labor activities.
Bessent said the government will be working with banks to eliminate some of the fraud schemes.
Another day, another way to defraud the government.
2)Florida recently announced that it will be cracking down on state Medicaid providers:
Siobhan Harris, secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA): “Florida’s Medicaid program covers nearly 4 million recipients here in our state, highlighting the importance of protecting the program for the people who rely on it.”
She shared an example in just a single Florida town, West Palm Beach, where the state claims that over a dozen bogus operations signed up as Medicaid providers that were providing no medical care to anyone.
Some of the operations had shared addresses which pointed to bogus operations and a neighbor of one address reported that the bogus operation was active for about only a week.
Apparently Florida has been much more active in stopping fraud since the AHCA has denied Medicaid enrollment to more than 3,200 operations that claimed they were providing health care over the past few years.
Part of the effort is to make sure all Medicaid providers go through a rigorous reevaluation process in the next 1-2 years.
Harris claims that the ACHA efforts have saved over $136 million in fraud recovery and prevention efforts.
Harris: “I have one message for those who aim to fabricate their provider credentials, hide behind a shell company, or steal from Florida’s most vulnerable residents. We’re coming for you.”
As opposed to the stonewalling and hiding of the fraud in Minnesota by its state government and politicians, Florida is at least trying to repent and recover government funds that have been stolen.
3)Many criminals are not that smart. Some are very smart but many just do not have the brains to get away with crime for a prolonged period of time, as the following criminals show relative to defrauding government programs:
Government investigators are turning to monitoring social media posts of criminals to identify and then go after the fraudsters who are bragging about stealing government funds via their online social media posts.
One Massachusetts idiot bragged about stealing $1.5 million and spending the money on luxury purchases.
The culprit pleaded guilty once arrested for the $1.5 million steal.
CBS reported on another person who bragged about “living like a king” on the stolen taxpayer wealth.
These posts are useful in obtaining search warrants that eventually lead to prosecutions.
Prosecutors use the social media posts to subpoena bank records and purchases of luxury items to make their case for fraud.
Still no cure for stupid: you are stealing government funds, no one is suspicious of your illegal activities, and these folks brag about what they did. Thankfully they do brag, and makes the recovery of government funds that much easier.
4)More fraud uncovered in Minnesota:
Two Minnesota residents, Shamso Hassan and Hanaan Mursal, were recently arrested and charged with allegedly stealing $21 million of Medicaid funds.
They were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security.
They were using the autism angle for the fraud.
According to the Department of Homeland Security: “Hassan was a beneficial owner of Smart Therapy Center LLC and Star Autism Center LLC. She had enrolled as a provider of services for the Minnesota Early Intensive Development and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) Program, and was an employee and lead biller for Smart Therapy Center LLC, responsible for submitting claims to Medicaid. Through both companies, the defendants carried out a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program of approximately $21.1 million by submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicaid. This scheme took place over the course of more than four years, from May of 2020 to December of 2024.”
The alleged perpetrators paid parents fees ranging from $300 to $1,500 a month to have their children enrolled in their companies' bogus autism programs and services that they then billed Medicaid for.
Some of the money they stole ended up in Kenya.
5)The FBI recently published its new top ten criminal list, the “Most Wanted Fraudsters.” And fortunately, it recently arrested an alleged fraudster on that list, which, of course, happened in Minnesota, a state that is becoming "Fraud Central” of the country:
This fraud case was related to defrauding one of the most ill run government programs of all time, Covid.
The arrested suspect allegedly stole more than $4.2 million and of course, used the fund for personal luxury purchases and foreign money transfers.
Those funds were supposed to be used to feed children during the Covid pandemic.
The arrested individual is a former grocery and deli owner in Minneapolis who defrauded within the infamous “Feeding Our Future” fraud scandal.
He claimed he served 1.4 million meals in 12 months and then billed the government program for $4.2 million.
This comes out to an amazing 3,800 or so bogus meals a day for a year, a number that was likely impossible from a deli owner.
And yet, he got away with the fraud until caught four years later.
The arrested suspect was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.
The suspect turned himself in once he became aware he was on the most wanted fraudster list.
Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said that seven Minnesota state programs that managed Federal government funds were "systematically pilfered” for their own personal use, of which this was one of the worst.
The never ending fraud in Minnesota, Florida aggressively attacks the fraud problem (unlike Tim Walz and his posse of losers in Minnesota), Treasury steps up its fraud tracking, and social media trips up the dumber fraudsters.
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