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)Let’s start today’s fraud discussion out in Arizona:
Two men from Arizona have been accused of overseeing and operating a Medicaid fraud scheme that stole more than $60 million from American taxpayers.
The accusations claim that they took the millions of stolen dollars and routed the money through a Phoenix area church and eventually sent millions of dollars overseas to Rwanda.
They submitted bills to Medicaid for people that were “dead, incarcerated, or hospitalized” without their knowledge.
The two men are facing a 51 count indictment.
More than 20 other individuals have been named as defendants in the fraud.
The fraud stretched out about four years, beginning in 2022 and despite stealing tens of millions of dollars, no one noticed until 2025.
A trial is set for January, 2027 when the alleged fraudsters will face a court case. Another day, another state whose Medicaid operations were easy to defraud of untold millions of dollars.
2)Katie Wilson is the mayor of Seattle. In our other continuing series of discussions, “The Race To Bankruptcy Court,” Wison has dramatically taken the city of Seattle to the top of our list of the cities most likely to go bankrupt first. Her inability to govern and lack of common sense are amazing and the city of Seattle and its residents are paying a high financial and quality of life price.
But from a government fraud perspective, she has outdone herself. Early in her term, when asked if she would investigate the potential government program defrauding that was going on within the Seattle /Somalia community, she said that she would not even investigate the fraud likelihood and irregularities that journalists had uncovered. Better to protect Somali immigrants stealing taxpayer money than to protect taxpayer wealth. Obscene priorities.
And it appears that she is actually protecting people in her city stealing taxpayer wealth:
It has come to light that Seattle daycare centers being run by Somali immigrants are apparently defrauding taxpayers.
Journalist Katie Daviscourt physically walked to more than 20 licensed daycare centers in the Somali neighborhoods of Seattle.
At every location, no kids were found to be present or receiving daycare services.
But public records show that these daycare centers had stolen millions of dollars for providing no service to any kids, with some of the centers getting upwards of a whopping $70,000 a month.
Neighbors living close to the centers told her they had NEVER seen any kids go in or out of the addresses listed as daycare centers.
And yet, Mayor Wilson refuses to investigate even though Ms. Daviscourt has done a lot of the necessary background work and investigation. Pathetic respect for taxpayer dollars.
3)Judicial Watch recently reported on some of the other fraud going on:
The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has identified at least $17.5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid scams in one year in a recent audit report.
Judicial Watch summarized the Treasury report that showed the scams were present in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and U.S. territories like Guam.
The largest number of scams were in California (3,141 scams), Florida 1,368, NewYork (989) and Minnesota (946).
Given population totals, Minnesota by far has the most scams per capita, which is not surprising given how many times Minnesota has shown up in our fraud posts.
Specifically from the report: “Health care fraud imposes enormous costs on U.S. taxpayers, increases the overall cost of health care in the United States, and puts patients at risk.”
The audit covered the timeframe from March, 2025 through February, 2026 and included such scams as money laundering, hospice scams, bogus mental, childcare and addiction treatment center operations etc.
The stolen taxpayer funds were then used to buy luxury vehicles, real estate, personal purchases, and sometimes transferred dollars overseas.
In one case cited in the report, $25 million was sent to a fake Alaska dentist office for dental work that was never done on patients that did not exist.
A fake Minnesota adult daycare registered at a boarded up store front scammed taxpayers for $870,000.
A fake Pennsylvania hospice business got $330,000 that was used to pay the hospice owner’s credit card bills and personal expenses.
Lots of money going missing from all over the country.
4)As always, we almost always end up in Minnesota when it comes to taxpayer fraud:
A taxpayer funded program was created to support Minnesota businesses who were negatively impacted by the immigration enforcement in the state a number of months ago.
Hennepin County in the state had set aside $2 million for supporting those local businesses.
The program was stopped when over 200 of the first 300 business applications looked suspicious/invalid.
However, $500,000 was disbursed before the program was stopped.
The organization in charge of screening the applications found submissions that seemed to be generated by artificial intelligence with nearly identical applications created under different business names.
Unbelievable that one state could be so infected with government program fraud of just about any government, taxpayer funded organization.
That will do it for today. More fraud from every corner of the country. So unreal that such widespread fraud went on unabated and unchecked for so many years. An abject failure of the American political class.
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