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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Government Tax Fraud and Corruption, Part 18: Paying Federal Employees Not To Work, Fraud Everywhere in the Country, Fraud In Medicaid/SNAP/Covid, and Now India

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)Much of the defrauding of the American taxpayer via porous government programs was carried out by non-government criminal suspects who did not work for the Federal government. But sometimes the fraud is because of stupid government programs:

The Federal government in 2025 apparently spent a whopping $9.5 billion paying employees on paid administrative leave.
This was the finding of a General Accountability Office report that also found that $6.7 billion of that was paid to non-working employees under the Deferred Resignation Program.
This $9.5 billion was 425% higher than two years prior and was driven by Trump’s government downsizing effort.
Once employees accepted the downsizing offer, they were kept on the payroll for months, sometimes up to eight months, while collecting salary and benefits but doing nothing.

Calling it a downsizing program is one way to describe it. But paying out $9.5 billion to employees who for months didn't have to do any work to get that money is in actuality the defrauding of the American taxpayer.

2)Let’s head out to one of the fraud capitals of the country, the state of California:

Recently, a dozen legal immigrants from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq were arrested for allegedly stealing $10 million from childcare funds in the San Diego area of California.
Those funds were provided by American taxpayers.
The alleged fraudsters claimed they were providing childcare for kids that did not exist.
According to the Federal government investigators: “These charges underscore a simple truth: anyone who steals from programs meant to support children will face swift and uncompromising accountability. Fraud against these programs is an attack on vulnerable families, and law enforcement will continue to dismantle schemes that exploit them. I want to thank the prosecutors and agents in the Southern District of California whose relentless work exposed this scheme and ensured that those responsible are being held accountable.”
One defendant, Abdulrahman Ayman Alawad claimed that he provided daycare to 23 kids in March, 2026 and 25 kids in April, 2026.
But authorities had been suspicious and had put the alleged daycare facility under video surveillance and saw that kids entered the daycare center only one day in 57 days of surveillance.
Not surprisingly, that one day where kids showed up was when a state government inspector was making an onsite audit visit.
Other defendants claimed they were providing daycare services in their homes even though they were physically out of the country.

Just another day in the fraud capital of the country, California.

3) The next example of fraud that has been uncovered is alleged to be a national network of fraudsters:

Seven people across the country were arrested for allegedly operating a massive tax fraud conspiracy.
They were charged with stealing more than $8 million from American taxpayers by submitting $57 million in false IRS refunds in two years.
Those arrested came from Florida, Idaho, Illinois, California, and Georgia.
These folks allegedly filed hundreds of false tax returns to the IRS that tried to trigger refunds for businesses, people, and trusts that never existed.
These false tax refunds tried to get $57 million but they only got $8 million from the IRS.
Andrea and Kent Shannon of Idaho face charges that go beyond conspiracy and include the alleged use of illegally obtained IRS refunds which they then spent on luxury cars for themselves.
Chandler and Monika Skinger of Chicago were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Just the conspiracy charges could get these fraudsters up to twenty years in prison before other prison years levied if found guilty.

The fraud seems to never end and is spread out across the entire country.

4)The same day that the FBI unveiled its new, “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list, four people in Ohio were charged by Federal prosecutors:

They were charged with stealing $30 million from Medicaid by billing Medicaid for child mental health services that were never provided.
The alleged fraudsters then turned around and used the stolen taxpayer wealth to purchase luxury vehicles including a McLaren, a Bentley, six Mercedes-Benz cars, a BMW, a Jaguar, a Maserati, two Land Rovers, and a GMC.
False claims for services never performed were submitted by more than one fake company front.
Three seized bank accounts contained about $469,000.
The new FBI most wanted list included Said Abdullahi Ereg who is wanted for connection to allegedly defrauding the Federal Child Nutrition Program of $4.2 million during the Covid years,
Four other defendants were accused of stealing $1.4 million from the Covid Paycheck Protection Program.

It is amazing how many Covid programs were defrauded, apparently the Biden administration had no guardrails in place to prevent the ransacking of the various Covid programs.

5)The following stance of fraud shows that fraud was not restricted to the many Somali immigrant fraud schemes we have discussed:

An immigrant from India, Manjit Singh Bedi, a former grocery store owner, is accused of allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Federal welfare program.
He fled the country despite a Federal court order telling him not to.
Fortunately, he was arrested in his native India.
The FBI viewed him as the fifth most wanted on their most wanted list for stealing $600,000 from the SNAP food program.
He was indicted on charges of wire fraud and SNAP fraud out in the state of Washington.
According to FBI Director, Kash Patel: "This is the 5th Most Wanted Fraudster captured since the creation of the new list three months ago - and yet another high value target captured overseas, Subjects captured so far have been responsible for a combined over $2 billion in fraud and were on the run for almost 4,000 days collectively prior to arrest."

More good news, the FBI is reaching around the world to barring fraudsters back for trial. The bad news is that this type of fraud should not even happen in the first place.

Enough fraud for today: billions of taxpayer dollars given to Federal employees to NOT work, California fraud continues at a high rate, fraud now identified from Ohio to Washington To Florida and now to India.

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Government Tax Fraud And Corruption, Part 14: Government Fraud From The West Coast To The East Coast, From Medicare to SNAP And Everywhere In Between

1)A lot of the fraud schemes we have reviewed over the past months seemed to be focused on Covid, Medicare,and Medicaid. But that does not mean people are not trying to defraud other government programs:

The United States Department of Agriculture believes that fraudsters could be ripping off the government and taxpayers for as much as $12 billion in the SNAP/food stamp program.
The Feds recently busted 17 different criminal networks for stealing SNAP funds across seven states that allegedly stole $350 million dollars from the SNAP program.
One scheme allegedly involved Rajaie Ahmad Ali and others who ran a Kwik Stop in Miami.
The plan involved legitimate SNAP recipients selling their SNAP benefits at a discount to Ali and others who then pocketed the difference between the face value and what they bought the benefits for after submitting almost $20 million in fraudulent transactions at their store cash register.
Two of his co-conspirators are foreign nationals and he was supposed to have been deported years ago but was allowed to continue to defraud in the face of possible deportation.
The defrauding started in 2019 and went on for years before someone noticed that a single Kwik Stop store maybe is not really doing $20 million worth of SNAP business.

Unreal lack of audit controls in the disbursing of taxpayer money.

2)A few more busted fraud schemes from around the country:

In Alabama, a tax preparer filed thousands of fraudulent energy tax returns and defrauded the government of $70 million.
In Mississippi, a Federal government employee with the Small Business Administration and a former IRS employee used the government’s disaster loan approval process to defraud the government of $11.5 million.
In Louisiana, former police officers forged fake crime reports to help foreigners get US visas and charged $5,000 for each fake crime victim.
Inmates at a Federal prison in Mississippi ran a fraud operation from inside the prison walls, using stolen identities to collect $4.3 million in fraudulent unemployment and disaster loan payments.
Illegal immigrants from Romania in North Carolina operated a mulrti-state SNAP fraud scheme, robbing legitimate families in need.
The CEO of a charter school in Louisiana diverted Federal education funds into his family's pockets in addition to purchasing high end cars and vacationing in Egypt.
South Carolina’s anti-fraud effort has already discovered a single Medicaid fraud that defrauded taxpayers of $20 million.
The Louisiana attorney general recently announced that she has convicted more than 100 fraudsters and recovered $73 million in stolen funds.

Good news all around, the government via JD Vance’s anti-fraud taskforce is finally doing what it should have been doing for the past several decades: protecting the hard earned tax dollars that honest Americans entrusted to the political class, a trust that was obviously abused and ignored until now.

3)Let’s go out to Oregon for the fraud shenanigans that foreign nationals have been using to steal taxpayer wealth:

Two men in Oregon have been charged for allegedly stealing over $17 million from Medicare, veterans' programs and private insurers.
One of the alleged perps was a citizen of Pakistan and the other was reportedly an Iranian.
The money was stolen under the cover of billing Medicare for genetic testing but the tests were never done, just billed.
U.S. Attorney Bradford summed up this disgusting behavior: “Health care fraud inflates costs, restricts access to critical services, and siphons taxpayer dollars from senior citizens, people with disabilities, low-income families, veterans, and others who rely on these federal programs.”

In all our conversations about defrauding the American taxpayer, a large number of the fraudsters are like these two in Oregon: foreign citizens that are here either legally or illegally. Another reason why Biden’s immigration policies were a disaster, white collar immigrants criminals figured out how to defraud government programs quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

4)But the fraud, as we have discussed, is a transcontinental program as we move from the west coast and Oregon to the east coast and Maine:

Speaking recently in the state of Maine,Vance proclaims that Maine is a top ten state from a fraud perspective.
As an example, he discussed the case of illegal immigrant Rakiya Mohamed.
She defrauded Medicaid of $15 million over five years by claiming to use translation services.
$15 million over 5 years comes out to $3 million a year to about $58,000 a WEEK on average for translation services.
And despite this ridiculous billing rate, she got away with it for five years.

Fraud is everywhere and previous Presidential administrations let it flourish without minimal downsize risk.

5)The Vance anti-fraud effort recently returned to California, probably the worst state for the defrauding of government programs:

Due to the widespread fraud in the state, the Federal government has blocked $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements until the governor and the state government clean up the Medicaid mess in the state.
Vance said the reasons for the stopping of fraud were pretty simple: “We’re announcing that the federal government is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from the state of California,.And the simple reason is because the state of California has not taken fraud very seriously.”
MehMet Oz, the head of the Medicare and Medicaid effort at the Federal government added: “We believe that at least half of the hospices in the entire area around Los Angeles are fraudulent. Today, we announce 800 of those hospices have been suspended. 800 hospices that last year charged the federal taxpayer $1.4 billion will no longer be paid.”
90% of those suspended hospices have not appealed their suspension, indicating that they were likely fronts for fraud and were not providing legit Medicare aid and support.

Hundreds and hundreds of bogus Medicare entities that have been stealing taxpayer money for years and nobody in the state of California did nothing to stop it. Disgusting lack of respect for taxpayers' wealth.

Enough fraud talk for today, so depressing that our dollars were allowed to be wasted from coast to coast. No wonder our taxes are high and the national debt is about $40,000,000,000,000.

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