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)The Blue State News website recently did an article that summarized more fraud stories from around the country:
Federal investigators recently charged 455 people across the country with stealing $5.6 BILLION from Federal government health care programs.
19 of those arrested were from Pennsylvania and were associated with a Philadelphia home care company.
This scheme scammed Medicaid for more than $4 million.
They billed Medicaid for services that were never actually provided.
One of the 19 was also trafficking cocaine while at the same time scamming Medicaid.
Two other folks posing as home health aides along with two bogus patients billed Medicaid for $400,000 in false claims.
Pennsylvania Attorney General, Dave Sunday said that real patients get shortchanged by the fraud:"This is a very dangerous public safety issue and a lot of people who should be receiving help are not receiving it because of this."
The JD Vance antifraud effort has already prosecuted over 6,200 alleged fraudsters who billed the Federal government’s healthcare programs for more than $45 billion.
In Minnesota, Federal investigators say that fraud across just 14 state programs has topped $9 billion, with the Minnesota Feeding Our Future scandal alone producing 78 indictments and dozens and dozens of guilty verdicts.
While many states are cracking down on the theft of taxpayer wealth via defrauding inept government programs, that is NOT the case in New York.
With an annual budget of $60 million and a staff of 272 people, the antifraud division in the New York attorney general office, averaged a mere nine criminal fraud indictments a year from 2021 to 2025
This was down from an average of about 100 cases a year prior to the current Attorney general, Letitia James, taking over.
The Congressional Budget office recently reported that their analysis of Obama Care enrollees found that 2.3 million of them improperly and illegally claimed Obama Care tax credits.
1.2 million illegal immigrants and non-citizens were improperly getting Obama Care health insurance subsidies.
Another 700,000 enrolled refused to provide the required income verification in violation of Obama Care requirements.
The CBO predicts that finally enforcing basic Obama Care requirements will save up 500,000 fraudulent subsidies a year and save taxpayers $185 BILLION.
The amount of fraud continues to amaze and disgust. But at least Trump and Vance are finally doing what the Federal government should have been doing for decades, protecting tax dollars.
2)Back to fraud central, also known as Minnesota:
Four people from Minneapolis recently pleaded guilty to fraud.
They allegedly stole $2.2 million from the state’s Housing Stabilization Services Program.
They allegedly used AI tools to create phony records that supported their false billing submissions.
Judging by their names, all four defendants look to be of foreign origin.
The Housing Stabilization Services program is designed to help the very needy in society, those with disabilities, mental health conditions, and drug addiction, and these are the types of less fortunate people the four fraudsters helped to shortchange with their fraud.
The schemers claimed that they served 350 needy folks and billed the program for $2.2 million for these imaginary clients for services never rendered.
These guilty pleas followed upon a larger, previous investigation where eight individuals were charged with also defrauding the Housing Stabilization Services program, with six of the eight from the Somali community in Minneapolis.
Billing for services never rendered, bogus customer names, stealing funds set aside for the heedy. The details might be different but all of the frauds are the same and were allowed to go on for years without being spotted until recently. Makes you wonder if the politicians that were supposed to be protecting taxpayer wealth were that incompetent or they were profiting from the fraud in one way or another and thus, turned a blind eye towards the fraud.
3)Let’s visit Arizona for the first time in our fraud review discussions:
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Apparently fraud rings in Arizona allegedly recruited or kidnaped Native Americans and sent them to so-called “sober homes” where they were supposed to get treatment for addiction.
Once there, the fraudsters allegedly billed Medicaid for services that were never rendered.
Arizona’s government records indicate that the fraud totaled in the billions of dollars and there actually were hundreds of criminal indictments but very little of the money has been recovered.
Once a victim had been recruited or kidnapped, the fraudsters signed them up for Arizona’s American Indian Health Program and then started billing Medicaid for services and treatments that were never done.
Whistleblowers alleged that many of the “patients” were taken against their will, their cell phones taken away, they were prevented from leaving the facility, or later dumped in a remote area with no way to get home.
The fraudsters were billing Medicaid up to a whopping $8,000 a day per patient and yet no one at Medicaid noticed this ridiculous amount of billing.
Arizona officials now admit that the fraud took in $2.5 to $2.8 BILLION from the state’s Medicaid program, money that could have actually been used to help those with an addiction problem rather than get flushed down the fraud drain.
Of the $2.5 to $2.8 billion, only about $125 million has been recovered despite almost 180 criminal indictments and 41 convictions associated with the American Indian Health Program.
Lawyers in a class action suit claim that about 7,000 Native Americans passed through the fraud scheme that up to 2,000 of them might be dead or missing.
A whistleblower back in 2019 told the state’s Medicaid organization that there were some very suspicious and criminal activities likely going on relative to the program.
And yet, nothing was done to investigate, stop the carnage, stop the stealing of taxpayer wealth, or the fraud for a number of years afterwards.
Another disgusting criminal enterprise taking advantage of a government program that was supposed to help the needy, not feed the wallets of criminals, both here and in foreign lands. The American political class should be ashamed of their mishandling of taxpayer wealth and the diversion of these funds away from Americans that really need the help, be it Covid programs, Medicaid, Medicare, native American programs or the many other government programs we have discussed being defrauded.
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