NEWSOM KNEW?: DOJ investigates EXPLOSIVE California fraud allegations

Well, move over Nick Shirley. There's a

new fraudzar. JD Vance. The president

announced, quote, "Vice President JD

Vance is now in charge of fraud in the

United States. We will call him the

fraudsar, and his focus will be

everywhere, but primarily in those blue

states where crooked Democrat

politicians have had a free-for-all in

the unprecedented theft of taxpayer

money." Well, it's about time because

American taxpayers have been ripped off

for too long. The president says the

fraud in the blue states is so rampant

JD could balance the national budget.

It's not surprising opening up a hospice

in California. It's a pretty easy

hustle.

>> It was going on for years and all of

these schemes kind of operate very

similarly. They get a hospice license

from the state of California. You cannot

bill Medicare for hospice without being

licensed by the state of California.

Those licenses are issued with no

checking, no vetting. In fact, this

couple has a criminal record. So, they

couldn't get the license. So, they just

put it under their daughter's name, but

they continued to operate the hospice

under their daughter's name, and they

build uh Medicare for over $4 million,

and no one did anything about it until

we arrested them.

>> Well, I might go get a license myself.

Everybody seems to be getting in on it,

but they better keep their eyes peeled

because the FBI is starting to crack

down.

>> Early morning, Southern California. FBI

SWAT making simultaneous arrests of

hospice owners accused of booking

millions from federal taxpayers. Do

>> you have anything to say about those

charges?

>> No, I need

>> Have you got anything to say about these

accusations?

>> We've been investigating for 4 years.

>> That husband and wife, he a doctor, she

a nurse do business at St. Francis

Paliotative Care out of this high-rise

office. accused in a criminal complaint

of enrolling hundreds of patients who do

not qualify for hospice, but billing the

federal government as if they did.

>> Well, the investigation is called

Operation Never Say Die. They're

targeting phantom hospice centers, and

so far it's working. Yesterday, the feds

arrested doctors, nurses, and

psychologists accused of pocketing 60

million right under Greasy Gavin

Newsome's nose. But here's how they got

caught. All of the terminally ill

patients weren't dying.

>> Lolita Menard, a 65year-old uh woman in

Anaheim, she ran a company named Topena

Hospice Care. She build Medicare for

more than 9.1

million over a fiveyear period for the

care of supposedly terminally ill

patients. This company had a death

discharge rate of 85%.

When you go to hospice, you're usually

going to you're going there to die.

You're not supposed to have an 85

survival rate coming out of your hospice

facility. That is five times uh more

than the national average of 17%.

>> Yeah. Everyone's dying to open a hospice

center, but these fraudsters can't stop.

They're addicted.

Nita Palma,

76 years old, threetime convicted

healthc care fraudster who is actually

in federal prison. Uh she's charged in a

new case because she perpetuated a new

hospice fraud while she's in prison.

That is how egregious and bold some of

these fraudsters are.

>> Yeah, the frauds are might want to look

into the homeless industrial complex

because they're paying top dollar for

powerpoints. The son of San Fran's top

homeless official pocketed 10 grand for

five slides on top of 140,000 for

research services. Not a bad gig. Call

me if you need some more research. So he

hasn't been charged, but prosecutors say

the payments seemed unfair. California

has become a cash register for scammers.

According to Chris Rufo, during cor co

more people applied for unemployment in

California than adults who actually live

there. Officials admitted to paying

almost 20 billion in fraud claims. You

didn't need to be alive to claim

unemployment. Prisoners and even the

dead got approved. Even rappers were

getting in on the fun and bragging about

it in their songs

that you

certify on laptop. I'm working out

in a minute to tell me.

Damn.

Not bad. That was Nuke Bizzle. And after

that song dropped, he was charged with

fraud. He plead guilty to stealing more

than $700,000.

So his bars landed him behind bars. But

it's not just rappers. Officials say

what's happening in California could be

the biggest scam in American history.

>> This is not just a fraud problem. This

is a California problem. We want to be

very frank about this. The federal

government is the purse. All the money

comes from the federal government. And

the problem that you see in California

is that there is no vetting and there's

no checking. They do not care because

it's not their money is the way the

state of California looks at it. And so

in California, I call California the the

kingdom of fraud. Uh and Gavin Newsome

reigns over this kingdom. Here you have

hundreds of billions of dollars in

fraud.

>> Yep. The fraud king. Well, let's bring

in Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the

Manhattan Institute. Great reporting in

all of this, Chris. I'm sure Gavin

Newsome hates to see you and Nick

Shirley and JD Vance coming on this, but

if the hospice and the Medicaid and the

Medicare and the daycarees and the

Laring centers look this bad, I can't

imagine what the voter roles look like.

>> Yeah, that's right. And you know, we

spent a number of months with reporters

looking over hundreds of documents,

interviewing dozens of sources across

the state of California. And to our best

estimate, and that of experts at HHS and

elsewhere, California under Gavin

Newsome has lost somewhere between 180

billion and $280 billion to fraud.

That's people from around the world.

Romanian scammers, neo-Nazi prison

gangs, other foreign criminal

enterprises just ripping off taxpayers,

not just in California, but across the

country. This is the largest single

systematic fraud case in American

history and really in world history. And

it's all happening under Gavin Newsome.

>> But yet, Chris, he doesn't want to take

any accountability for it. He's going

back and forth with US attorney Billy of

course on X tweeting from his press

office this and that saying it's not his

fault. This is supposed to be under the

purview of the federal government. You

know what can you tell us about this?

And why does Gavin not want to take a

look inside? Maybe he's too busy

podcasting. I don't know. But he really

doesn't want to take any accountability

for any of this.

I I mean, look, Gavin Newsome has a

Teflon quality to him like other

politicians in the past, but he's not

going to be able to outrun this because

the scale of the fraud is enormous.

There are a lot of great reporters,

great officials, great law enforcement

operatives looking at what's happening

right now. And the dirty secret to fraud

in California is that it actually

benefits Newsome because it brings

federal dollars into his state. And more

importantly, it benefits Nuome's union

pay masters who can harvest some of

those health care jobs, some of those

health care expenditures into their

coffers, into the governor's campaign

funds. This is a form of legalized

corruption in California that Newsome

cannot escape. He's just hoping that he