All proper, if we must – Latest News
So now Rob Bonta has a ardour for rooting out fraud.
The California lawyer basic, who in February scoffed on the prospect of widespread fraud within the Golden State — and accused the Trump administration of politicizing the problem — received the memo eventually.
On Thursday the AG stated his workplace had charged 21 people in reference to 14 hospices that had billed taxpayers $267 million for sham providers.
Good. But speak about late to the ball.
It wasn’t till the media — led by the California Post — and the Trump administration, led by fraud czar JD Vance and federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, pressed the case towards pervasive fraud that California brass would even concede the issue.
Just two months in the past, the truth is, Bonta staged a information convention in downtown LA to blast federal claims of California fraud as “reckless,” “false” and “ridiculous.”
Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, on April 2 in Los Angeles. Carlin Stiehl for CA Post
Gavin Newsom has performed no higher.
In January, his workplace replied to information of the feds’ fraud investigation by slamming President Donald Trump as “a deranged, habitual liar” whose “relationship with reality ended years ago.”
And this month, a Newsom spokesman referred to as City Journal’s complete reporting on fraud in California “utter bull—— from top to bottom.”
Well. These are two of the state’s prime executives, of us.
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Instead of working to uproot fraud — a lot much less stop it — they’ve largely denied, deflected, and attacked these who’ve pushed it to mild.
It’s no surprise Essayli, the primary assistant United States lawyer for the Central District of California, has misplaced persistence with this crew.
“Having my office prosecute fraudsters to whom California blindly handed out millions does not count as ‘fighting fraud,’” he wrote to Bonta on X. “It’s the federal government cleaning up after you and the [g]overnor’s incompetence.”
Attorney General Rob Bonta in Los Angeles on April 9. Jonathan Alcorn For CA Post
Also this month, Essayli stated he anticipated fraud towards taxpayers to achieve “hundreds of billions” of {dollars} underneath the watch of “fraud king” Newsom.
The daring claims and eye-popping numbers fail to shock given the entrenched tradition of political handouts in California.
Elected officers pump taxpayer {dollars} — on a loop — to allies and cronies and varied liberal causes, typically with few controls and scant oversight.
The largesse helps buy political help for the perpetually formidable in Sacramento.
Now, after months of denial and deflection, Bonta boasts of rooting out fraud himself.
His (unintended) message to taxpayers: Oh, all proper, if we must.
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