Fraud king has few answers – Latest News
“California Schemin.’”
Do these phrases consult with Gavin Newsom’s bid for the presidency — or to the rampant fraud within the state he leads?
Perhaps it’s each.
Nearly each time Team Trump highlights or prosecutes fraud in California, Newsom reacts by denying, deflecting, and assailing the messenger.
Instead of ducking the difficulty, the governor ought to step up and reply powerful questions on how fraud grew so pervasive and entrenched in California on his watch.
On the heels of federal fraud raids Thursday in Southern California, LA’s prime federal prosector advised Fox News that Newsom has presided over a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} in fraud.
Let that sit for a minute.
“I call him the fraud king for a reason,” mentioned Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. lawyer for the Central District of California. “… They’ve not taken fraud seriously for over a decade here in California … Remember, none of this fraud could happen unless California issued these licenses.”
Poor oversight is one purpose California schemers have grown so brazen.
Scammers create fake amenities that invoice Medicare (that’s, loot federal taxpayers) for end-of-life look after non-terminal or nonexistent sufferers.
Extensive reporting by The California Post has discovered obvious indicators of the hospice hustle, together with empty storefronts, workplaces that don’t exist, and addresses purported to deal with a number of end-of-life care amenities.
And what’s Newsom’s reply to all of this?
“This is utter bullsh** from top to bottom,” a Newsom spokesperson advised The Post. “California will keep doing its part to go against fraud, we ask the federal government to work with us to do the same.”
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The governor’s press workplace additionally wrote this week on X:
“Glad the federal government is finally stepping up to do their part. State has been taking action for years, including suspending 280+ licenses & banning new licenses since 2022. Big question: Will Trump pardon any of them like he’s done for so many fraudsters before?”
None of this means a governor who treats the difficulty significantly.
From “utter bullsh** (denial) to “keep doing its part” (laughable) to “Will Trump pardon …?” (deflection), Newsom’s deploying rhetorical methods.
The line about suspending 280+ licenses and banning new ones since 2022 no less than broaches the difficulty.
But it falls far short of addressing the scandal in a critical and complete approach.
How did billions of {dollars} of fraud happen on Newsom’s watch? And why on his watch and never his predecessor’s?
Why did state companies — together with the Department of Public Health, which licenses hospices in California — miss or fail to behave on so many apparent crimson flags?
How, in a single instance, did 89 hospice firms come to be registered to a single building in Van Nuys?
If the state has carried out a lot to clean up fraud … then why is there nonetheless a lot fraud to clean up?
We have questions, however Team Newsom has few answers.
Instead, he provides glib assaults, deflection and, of course, indignation.
Essayli mentioned the governor has did not implement fraud rules, “because he doesn’t want to own the problem!”
He doesn’t, certainly.
Newsom could also be critical about chasing the presidency.
But voters ought to bear in mind: For years, he wasn’t critical about fraud in California.
By all present indicators, he nonetheless isn’t.
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