VP JD Vance to Lead Anti-Fraud Task Force in Newsom’s California

The White House has announced it is finalizing plans for a new anti-fraud task force targeting welfare abuse in California and other states, and assigned Vice President J.D. Vance, Andrew Ferguson of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Attorney General Pam Bondi, the National Pulse reported Wednesday.

“California has been a focal point in recent fraud investigations. State auditors previously identified billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims and improper pandemic relief payments. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has defended his state, claiming his administration has made efforts to recover funds and strengthen oversight.”

Last week, California’s U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrest of Alexander Soofer of Los Angeles, who was charged with wire fraud, and that officials seized his $125,000 Range Rover and LA mansion, after he was arrested for allegedly stealing millions in taxpayer funds meant to house and feed the homeless in Los Angeles. Soofer was contracted with the city and county of Los Angeles, to house and feed up to 600 homeless people. But instead, spent millions on a luxurious life, the Globe reported. Soofer stole approximately $23 million.

Shortly after this revelation, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said California is one of the epicenters for fraud, waste and abuse in the entire country, and they are probing massive suspected hospice and home‑health fraud in Los Angeles. If even a fraction of this is true, elected officials and public employees knew of it, and allowed taxpayers to be robbed blind. Home-health services are government approved.

In March, Globe contributor Richie Greenberg and I addressed “The Left’s Nonprofit Shadow Campaign Fund,” and explained, “When corporations cozy up to politicians through ‘charity,’ they’re not competing on merit—they’re buying influence.”

We have been ringing the alarm bells for many years about dubious non-profits tied to politicians and their families, friends, and associates… non-profits that are untraceable black holes for taxpayer/government funding. And it’s been going on a long time. Back when Jerry Brown was California Attorney General, I was reporting on non-profit fraud, and sending the information to the Attorney general’s office. But all I got back was crickets.

More details came available later last week about massive healthcare fraud occurring in California:

Trump CMS Administrator Dr. Oz is EXPOSING jaw-dropping fraud in Gavin Newsom’s California with US Attorney Bill Essayli.

“We have witnessed a 7-fold INCREASE in hospice in LA County. Seven-fold. That doesn’t happen naturally!”

“$3.5B just here in Los Angeles County. We think around hospice and home health care. Then you add in all the other things like they have in Minnesota, but in California scale, it’s huge.”

“There are not seven times more deaths in LA County than there were five years ago. These fraudsters, and these do tend to be foreign influences, these are Russian-Armenian gangs, mafia, that are leading a lot of these efforts.”

“A lot of it’s driven by foreigners who came to Los Angeles, very different culture, Russian-Armenian groups, and this mafia seems to have taken over the system.”

“They corrupt the doctors, they normalize fraud so that everyone sort of expects it, but the magnitude of it is so great that we have to take it on aggressively.”

“It’s a focus area for CMS, and this administration under President Trump is not going to tolerate taxpayer dollars being stolen because people aren’t paying attention anymore. We’re focused on this.”

Gavin Newsom is furious.

We asked How did this happen? How did public employees and elected politicians allow this to happen? How many are involved?

So much fraud.

Things are heating up. We will keep you notified. This is going to be good.