All 50 states need to be immediately auditing their care programs, NOW.
Quote:JUST IN: Americans are now growing suspicious of other "Childcare" locations nationwide that receive taxpayer subsidies, with a list emerging from UTAH all with African or Arab names
It's also been confirmed many so-called "care" centers max out donations to Somali and Muslim candidates in and out-of-state.
All 50 states need to be immediately auditing their care programs, NOW.
Quote:In Minnesota, California, and elsewhere, for the past few weeks, it's been looking like one can't turn over a flat rock without uncovering some kind of goblin ripping off American taxpayers by committing welfare fraud or another form of fraud.
On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent penned an opinion piece for Fox News, and as it happens, he's got some ideas on how to fix all this.
At the president’s direction, the Treasury Department is examining the transfer of funds allegedly sent from the affected parts of Minnesota to other countries, including Somalia. These funds are often sent through money services businesses, which provide financial services outside the banking system. This money could have potentially been diverted to terrorist organizations, such as Al-Shabaab. Treasury has a long history of following the money to financially suffocate bad actors, like the mafia and Mexican drug cartels. Now we are doing the same to shut down Somali fraud rings.
As part of this effort, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the IRS are investigating financial institutions that may have played a role in abetting rampant fraud. Specifically, we are evaluating whether these institutions have complied with their legal obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act and Treasury’s regulations, which are designed to detect money laundering and safeguard the U.S. financial system from abuse.
That's all to the good. But it's not all good news; Secretary Bessent also gives us a little better idea of exactly how much this is costing us, the American taxpayers.
Sadly, Minnesota does not have a monopoly on this sort of fraud. Similar misconduct is almost certainly happening in many other states, especially states like California, New York, and Illinois, which impose lax controls on the use of government benefit funds. In fact, our own Government Accountability Office estimates that the government may lose more than $500 billion each year to fraud. This is a staggering figure larger than the GDP of most countries. It represents up to 10% of federal tax revenues each year and approximately 1% to 2% of GDP.
10 percent. Every year. Now, even if we recover every cent of this money, it won't be a patch on the national debt, which is closing in on $39 trillion. But that's no reason to let it continue.
Here's another thing that the Trump administration can do, although this one's outside of Secretary Bessent's wheelhouse: Any fraudster who is not a citizen, deport them. Any fraudster who is a naturalized citizen revoke their citizenship and deport them. Any fraudster who is a natural-born citizen, indict them and (hopefully) convict them, and when that's done, seize any assets they may have to repay at least some of what they stole.
This isn't a new thing. In my years working in the medical device and biotech industries, I remember many tales from colleagues about Medicare and Medicaid fraud in particular. A former business partner of mine had to repay almost a million dollars in Medicare fraud that one of his salespeople had pulled before disappearing; the guy was my old partner's employee, so he was liable, or at least, that's what the authorities told him. But in recent years, it seems the whole fraud issue has run wild, and yes, Somali immigrants seem to be involved in a wildly disproportionate number of the really big schemes.
What Treasury is planning will be great. But if Immigration & Customs Enforcement isn't already involved, they need to be.
RE: All 50 states need to be immediately auditing their care programs, NOW.
I have a friend who started up a home healthcare products service company back in the 90s. His primary source of income was medicare. He owned the business for 8 years, sold it for 10 times what he paid, and retired. We were talking about all the fraud going on, and he said that had he known he could get away with it, he could have enriched himself by 100, rather than 10 times. However, when he was doing it, things were a lot more on the up-and-up. The government kept tabs on Medicare expenditures and was hyper-alert for fraud and abuse at that time, so he played it straight because the penalties for fraud were so severe he wouldn't risk ruining a legitimate business for greed.
Currently, funds and various benefits are distributed as if it were Halloween, and foreign actors are merely children engaging in trick-or-treating. It's by design, and it's working.
RE: All 50 states need to be immediately auditing their care programs, NOW.
(01-18-2026 08:26 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: I have a friend who started up a home healthcare products service company back in the 90s. His primary source of income was medicare. He owned the business for 8 years, sold it for 10 times what he paid, and retired. We were talking about all the fraud going on, and he said that had he known he could get away with it, he could have enriched himself by 100, rather than 10 times. However, when he was doing it, things were a lot more on the up-and-up. The government kept tabs on Medicare expenditures and was hyper-alert for fraud and abuse at that time, so he played it straight because the penalties for fraud were so severe he wouldn't risk ruining a legitimate business for greed.
Currently, funds and various benefits are distributed as if it were Halloween, and foreign actors are merely children engaging in trick-or-treating. It's by design, and it's working.
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