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The task force has a wide range of activity that it considers fraud.Vance’s fraud task force drops hammer: 70 California hospice and home health providers suspended
The Trump administration's new Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, is moving to suspend dozens of Los Angeles businesses.
On March 16, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the task force, announcing that it would advise the president and coordinate efforts to end fraud, waste, and abuse in government benefit programs.
'The American people deserve better than being ripped off by people who hate this country.'
The task force is working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to identify and suspend hospice and home health providers flagged as high risk.
CMS has suspended 70 providers, a source told Blaze News.
"As the task force to root out waste, fraud, and abuse ramps up its work, we expect this number to grow exponentially," the source stated.
This latest action from the CMS builds on a February announcement of action to protect taxpayers by cracking down on fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Vance to reveal that the administration had deferred $259.5 million in quarterly Medicaid funding in Minnesota due to fraud concerns. Additionally, the CMS implemented a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollment for certain durable medical equipment suppliers.
The task force plans to utilize the CMS' existing template, which involves an AI-driven internal fraud detection system that either blocks claims or flags them for review, a source told Blaze News.
This system can be scaled across the government to root out waste, fraud, and abuse nationwide more effectively. The task force is actively hiring CMS technologists to deploy this system.
"Vice President Vance looks forward to carrying out the president's war on fraud," a spokesperson for Vance told Blaze News. "The American people deserve better than being ripped off by people who hate this country, and the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud will ensure that essential taxpayer-funded services are used to support the hardworking Americans who rely on them, instead of being used by fraudsters and criminals."
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The White House's announcement about the establishment of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud followed a bombshell investigation in December by journalist Nick Shirley, who uncovered a massive social-services fraud scandal in Minnesota.
The Trump administration appeared to confirm these reports, stating in its task force fact sheet that Medicaid fraud in Minnesota "could total billions," adding that it was taking action to end the "epidemic."
"There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud," the White House wrote.
Earlier this month, Shirley revealed over $170 million in alleged day-care and hospice fraud in California.
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'These shifts were largely due to lower levels of net international migration, which declined nationwide.'Man in mental health crisis grabs cop's gun, pulls trigger as he's being restrained; another officer opens fire: Officials
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Rochester police officers and a Crisis Response Team social worker were called to an apartment in the 1900 block of Ashland Drive Northwest around 9:30 p.m. March 11 on a report that a man was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Officers and social workers arrived and spoke to the man in his apartment, the bureau said, adding that an adult female and multiple children also were present.
The bureau said White 'grabbed an officer’s firearm during the struggle and pulled the trigger, causing the gun to fire.'
Officers and the social worker noted that the man was acting erratically and paranoid, and they concluded that he possibly was a threat to himself and others, the bureau said.
Authorities decided to place the man — later identified as 47-year-old Cleavon White — on a 72-hour mental health hold and told him he would be transported to a hospital, the bureau said.
After White refused to go, officers then attempted to take him into custody, the bureau said.
But White resisted and a struggle ensued, the bureau said.
The bureau said White "grabbed an officer’s firearm during the struggle and pulled the trigger, causing the gun to fire."
Police bodycam video of the incident — which can be viewed here — recorded the moment when the officer shouted, "He's grabbing my gun!"
Seconds later, another officer fired five shots, according to the bodycam video.
The bureau said the shots struck White, after which officers immediately rendered medical aid until an ambulance arrived and transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In the aftermath of the shooting, someone is heard on the bodycam video asking where the gun is, and someone else — presumably the officer who shouted, "He's grabbing my gun!" — is heard saying, "It's still in my holster."
No officers were injured, the bureau said.
Officer Josiah Duit — who has three years of law enforcement experience — fired his department-issued firearm, the bureau said, adding that the Rochester Police Department placed Duit on critical incident leave.
A March 12 news release from Rochester Police said the then-unidentified man grabbed one officer’s firearm during the struggle, but it did not indicate he pulled the trigger. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension issued it's report March 17. The police bodycam video was released Wednesday.
The bureau said the Rochester Police Department requested that it investigate the use of force, and the bureau will present its findings without recommendation on charges to the Olmsted County Attorney’s Office for review.
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'Minnesota was big but California is even bigger': Nick Shirley uncovers staggering alleged fraud right under Newsom's nose
Journalist Nick Shirley uncovered more than $170 million in alleged day-care and hospice fraud in California, surpassing the scandal he previously exposed in Minnesota.
On Monday, Shirley shared a 40-minute video featuring him and his team confronting alleged fraudsters living in luxury at the expense of American taxpayers.
'It's like somebody took a motel building and turned it into a hundred fraudulent organizations.'
"Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger," Shirley wrote.
"We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians," he continued. "It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis."
In the video, Shirley explained that California's version of Medicare, Medi-Cal, has more than doubled from $108 billion in fiscal year 2022 to a proposed $222 billion in fiscal year 2026.
"One out of every 10 dollars of home health care in America is spent in Los Angeles," Shirley stated. "It is estimated that the fraud in California could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars."
Shirley and his crew stopped at several claimed day-care locations, including some homes in residential areas, that seemed to have no children present. In one instance, the team visited a supposed day care in an apartment complex, where they found two young children playing outside. The children informed them that no adults were present.
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"The crazy thing is California allocates $6 billion to child-care and day-care facilities just like these, and there are over 39,000 facilities in the state," Shirley said.
Shirley and his team also visited alleged hospice centers receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. He explained that two of the facilities charged roughly $6,000 per beneficiary.
"It looks like there's about 15 more hospice centers inside this one plaza we're going to right now," Shirley said.
He noted that some facilities had not even registered with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, suggesting they may be shell companies.
"It's rumored that these are Armenian-Russian gangs," Shirley said.
One of the hospice locations Shirley visited reportedly received roughly $1.3 million. However, the location was empty, with no employees or furniture inside.
"Not only are these shell companies, these are shell buildings," an individual on Shirley's team stated. "It's like somebody took a motel building and turned it into a hundred fraudulent organizations."
Shirley highlighted the luxury vehicles in the parking lot, including Mercedes, Teslas, and BMWs.
Shirley explained that fraudulent hospices collect taxpayer funds by obtaining Medicare beneficiary numbers from individuals and enrolling them in care without their knowledge.
"Must be very lucrative, because a lot of these businesses, these doors right here have nothing on them; all the blinds are turned out," he said. "This is what you call welfare maxxing."
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