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Deloitte, a $74 billion cancer metastasized across America

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2013366996180574446

Excerpt:

Consulting fees

You were never meant to hear the name “Deloitte” and you were never meant to know that the government has wasted $74 billion by working with them. Quietly, Deloitte is one of the largest contractors “building” American government IT systems. Medicaid enrollment, unemployment insurance, child welfare case management, food assistance eligibility. When you interact with a state benefits system, theres a decent chance Deloitte built it.

In building the 600m row (and growing) database for somaliscan, I sorted through literally millions of invoices, and once name continued to appear; Deloitte. California’s unemployment fraud disaster that cost the state $32 billion? Built by Deloitte. Tennessee kicking 250,000 children off Medicaid? Built by Deloitte. The billion dollar software project in California that got cancelled after spending the budget? Ding ding ding, DELOITTE.

I decided to dig into federal contracts, state contracts, documented failures, lawsuits, audits, etc. I found a huge $40 billion tax payer farm.

The numbers

Over the past two decades, Deloitte has received roughly $30 billion in federal contracts and at least $10 billion more from states. This massive number wouldn’t be an issue if Deloitte wasn’t doing an irredeemably terrible job at providing the government with services. In every single state they’ve provided service (25) they had significant system failures. Wrongful benefit denials affecting hundreds of thousands, fraud vulnerabilities that cost the taxpayer BILLIONS, projects that ran 5x over budget before getting cancelled.

AND THEY KEEP GETTING HIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

California: Deloitte built the EDD system that processed unemployment claims. When COVID hit, the system couldn’t handle the volume and also had no built in fraud detection. The state paid out over $31 billion in fraudulent claims. Auditors warned about the vulnerabilities for years, nothing was done. And after COVID, California RE-HIRED DELOITTE to FIX THE PROBLEMS.

Tennessee: After COVID in 2023, states had to re-check whether everyone on Medicaid was still eligible. TN’s system, built by Deloitte, malfunctioned to a failure point and over 250,000 children lost coverage because the system processed them incorrectly.

CCMS (CA courts): In 2004, California hired Deloitte to build a unified court case management system. Budget was $260 million. By 2012, they’d spent $1.9 BILLION AND PROCESSED 102 CHANGE ORDERS. The state killed the project.
And the stories just keep adding up, across every single state contract Deloitte took, there are one or more catastrophic failures.

The Usual Suspects

I expected to find more obvious corruption when I started this. Bags of cash, quid pro quos, expose after expose. What I found is probably worse.

Deloitte spends about $1.35 million/year on federal lobbying. Their PAC gave $3.6m in the last election cycle, split evenly between parties. Theres a few million more in state-level contributions. These aren’t huge numbers by DC standards, not enough to buy outcomes directly. Its honestly conservative in terms of spending.

The issue is the revolving door of government employees that move between Deloitte and the government agencies that award contracts. State health directors leave the government and join Deloitte, managers from Deloitte take up state IT departments. Hill staffers that worked on healthcare policy show up at Deloitte.

Forgive me as I dive into specific personnel to paint the picture:

Seema Verma ran a consulting company called SVC Inc. in Indiana. Gov Pence paid her $6.6 million to help design IN’s medicaid expansion. When Trump/Pence won in 2016, Pence brought Verma to Washington as the CMS administrator controlling federal medicaid funds, CMS. CMS pays 90% of the cost when states build new Medicaid IT systems. Verma hired Mary Mayhew who lasted 3 months at CMS before becoming Florida’s AHCA Sec. under Desantis. Mayhew oversay a $135 million Medicaid contract to Deloitte, the same company that built FL’s unemployment system that was so broken it collapsed when covid hit. Deloitte got fined $8m for that, and was then rewarded a $135m contract. Mayhew left AHCA weeks after the contract was awarded to be the CEO of the Florida Hospital Association. The hospitals she would now lobby for are paid largely by...... MEDICAID. Seema Verma was also responsible for $200m in contracts going to Deloitte. Jennifer Ungru was AHCA’s COS, left to run Desantis’s healthcare transition team, then became... a lobbyist for Deloitte. Tom McCullion was DEO project manager who selected Deloitte for CONNECT (the reason for the $8m fine). He called the system poor and unstable. In 2019, AHCA hired McCullion as a $155/hour contractor to advise on medicaid contract bidding. He left and 5 months later, Deloitte won the $135m contract.

Theres a hundred stories just like those I covered, you get the point. To be clear, this is NOT illegal. Thats the problem. Deloitte is objectively terrible at doing whatever the government pays them way too much money to do. I cannot comprehend how you would spend $100 million building a medicaid management software or $1 billion on a court case management software that doesn’t work, its inconceivable.
$74 billion comes from the $40 billion in contracts and my estimated $34 billion in direct losses, not including administrative costs, healthcare costs, fraud, IRS modernization, Texas energy fund failure, the real number of waste is probably significantly higher.

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than what I divulged in this article. Deloitte will fight very hard to maintain their government contracts and continue leeching off of the American taxpayer. I spent a long time trying to figure out why nothing changes, and the answer was almost depressing. Deloitte’s systems are just baked into everything, a cancer metastasized into the bloodstream that feeds on tax dollars instead of glucose. I have a bit of evidence that might suggest payoffs, quidproquo, etc, but the truth is more difficult. Nobody in the government wants to fix it because the tax dollars keep flowing in.

The data

I’ve put everything I collected on https://www.somaliscan.com/investigations/deloitte - State by state breakdowns, federal contracts by agency and year, timeline of failures, political contributions, revolving door, etc etc all on the web.

CSV’s all available for download, all data is exportable. I dont know how to fix this but I know more people need to pay attention because nobody is and the contracts keep getting signed.

The DeParture Of DeSantis

An America First/MAGA Rebuttal to 2026 State of the State Speech.

https://miamiindependent.com/politics/2026/01/19/the-departure-of-desantis/

Excerpt:

.....Dear Lord, please don’t let his actions go further than the Sunshine State, as DeGov’s “results” have been cloaked in some very shady reality.

Those of us who love our Constitutional Republic, working and praying for its survival, hope that the underhanded and unconstitutional moves that DeSantis has made in his two terms as Governor of Florida, do NOT appear on the national stage!

Since every “State of the State” address must have a rebuttal, here’s mine. It’s not from an opposing party, as it the norm, but from the heart of a committed conservative, who has come to know this man too well.

This one is on behalf of Americans everywhere, who hold freedom dear - especially the thousands of America First/MAGA Constitutionalists who were literally removed from the the Republican Party of Florida by DeSantis and his minions.

.....*YES, Florida has added jobs since the pandemic.

*YES, Florida is ONE of the states that cooperate with the Trump administration in removal of illegal invaders. Thirty six others do, also. DeSantis DID mandate cooperation with ICE and the US Border Patrol, because he could see illegal immigration at the top of the nation’s voters’ concerns.

Floridians should be glad that the governor is finally talking about the invasion of the undocumented. Since 2019, right after DeSantis took office, Florida Motor Vehicle Bureau workers have been required to give voter registration forms to people who do not have proof of citizenship when they come for a drivers’ license. This is the same year that Florida joined ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center that stores (and will not return) voter’s data.

Governor Rick Scott refused to join Florida to the ERIC system, because he felt that it gathered AND RETAINED too much personal information on his citizens.

NOW, when DeSantis is on the way out, there is a bill for consideration to require proof of citizenship before voting. It’s the latest “thing”. How many illegals have registered and voted since 2019??

*YES, DeSantis mandated, in 2020, an increase in Florida’s teachers’ pay, BUT this did not include pay for veteran teachers. The Florida Education Association, the state teacher’s union, says that despite recent pay increases, Florida is consistently at the bottom for U.S. teacher pay. The NEA ranks the state second to last, despite recent pay increases, which have not even kept up with inflation.

*YES, he boasted that the state has more than tripled its rainy-day fund and paid off nearly half of the state’s taxpayer supported debt. BUT…

DeGov failed to mention the $40+ BILLION unfunded liability for the optional pension plan available to state employees, in addition to the basic State plan. If you remember, this optional plan is the one termed “Triple Dipping”. See the website, researched and developed by Florida citizens, which explains the concerted rip-off of the Florida citizenry.

Because of this unfunded liability, SHOULD PROPERTY TAXES BE REMOVED in 2026, THEY WILL HAVE TO BE REPLACED BY A SALES TAX, OR OTHER INCOME STREAM TO TALLAHASSEE. The problems with this will be left to the next Governor.

DeSantis also avoided speaking about the soaring cost of living in Florida. According to Patriot Software, Florida ranks as the 12th most expensive state in which to live. The # 1-11 states are all deep blue. Some sources claim that up to 50% of Florida residents have or ARE considering moving to another state where their money goes further. What you spend $55,461 to cover in Tampa, for example, can be obtained for $50,000 in Crossville, TN.

The costs of ENERGY in the state have been rising by double digits and will continue to do so, adding to the cost of living problems, as Florida continues to run, headlong, into solar, which is only good for 5+ hours on a sunny day, without costly and hazardous back-up. The Florida Public Service Commission recently huddled with the energy providers and agreed to a plan for the future which will raise rate payers bills 40+% in the coming 4-6 years. Again, the ratepayers requested input, but were granted little to none.

On Monday, DeGov told the audience, “My message is simple. Get the bills to my desk,” DeSantis said. “In the spirit of 1776, I’m happy to put my John Hancock on those pieces of legislation.” He was referring to bills on illegal immigration, eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs, expanding gun rights and supporting the state’s rural areas, all of which have been issues for his entire residence in the Governor’s Mansion, but are now in the national limelight. So, now, he is eager to sign related legislation.

The ones he avoids signing are those about elections and the use of machines, and anything else that goes against the big guys. The citizen be damned. The country be damned. These bills are difficult ones for which to even find sponsorship, let alone get signed into law. As one incredible dedicated citizen who does mounds of election integrity work says, the Florida Republican Party simply has “no stomach for election integrity.” This says volumes about Governor DeSantis, and who/what he is.

There has been rigid resistance to election reform during his entire tenure

DeGov likes to brag about being tough on crime. But, as we all know, he has been anything BUT, with crimes of his party’s own making.

Then there is the scandal of Hope Florida, founded by First Lady, Casey DeSantis with $10 million of the money refunded to the state from an $67 million overcharge by Centene, the states biggest medicaid contractor. Hope Florida then proceeded to share this with two “dark money” groups. Even the Republican legislature in Tallahassee started an investigation into money laundering. Nothing has come of any investigations, and nothing will, I predict.

There is a lot of “dark money” from developers and other influencers, moving from pocket to pocket in Florida. A group of citizens have been working hard to shine light on some of it. It takes an amazing amount of time and effort to untangle even some of it.

Then, there are those DeSantis promises made but never kept. A few of the notables were “medical freedom” and voting integrity. Not only did neither of the bills for which Floridians asked become law, but, somehow, obverse and perverse bills were proposed. The right to medical freedom he granted, ended with the Covid scam cancellation. The election integrity requests crashed and burned when Tallahassee tried to pass the far-left’s bill, wherein asking an election official a question could earn a citizen jail time for harassment - without even the involvement of the law.

.....All in all, Florida suffered under Governor DeSantis. From the Trump fans in the parking lot of the Leesburg book store - which DeSantis had removed by police while he was signing his book about freedom - to the people dying of cancer IN CLUSTERS from the radioactive by-product of the Mosaic phosphate mines, which Tallahassee refused to address. See the documentary of the victims, PhosFate, to hear the sad truths for both man and beast.

Remember, it was Benjamin Franklin who told the inquiring lady in 1787 that we have “a republic, if we can keep it.”

Politicians like Ron DeSantis make it tough.