Notoriously fraudulent NY health program lost $1.2 billion to scammers and middlemen: ‘Minnesota multiplied by 10’

NY Post ^ | 1/08/26 | Isabel Vincent

[Libloather]

Taking advantage of a generous New York state program to aid his ailing mother, Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as her caregivers.

Over six years, they were paid $348,000 to look after the elderly woman at a Manhattan apartment.

Except the mom was in Bangladesh the entire time.

Incredibly, Hossain got away with the fraud by having his brother pose as their sick mother for whenever inspectors showed up, before finally being caught. He was later sentenced for grand larceny, according to prosecutors.

It’s just one egregious example of a welfare program — called the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP — that has cost New York taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to waste and fraud.

First set up in 1994, CDPAP was intended to alleviate the number of elderly people going to nursing homes.

But with no qualifications or medical certifications required to enroll as a carer in CDPAP, the program metastasized with little oversight.

The Post was able to identify at least $179 million stolen by CDPAP recipients over the last 10 years, while the program wasted at least $1 billion of taxpayer cash on middlemen.

[Libloather]

Awful lot of fraud out there. Wonder why.

[virgil]

There’s too much money out there, that’s why. It’s just too tempting.

[SMARTY]

Families, schools, the 'media' and society have failed young people for decades. Increasingly, people recognize no authority or truth outside or above themselves.

Once standards are removed, there's nothing left between the world and the worst of human nature

[Liz]

Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as “caregivers.”
<><>In six years, the “caregivers” were paid $348,000 tax dollars.
<><>they falsified govt forms attesting they were caring for the elderly mom in a Manhattan apt.
<><>except the mom was in Bangladesh the entire time.

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And you can bet Ballal Hossain was not the only Third World scumbag doing this.

[ByteMercenary]

“He was later sentenced for grand larceny ...”

So instead of throwing this low-IQ, inbred piece of shiite out of the USA, we get to feed and house him for the duration of his jail time and then what? Welcome him back into our society?

Grand larceny by non-citizens should carry the death penalty.

[proxy_user]

Sheldon Silver is dead, but his spirit lives on! A lot of this is completely legal, thanks to generous laws enacted by the state legislature in return for huge campaign contributions.

[gunnut]

To quote Willie Sutton, “ Because that’s where the money is”.

[hal ogen]

Remember worthless NYC mayor deblasio’s lesbian wife who took $1 billion+ for some whacked “health” program and was never held accountable?

Remind me again why we have to pay taxes.

[oldtech]

An honest person doesn’t seem to have much of a chance anymore.

[PGalt]

YES

[Vaduz]

Many states programs lost billions to scammers and middlemen Minnesota just one of many democrat controlled states so it’s no surprise.

Democrats finger prints are all over the place lock them up is the only solution to the problems.

We are nearing the point of no return Chi much happy.