Posted on 04/04/2026 5:00:05 AM PDT by Libloather
There’s so much fraud happening in California that Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor believes he could “never have enough” prosecutors to tackle it all.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli spoke to The Post Friday about fraud in California — and how, despite his “unlimited hiring authority,” the Department of Justice is starving for new prosecutors aimed at the “almost unimaginable” amount of fraud in the state.
“We’re in a very target rich environment, and there is no shortage of leads for fraud investigations,” he said. “I would say we are doing a lot with what we have. We’re probably more productive than this office has been in years. However, our biggest limiting factor is having enough quality investigators and attorneys to work up and prosecute the cases.”
He described that the office is searching for “smart, capable and hungry prosecutors,” who aren’t just looking for a government paycheck. Essayli said they’ve resorted to looking at more junior lawyers who are one or two years out of law school to fill prosecutor positions, and would encourage them to apply.
Another problem lies within the specialized section dedicated to fraud in Essayli’s office.
Essayli said the major fraud section in his office is at roughly half-staff, because many employees left after President Donald Trump took office or took DOGE buyouts. If he filled out the section, he said, the office would be able to prosecute “at least double or triple” the fraud cases.
He accused Gov. Gavin Newsom of allowing fraud in the “hundreds of billions of dollars” in California earlier Friday.
“I call him the fraud king for a reason,” Essayli said of Newsom. “He has reigned over billions and billions of dollars of fraud…it’s going to be into the hundreds of billions...
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God will show up when we can’t fix it.
End medicare? Are you insane by chance?
Governments have contracted for prosecutors many times. There will be plenty.
Has been going on for years right under the noses of the governor and his idiot AG, “There is no indication, anywhere in the United States, of widespread voter fraud,” Bonta, who was hired to cover for corruption in Sacramento and elsewhere.
Most likely there were kickbacks straight to Democrats from all the theft that is being uncovered, by Bil Essayli, who is a hero.
Let the states handle it
Others, Thank you for telling us why the USA will never solve its debt problem without a collapse.
deterrence - Take a couple of the perps and skin them alive on pay-for-view TV.
Or try this. I seem to recall that the Russian KGB castrated some relatives of the Hezbollah crew that kidnapped some Russian diplomats in Lebanon in the 1980’s.
And Trump is selecting an AG who will prioritize what gets prosecuted.
Epstein is low priority. It is the anecdotal past. But it titillates us.
FRAUD is current (and future if we don’t stop it).
I had to laugh my ass off at Newscum. The little boy accused the DOJ and Republicans of playing “politics” with all these Democrat fraud investigations are all about. Let me tell ya something SKIPPY. TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE POLITICS. You worthless dog turd.
Lock them up until they have enough prosecutors we can wait.
I have to get out of here. Since the billionaires have left, they’re now talking about a one-time 5% tax on equity in held real estate, bank accounts, and investments to help cover the budget deficit.
Newsom help steal ALL the FireAid money that was suppose to go to the brush fire victims. His NGO is run by his wife, got millions of it out of $100 million. The rest to friends NGO’s.
The victims got nothing and only about 24 homes out of about 9,000 structures have gotten permits to build at a higher cost because of all the red tape the local and state gov’t have created.
In Malibu just 1 home is being built and only because it had a permit prior to the fire. It will cost $2.5 million just for the foundation of concrete before the rest of the 2 story 6,000 sq/ft home is started.
The homes could use telephone poles for the foundations as worked for the past 100 years but the unelected 15 member Coastal Commission appointed by Newsom want the beach to return as it was before man showed up.
One citizen one vote.
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