Blatant Medicaid fraud in Queens that AG Letitia James can’t bother to notice

NY Post ^ | 7/16/26 | Post Editorial Board

[Libloather]

For fresh proof of how little New York authorities care about social-services fraud, consider the curious case of adult daycares in Flushing.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, puts out that within a one-mile radius in the Queens neighborhood, a full 64 Social Adult Day Care centers operate, with thousands upon thousands of supposed elderly enrollees.

This reeks: Over the past three years, such New York senior centers have generated $2.5 billion in billings, with $2.1 billion of that coming from Flushing.

Flushing’s Medicaid-eligible senior population grew by 20% from 2018 to 2024, yet the number of seniors billed by social adult daycares surged by 390%.

How convenient that electronic sign-up sheets are usually the only thing SADCs need to provide to get reimbursed.

To be clear, some centers have real enrollees, but then again they bribe seniors with monthly $500 kickbacks — but that payout drops to $300 if they actually show up for services.

Nor do the scams stop there: Centers team up with pharmacies and durable medical equipment stores (one Flushing entrepreneur was running three such “stores” out of his apartment), steering enrollees toward unneeded medications or wheelchairs to generate more taxpayer reimbursements.

And it would all continue on, absent Team Trump’s war on fraud.

Plainly, state Attorney General Tish James and other top officials just don’t care; they see it as free money (no matter how much goes to fraudsters), as government-funded personal assistance has become the state’s fastest-growing industry — jumping from $2.5 billion in 2019 to $12 billion in 2026.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: fraud; letitia; medicaid; nyc

[Libloather]

Letitia sounds lazy. Too many Twinkies?

[FlingWingFlyer]

She’s a real pig. She needs to get a job waitressing at The Pork Chop, Biscuits and Gravy Warehouse.

[frank ballenger]

Laetitia: You come in here and interrupt me while my nails are getting done and you’ll regret it. No politics in here.

[frank ballenger]

She’s a real pig. She needs to get a job waitressing at The Pork Chop, Biscuits and Gravy Warehouse.

She failed at those and was told to try the Attorney General thing.

[gnickgnack2]

Her record is intact.

[chopperk]

Latetia gets a cut.

[KitJ]

"Over the past three years, such New York senior centers have generated $2.5 billion in billings, with $2.1 billion of that coming from Flushing"

That's a LOT of money.

If there's anything leftover from taxes, can the government please help U.S. ranchers, farmers, and people that make this country great and feed the world?

A billion dollars would go a long way to support our own citizens.

Not like the trillions spent for "shovel ready" jobs that disappeared under democrats.

[Liz]

State AG Tish James (campaigned to “get Trump”)
doesnt even know what her tax-paid job is.

She ignores blatant fraud......for example, govt-funded “personal
assistance” skyrocketing from $2.5B in 2019 to $12B in 2026.

Govt fraud is her state’s fastest-growing industry.