Posted on 07/22/2026 5:27:07 PM PDT by Libloather
If Team Trump’s anti-fraud efforts sometimes look a bit all-over-the-map, that’s because the map is so incredibly large.
The feds spend over $7 billion a year, and fraudsters look to cash in on every dime; with Vice President JD Vance on point, the White House has organized a full-court press to fight back.
One day this week, the Justice Department announced it had finally nabbed a fugitive Medicare fraudster on the lam since 2022, who allegedly stole more than half a billion dollars, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare-Medicaid czar Dr. Mehmet Oz froze over $1 billion in funding to California and Minnesota over apparent Medicaid fraud.
About the same time, Scott Bessent’s Treasury stopped $100 million in tax money going to dead people thanks to new verification procedures, while the IRS chief revealed that a recent scrub of the Social Security Number database found that one in 10 recipients were erroneously listed.
That follows recent news of blatant adult-day-care scams in Queens and a drive to claw back $1 billion in COVID-era unemployment fraud that may still be nabbing $2 million a day in New York.
Last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against 455 people for $6.5 billion in health-care fraud.
All this is robbery of the taxpayers and of the folks these government programs are supposed to help: That should outrage Republicans and Democrats alike.
And politicians of both parties should be embarrassed that the crackdowns are only coming now, years after fraudsters notoriously made off with tens or even hundreds of billions in COVID-relief monies.
Yes, some of the crackdown relies on new technology: Kennedy touted the use of AI, advanced analytics and “other cutting-edge tools” to ID suspicious Medicaid outlays.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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More good news...
Always prefer to pick off the low-hanging fruit...
How many arrest have been made so far, other than the one listed in the story?
The feds spend over $7 billion a year,
NYPost needs editors.
In one category...
The Medicare-Medicaid system is designed to make people on Capitol Hill wealthy. They should start there.
Post of the year!
Key question: what does this statement in the 2nd paragraph of the New York Post story mean?
The feds (federal government) spend quite a bit more than $7 billion year across the board. Is this an error in the story? Does the author mean the feds spend $7 billion a year discovering fraud? I'm confused. Thanks... |
Great point, MacNaughton. Great graphic!
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