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Fraudsters lured homeless addicts to California with free flights, groceries and more: feds
New York Post ^ | 22 October 2026 | Ben Chapman

Posted on 10/23/2026 11:04:15 AM PDT by fella

At least 6,000 homeless addicts — many from out of state — were lured to California detox centers by “body brokers” working for a pair of accused fraudsters in a $1.6 billion rehab scheme considered the largest in history, federal prosecutors revealed.

Los Angeles rehab king David Young, 71, and his son Nathan Young, 39, allegedly offered free flights, groceries and other perks as part of their substance abuse scam to traffic addicts into dozens of California rehab centers, according to Department of Justice prosecutors.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: california; davidyoung; losangeles; nathanyoung
Got to wonder how much of these ill gotten gains became political campaign donations?
1 posted on 10/23/2026 11:04:15 AM PDT by fella
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To: fella

I’m enjoying thinking of California taking all the garbage, in all ways, for the rest of the country.

The official Poop Map across San Francisco is always good, for a laugh.

That zany California!


2 posted on 10/23/2026 11:14:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

NYC could send a train or two full west and solve their problem.


3 posted on 10/23/2026 11:36:25 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: fella

Why are they calling these two “fraudsters”???? Biden offered South American criminals free flights to come to the US to get food stamps, Welfare, free housing, Obama phones, free health care and all kids of other free benes paid for by the US taxpayer. That’s all these two are doing. And isn’t California a sanctuary state that welcome’s the world’s garbage to come to their state?


4 posted on 10/23/2026 12:04:32 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Do Re Mi
by Woody Guthrie. ((Communist Pary member))

Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin’ home every day,
Beatin’ the hot old dusty way to the California line.
‘Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin’ out of that old dust bowl,
They think they’re goin’ to a sugar bowl, but here’s what they find
Now, the police at the port of entry say,
“You’re number fourteen thousand for today.”

Oh, if you ain’t got the do re mi, folks, you ain’t got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.

you ain’t got the do re mi, boys, you ain’t got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.

...


5 posted on 10/23/2026 12:14:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: fella

Why do these scams almost always be carred out by foreigners living in our country?


6 posted on 10/23/2026 4:26:15 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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Foreign thieves, gangsters, thugs, criminals all view the USA as “ Gold Mountain” .

With the Swamp government bending over to welcome the foreign thieves, the gangs rape, rob and kill Americans free from retribution. It’s a paradise for them.

Set up shop in a blue state sanctuary city . You’d have to be a screw up of a thug to fail here.


7 posted on 10/23/2026 4:33:59 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: fella

heck of a racket they had going, how much was the DNC’s cut?


8 posted on 10/24/2026 5:13:51 AM PDT by eyeamok
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