California Commits Massive Medicaid Fraud

California is indeed the Golden State where Medicaid is concerned. The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that, by exploiting Obamacare’s expansion of the program, California has enrolled hundreds of thousands of ineligible adults in Medicaid. Consequently, the state has bilked the federal government out of more than $1 billion in funding to which the state was not entitled. Indeed, these figures probably understate the amount of money that California officials have fraudulently extracted from the taxpayers. The OIG sampled a mere six-month period, from October 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015, to arrive at its damning assessment.

If the word “fraud” seems over the top, consider what happens to doctors who filch Medicaid funds to which they aren’t entitled. This case, reported by the Boston Globe, is typical: “A Brookline doctor has been sentenced to 11 months in jail and ordered to pay $9.3 million for running a Medicaid fraud scheme.” Likewise, Michigan CBS affiliate WNEM reports that a Saginaw doctor “was charged with three felony counts of Medicaid fraud.… Each charge is punishable by up to four years in prison and a $50,000 fine.” Such cases are prosecuted every day and the charge pursued by the authorities is “fraud.” So, isn’t the skullduggery described below also fraud?

"On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that the State agency made Medicaid payments of $628,838,417 (Federal share) on behalf of 366,078 ineligible beneficiaries and $402,358,529 (Federal share) on behalf of 79,055 potentially ineligible beneficiaries."

Don’t be confused by the vague bureaucratic vernacular used in the above passage. When the OIG says, “the State agency made Medicaid payments (Federal Share),” it means all of the money used to cover these ineligible enrollees was provided by the federal government.

A US Comptroller General said Medicare, Medicaid (and the Earned Income Tax Credit) account for 75 percent of the trillion stolen by refugees (by falsifying govt apps).

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CIRCA 2012 This monstrous Medicare fraud happened in the district of holier-than-thou Democrat Chuck Schumer.

REFERENCE---A Medicaid Fraud Ring In Brooklyn by Russian
Refugees---- Constituents of Sen Charles Scuhumer (Dem-NY)
By Julia Ioffe, NY Magazine, published March 2, 2012

In March 2012, thirty-six Russians---Soviet immigrants----were arrested in Brooklyn, New York for plotting to bilk US health-insurance companies out of a quarter of a billion tax dollars.

The plot, according to the NY Times, involved ten doctors, nine clinics, and a hundred and five corporations: “The ring falsified official US govt documennts demanding tax dollars----reimbursements for a mountain of excessive and unnecessary medical treatments that were never done.

The Russian fraudsters were so brazen that they already had in-place three separate billing-processing companies just to handle the paperwork.....to get the tax dollars into their greedy hands faster.

SOURCE: MEDICAID FRAUD IN BRIGHTON BEACH, BROOKLYN

https://www.bing.com/search?q=russian%20medicaid%20fraud%20in%20Brighton%20beach&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=russian%20medicaid%20fraud%20in%20brighton%20beach&sc=0-39&sk=&cvid=32789ED4D3D84A92BD6C37981C7C292F

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NOTES---What’s remarkable here is just how unremarkable the story is, coming, as it does, out of Sen Schumer's district-----the Russia-centric Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is famous for its Russian delicacies, entertainment, a population of highly-inflected Russian dialects, but mostly for its concentration of insurance fraud.

The NY Times reports, “Brighton Beach has one of the highest rates of health care fraud in the nation, according to federal statistics.

An analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (agency regulates those two programs), shows that more health care providers in the Brighton Beach ZIP code are currently barred from the programs for malfeasance than in almost any other ZIP code in the United States.

There is also the certainty that Sen Schumer aided the Russian emigres and counted on their votes to stay in Congress.

<><>Did they falsify US govt documents to unlawfully receive, monthly SS checks, claiming "asylum?"

<><> Does he have a sub-prime mortgage obtained by falsifying bank documents?

<><> Did they make false claims on IRS forms in order to get EITC refunds?

<><> Do they have a legal driver's license?

<><> Do they have valid passports?

<><> How many times did they wire-transfer money back to their homelands--where they apparently absconded when the heat was on?

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OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT--- Based on Sen Schumer's statements (and Senate vote for amnesty), Schumer approves the use of stolen SS numbers and multiple identities to defraud. The FBI should interrogate individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify documents for additional insider schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by Schumer's constituents.

Crimes might include---conspiracy. collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extorting taxpayers, theft of govt monies, misuse of public office and government positions.

SENATOR SCHUMER IS PUSHING THE TRUMP/RUSSIAN COLLUSION NONSENSE---Schumer disdains limited govt conservatives----he says government can be a "force for good"......Yeah, good.....for himself. Based on Sen Schumer's statements (and his Senate vote for amnesty), Schumer approves the use of stolen SS numbers and multiple identities to defraud. The FBI should gather evidence of multiple schemes to falsify and forge official documents (incurs several felonies). The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by Schumer's constituents.

SEN SCHUMER MUST HAVE SPRUNG INTO ACTION TO DEFEND AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
BEING RIPPED OFF BY HIS RUSSIAN CONSTITUENTS...... RIGHT?

THESE ARE CHUCKIE'S CONSTITUENTS---According to a NYC US Atty, 25 current and former Russian diplomats and 24 of their spouses allegedly participated in a scheme to illegally obtain Medicaid benefits by underreporting their income or falsely claiming that their children were US citizens. For nearly a decade, they milked the system of $1.5 million in benefits. The staff of Russian diplomatic offices in the US allegedly supplied false documentation to officials to bilk Medicaid.

The bilk was pulled off smoothly for decades.....and may have had official help----for a price. L/E needs to determine if Sen Schumer benefited from this fraud----and determine the ways he may have facilitated fraud.

Are Schumer's constituents hiding large amounts of assets from the courts adjudicating the Medicaid fraud?

<>>< Did Schumer use tax-paid offices to help facilitate felonies?

<><> Were tax dollars allocated to Schumer's constituents, collected under several identities?

<><> Were hefty bundles of tax dollars wired offshore?

<><> Many of the diplos skipped town when the heat was on. Did they stiff US banks for fraudulent sub-prime mtges (which we taxpayers have to bailout).

How many ways are Schumer's constituents riding the US gravy train---this would be very easy to find out. Are they receiving:

UI, SSI, Workmen's Comp,

TANF (temporary assistance to needy families),

WICS (food assistance),

subsidized Section 8 shelter,

ObamaPhone subsidies,

Utility Assistance subsidies,

$5000 a year EITC checks per identity,

hefty monthly "asylum" checks from SS ....

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<><> Did any of these diplos give Schumer campaign contributions?

<><>Did they donate to Schumer using their own names ---or the names of others?

<><> Did any of these people illegally vote for Schumer?

<><> Did Schumer use his tax-paid Senate offices to aid abet felonies?

<><> Do any of these diplos receive EITC refunds?

<><> Did Chuckie use his govt offices and US govt resources to setup other freebies for these criminals?

<><> Did they receive welfare, food stamps, SSI, free medical care, Section 8 housing, UI, Workmen's comp under several identiti

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