DOJ charges 10 Southern California defendants in largest federal healthcare fraud crackdown in US history

Fox News via MSN ^ | Jan. 24, 2026 | Michael Sinkewicz

[libstripper]

Federal authorities on Tuesday charged 10 Southern California defendants in a series of healthcare fraud schemes, including one case involving nearly $270 million in fraudulent Medi-Cal claims and another that allegedly defrauded Medicare out of approximately $27 million.

The charges were part of the Justice Department's broader "2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown," which resulted in charges against 455 defendants nationwide in schemes involving more than $6.5 billion in alleged fraud.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche described the operation as "the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating healthcare fraud in history."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ca; democratincompetence; democrtcorruption; fraud; healthcare; highspeedrail

[libstripper]

I suspect this couldn't have happened without active cooperation of many CA DemonRats, who've also dipped their beaks in the honey pot.

[Liz]

The 10 So/Cal defendants charged by the DOJ in the 2026 Ntl
Health Care Fraud Takedown are linked to two major schemes:
<><>a $270 million Medi-Cal prescription fraud operation
<><>Christina Mareik (AKA Sanchez Hernandez), Whittier. Paul Richard Randall, Orange.
<><>defendants Kyrollos Mekail. Patricia Anderson.
<><>a $27M Medicare Hospice Scheme
<><>Oren David Shachar, Van Nuys. Abraham Shin of Corona.Jeannie Choi,Torrance.
<><>Additional Defendants (Lab Testing Scheme) Brenda Lee Lopez of Norwalk, CA.

Note: While the Department of Justice announced charges for exactly 10 defendants in this specific Southern California regional sweep, official case documents and dockets are limited to the public release of the primary operators and organizers highlighted above.

[Leaning Right]

I continue to be amazed that there is evidently no oversight with these programs. No random checking of claims. No surprise visits.

Program supervisors need to be fired.
But of course they won’t be.

[pas]

Agree and I would bet it is way more widespread.

[Dan Zachary]

Another day, another $300 million in fraud. Thank you dems and the Biden administration.

[Merrick]

Quit sending clicks to that POS reposting MSN!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/doj-charges-southern-california-healthcare-fraud-defendants

[nikos1121]

Easily 1 trillion dollars of know fraud thus far if you add MN and the other states.

[Liz]

Yikes.

[spintreebob]

Thank Biden? Welfare greatly expanded and became very complex under Obama. Biden was only a do-nothing VP. In 2013-14 Deloitte designed and developed the IES Integrated Eligibility System and its EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index.

Deloitte IES is the single biggest fraudster and the software and database that makes much of the other fraud possible.

Deloitte is used in both R and D states, in CA TX FL GA TN KY IL WI MI PA NY, etc in most states, all the big states.

In 2013-14 the CIO of GA Dept of Community Health went to great lengths to get Deloitte to properly design and develop IES. Deloitte ignored him. Deloitte intentionally designed and developed IES to be FRAUD and to be the door to fraud by others.

[Dan Zachary]

Welfare greatly expanded and became very complex under Obama.

Obama, biden. Same thing.

"President Biden has already exceeded that level (social security) by sending new monthly benefits to an estimated 65 million children across 39 million families — amounting to 30 percent of all households in America."

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