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BREAKING: In an incredible development, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office and AG James Uthmeier just pledged 100% FULL COOPERATION with Dr. Oz's new investigation into rampant healthcare fraud in Florida
X ^ | 03/17/2026 | Eric Daugherty

Posted on 03/17/2026 7:01:05 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible development, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office and AG James Uthmeier just pledged 100% FULL COOPERATION with Dr. Oz's new investigation into rampant healthcare fraud in Florida

See how EASY it is, Minnesota and California?! πŸ‘πŸ»β˜€οΈ

Trump CMS chief Dr. Oz said he found "horrifying" amounts of healthcare fraud in the state, and is seeking more documentation

In response, DeSantis' chief of staff replied Florida is "working closely" with CMS

"We have zero tolerance for waste, fraud, and abuse β€” and we will aggressively deploy every resource necessary to root it out at any level in our state. Stay tuned."

Attorney General Uthmeier said: "Just recently, our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested a man who was stealing Medicaid money meant to provide transportation services for disabled children."

"The Medicaid system is overwhelmed with fraud and abuse, and we look forward to working with Dr. Oz on these issues!"

FLORIDA DOES IT RIGHT.

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; desantis; droz; florida; fraud; healtcare; healthcare; theft; trumpfraudpardons

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1 posted on 03/17/2026 7:01:05 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

This is how it’s done. Rather than casting aspersions on the auditors’ work with them. It is in everybody’s interest except the fraudsters’ to get rid of it.

What it also tells me is that in states like Minnesota and Arizona, the elected officials are in on the fraud.


2 posted on 03/17/2026 7:17:14 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: SmokingJoe

Florida has been the epicenter of Medicare abuse for decades.

Here’s a related story from last year:

A South Florida man sentenced to 50 years in prison for ripping off tens of millions of dollars from Medicare was among the more than two dozen people whom President Donald Trump granted clemency to this week. Lawrence Duran β€” the former co-owner of American Therapeutic Corp., a Miami-based company that ran seven healthcare clinics between South Florida and Orlando β€” pleaded guilty in May 2011 to multiple felonies, including defrauding Medicare, healthcare fraud and money laundering.

....Duran and his girlfriend, Marianella Valera, the co-owner of the company and one of its therapists, filed 866,000 false claims with Medicare and received more than $87 million from their scheme, according to court records.


3 posted on 03/17/2026 7:22:55 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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To: SmokingJoe

If they’re looking at “rampant healthcare fraud” in Florida, shouldn’t they be looking into Rick Scott?


4 posted on 03/17/2026 7:35:14 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Miami Rebel

That pardon also wiped out $87 million in restitution agreed to in Duran’s guilty plea.


5 posted on 03/17/2026 8:00:12 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: SmokingJoe

It’s about time, healthcare fraud in Florida is nothing new.


6 posted on 03/17/2026 9:05:31 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Another day, another billion lost in fraud. I am so sick of the massive amounts being stolen and nobody until now cared.


7 posted on 03/17/2026 9:54:11 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: SmokingJoe

Good. It takes a half of a year for someone in desperate need to get medicaid in Florida while illegals get ok’d by 1 visit.


8 posted on 03/18/2026 5:06:18 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Mlheureux

And millions of citizens are frauding Medicaid. I just turned someone in for 5 years of medicaid fraud. Working the whole time for cash. I doubt if they’ll even really investigate it even though I gave them all the info. Pics of her all over the facebook page of the place she is working. Cash going straight into her bank account. Actually a slam dunk. We’ll see.


9 posted on 03/18/2026 5:57:30 AM PDT by sheana
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To: SmokingJoe

This is good but why are we even paying taxes anymore?

It seems they fiat currency known as the US dollar is simply made up as it goes along.


10 posted on 03/18/2026 6:15:14 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

I’ve been saying that for awhile. I think that “money” doesn’t mean much any more. It’s not backed by gold. It’s not backed by the good faith of a nation that pays its debts ($40T debt? Not going to be paid). And now we have bitcoin which is treated by many people as a viable currency although it is backed by precisely nothing. At this point, I don’t think money is a real thing any more and I think paying taxes is stupid and unecessary.


11 posted on 03/18/2026 6:20:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

The irony is that bitcoin at least is difficult to produce and takes energy, compute power, and time. The US Dollar? About 5 minutes and any number can be entered into the computer to create more of it.


12 posted on 03/18/2026 6:32:54 AM PDT by CodeToad
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