California has emerged as America’s new epicenter of fraud-related prosecutions, publicity, and outcry—with multibillion-dollar fraud estimates dwarfing the massive fraud problems that have plagued Minnesota. That midwestern state’s systemic problems with fraudsters rose to prominence late last year, touching off scrutiny of federally funded aid programs across the nation.
Although fraud investigations have ramped up nationwide at President Donald Trump’s direction, the main spotlight shifted to California recently after Dr. Mehmet Oz—who heads the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services—began raising alarms over the extent of fraud there.
“If you thought the fraud was out of control in Minnesota, wait until you learn about what’s happening in California,” Oz wrote in a social media post earlier this year….