{"id":253299,"date":"2026-04-05T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:30:07","slug":"california-leaders-under-scrutiny-over-medicare-fraud-allegations-as-doj-cracks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253299\/","title":{"rendered":"California leaders under scrutiny over Medicare fraud allegations as DOJ cracks down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              San Francisco political commentator Richie Greenberg reacts to a sweeping federal crackdown on an alleged millions in California Medicare fraud, Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s response, and growing scrutiny over oversight failures on \u2018Fox Report Weekend.\u2019\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">The Department of Justice launched &#8216;Operation Never Say Die,&#8217; charging 15 individuals in a $60 million Medicare hospice fraud scheme across Southern California. Suspects allegedly recruited healthy patients for monthly kickbacks. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli details how this fraud continued for years due to lax state licensing. Richie Greenberg and Mehmet Oz criticize Governor Gavin Newsom and California officials for inaction on taxpayer fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco political commentator Richie Greenberg reacts to a sweeping federal crackdown on an alleged millions in California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,112356,4594,108384,108385,13,18552,112357,108387,108383],"class_list":{"0":"post-253299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-fox-report-weekend","12":"tag-governors","13":"tag-latest-news-videos","14":"tag-on-air","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-shows","17":"tag-state-and-local-controversies","18":"tag-v-video","19":"tag-what-to-watch-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}