{"id":253745,"date":"2026-04-06T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:26:13","slug":"california-leaders-under-scrutiny-over-medicare-fraud-allegations-as-doj-cracks-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253745\/","title":{"rendered":"California leaders under scrutiny over Medicare fraud allegations as DOJ cracks down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"The Department of Justice launched &#8216;Operation Never Say Die,&#8217; charging 15 individuals in a $60 million Medicare hospice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5781,7,9,8,7045,457,75483,15768,80111,85634,1009],"class_list":{"0":"post-253745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-bill-essayli","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-department-of-justice","13":"tag-gavin-newsom","14":"tag-individuals","15":"tag-medicare","16":"tag-mehmet-oz","17":"tag-richie-greenberg","18":"tag-southern-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253745","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=253745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}