{"id":276611,"date":"2026-06-24T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:59:48","slug":"doj-uncovers-6-5-billion-health-care-fraud-scheme-brooklyn-coffee-shop-faces-civil-rights-probe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276611\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ uncovers $6.5 billion health care fraud scheme, Brooklyn coffee shop faces civil rights probe (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department says it has uncovered the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/23\/us-news\/trump-crackdown-uncovers-6-5b-in-fraud-and-your-taxes-were-wasted-on-diamonds-ferraris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health care fraud scheme<\/a> in U.S. history, charging hundreds of defendants in an alleged $6.5 billion Medicare and Medicaid scam. We break down the record-setting takedown, the luxury assets seized, and what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says comes next. Plus, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/22\/us-news\/nyc-coffee-shop-bans-pro-israel-politician-in-nasty-post-despite-promise-to-treat-all-customers-with-unconditional-dignity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn coffee shop<\/a> is under federal investigation after refunding and effectively banning Congressman Dan Goldman over his support for Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department says it has uncovered the largest health care fraud scheme in U.S. history, charging hundreds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,153,396,1082,9,24,91477,63,51060],"class_list":["post-276611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fraud","tag-justice-department","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-postcast","tag-nyc","tag-nypost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}