Bill Essayli<\/a>, told The National News Desk this week, multiple investigations are currently underway.<\/p>\nI have said that we do have multiple election fraud investigations opened. We are looking into them. Some investigations are further along than others,\u201d said Essayli. \u201cUnder DOJ policy, I can’t discuss the specifics of those but just know that we will follow the evidence in each of those cases. We will see where it leads us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Aside from elections, Essayli detailed his ‘Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force.’ Saying the money “thrown around to the homeless industrial complex is astonishing.”<\/p>\n
Within a few months of setting that up we started bringing criminal charges. We’ve charged, I believe, at least four indictments to date and the loss is about $100 million so far,\u201d Essayli said.<\/p>\n
Essayli also shared an update on the massive healthcare fraud crackdown in the state. He said they’ve already charged billions of dollars in fraud. Including one case where a man pled guilty to defrauding the California Medi-Cal system out of about $200 million within 11 months.<\/p>\n
Basically, the state of California suspended their pre-authorization requirements on a website, and he was able to submit over $200 million worth of bills in that short window and the state just paid it out,\u201d said Essayli.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, California Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s administration has consistently pushed back on federal fraud claims. Highlighting the state’s history of revoking licenses in vulnerable sectors like hospice care. Newsom also announced in a social media video this week that he and his wife are being investigated by the DOJ. He strongly criticized the probe and framed it as politically motivated.<\/p>\n
He’s turned the levers of government into his own personal power ministries to reward cronies and to try and jail his opponents,\u201d Newsom said.Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n
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Citing a person familiar with the matter, Politico reported this week that the government has been investigating Newsom\u2019s orbit for roughly a year. Originating with whistleblower tips which have focused on his wife\u2019s taxes and his former chief of staff. The DOJ has declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 From election integrity to healthcare and even homelessness, federal officials are actively cracking down on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-711363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}