Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a major, coordinated federal and state crackdown on massive fraud schemes across Ohio. AAG Blanche detailed a 32-count indictment involving state employees, a scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, the COVID-19 relief program PPP, and emphasized the administration’s relentless pursuit of law and order to protect American taxpayers.
Acting AG Blanche outlined a partnership with officials in the state of Ohio that has now identified thousands of individuals and groups that are under investigation and/or facing indictment as a result of the findings so far. [DOJ Press Release Here] Press Conference Below:
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DOJ – The Justice Department today announced unprecedented federal and state cooperation in Ohio in the fight against fraud, including partnerships and a data sharing agreement to enhance the detection and prosecution of fraud; federal and state charges against 9 defendants for their alleged participation in over $42 million in fraud; orders of detention this week for three defendants, with two additional defendants pending extradition in connection with an additional $15 million in fraud; and the creation of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list. The charges announced today involve numerous types of fraud, including health care fraud, government program fraud, and consumer fraud schemes.
“Ohio is leading the charge in the fight against fraud, and some states should take notice,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Working closely with Ohio officials, the Department of Justice dismantled a sophisticated Medicaid fraud scheme that exploited taxpayers to fund exotic cars and lavish lifestyles. By holding these fraudsters accountable and partnering with the FBI on a robust Most Wanted fraudster list, we are pursuing fraud more aggressively than ever. No fraud scheme is beyond our reach.”
“The Fraud Division is building a replicable model to combat the full range of fraudsters that are preying on Americans across the country,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s Fraud Division. “Whether its health care, emergency relief funds, or consumer frauds, fraudsters go where the money flows, and with our enhanced data analytics tools, dedicated prosecutors, and federal and state partners, the days of oversight lagging and accountability lacking are now over.” (read more)
Arrest and punish them all! This cannot be allowed to continue and examples must be made out of these fraudsters. The ones coordinating this deserve the harshest punishments. Arrest and prosecute 11an Omar or it’s all for show.
And DEPORT them…stat.
Yes…I am here.
Mike DeWine said that it ain’t no big thing. At least I think that’s what he said through his Covid mask.
DeRino is the milquiest of milquetoasts
Milquetoast is sturdy, robust, and stalwart compared to DeWiney.
Correct Roadrunner. In fact, a few months ago, the office of Gov. DeWine dismissed claims of fraud related to daycare centers as ‘the cost of doing business”. Kinda sounds like a ‘scratch my back & I’ll scratch yours’ kinda situation. That RINO-flavored Kebler elf needs to go!
He must be on the benefit train.
DeWine and all self-serving JUDAS politicians in all STATES, would hold a whole different attitude … IF it was the respective STATE — and that STATE alone — that was responsible for footing the bill for and policing each of their MASSIVELY CORRUPT “social” programs.
IOW: the FED GOVT — read: Federally collected taxes, from TAXPAYERS all over the country — must play absolutely NO ROLE in any and all of these optional “social” programs. [All such programs must be LOCAL with total local responsibilities and accountabilities. They are NOT FEDERAL.] Where further, it could be argued that our GOVT — at any level, whether at Fed or local State House — should not be involved in any of these COMPELLED TAX PROGRAMS, better described as compelled wealth redistribution … all of which are unconstitutional.
Question: If any STATE, by itself and its own internal resources, is NOT ABLE to “take care” of the needs of its own citizens — assuming such needs are addressed Constitutionally — why is that entity even a STATE? [This is somewhat the reason POTUS Trump suggested to Trudeau that Canada become our 51st State … that is, after Trudeau told DJT that, without the heavy Canadian tariffs on USA goods, Canada could not survive independently.]
BONUS Question: The anti-American 17th Amendment, enacted during the term of the despicable Woodrow Wilson, has, since then, resulted in untold social and economic damage to many [all?] phases of our NATION. Are readers here for or against the REPEAL of this legislative disaster?
[Here is a hint for a possible response to the Bonus Question: Among many other things, it is largely because of the highly detrimental influences of the 17th Amendment that we have so many entities and individuals who are in favor of replacing the Electoral College with a nationwide Popular Vote.
WINNING!
Oh how I love this hammer.
Heck with a little hammer, let’s see a huge pick axe to CA and MN!
NO MERCY!
I hope they will follow all the fraud not only in benefit payments but in defense and military aid that flows through the fingers of our Congress Critters.
I would love to see several handcuffed and walked off the floor of the House and the Senate!
Scumbag John Bolton got off with a $2m fine for squirreling away classified documents to use for his TDS book. They wanted to imprison Trump for the same thing and he had declassification powers
Excellent! Now do Washington.
There won’t be hardly a soul left!
Better than nothing, but:
How much is annually lost to fraud in the US according to the GAO?
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.
Key details:
– Annual loss range: $233 billion – $521 billion
– Most conservative estimate: $233 billion per year
– Data period: Fiscal years 2018–2022
– 5-year total (conservative): At least $1.165 trillion
– Percentage of federal spending: About 3–7% in fraud losses annually
The range reflects different risk environments during the study period, and the GAO notes that no area of the federal government is immune to fraud.
How tall is a stack of $1.165 trillion worth of crisp new $100 bills and how far would they reach if laid end to end?
Stacked: 791 miles tall
That is approximately 3.16 times higher than the International Space Station’s orbit.
Laid end-to-end: 1,129,010 miles
This is about:
4.7 times the distance to the Moon (238,900 miles × 4.7)
45 times around Earth’s equator (24,901 miles × 45)
Only a trillion bucks.
No biggie…..Wink wink oink
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly. Figures like billions and trillions are so casually thrown around until something like that is seen.
The AI showed its work which is correct, but I didn’t include it. Don’t believe it? Just ask the same question to any AI. I used https://www.perplexity.ai/ since Musk’s Grok has been too busy for free accounts too often lately.
Budgets for these government functions need to be cut by the amount of estimated fraud. And the cuts need to continue until all fraud is stopped.
The government has too much of the people’s money, so much that they are losing it and giving it away to criminals.
I suggest your estimates are greatly underestimated. Multiply them all by 5 will be closer to reality.
Amid all this fraud there is still no discussion about the government doling out money.
In very limited instances I could see the necessity of providing assistance to genuinely needy citizens, but not much else.
Giving away money was never supposed to be the role of our government but it seems that’s all they do now.
Bribes and grift are all they’re focused on.
This kind of stuff makes me wonder why I pay taxes. Sick of it.
It seems especially painful when you are self-employed and physically write the checks to the government agencies.
I was once investigated for running a puns-i scheme 🙂
Arrest Fauxi! Why waste time and resources on the peons?
It appears that all this fraud and theft was standard business practice, until Donald Trump.
CODB!
Cost of Doing Business
I hope this is not too much to ask; but I wonder if there will be as time goes on a score kept, perhaps by state, of all of the fraud found and prosecuted, by people ripping off the US taxpayers.
YES!!!!
This can only happen if higher ups are involved.
higher ups involved…..prosicuted!
This is why we have a deficit around 40 trillion dollars
Fraud…Thieves mostly every bit tied to our own corrupt politicians.
Ler’s not pretend that these were Elon Musk type fraudsters who cunningly created extensive computer programs to steal all of this money. With the tens of thousands who have defrauded the government so easily for billions of dollars, it’s obvious that there were no requirements, no security, no oversight, no followup, no accounting, no supervision. These weren’t smart people. It was one person in the right spot passing through friends, family and creating fake organizations.
That said, possibly the only defense (and it may work in ‘certain jurisdictions,’ is to claim entrapment by government. If it was that easy, it’s obvious the (racist) government was setting up ignorant and innocent people of color (you may add culture, gay, female, adhd, etc) to steal so much that they would never be able to pay it back, nor should they be punished for what the government did to them.
If there had been secure systems in place, they never would have done it.
Now let’s see how many RINOs vote against Blanche for AG after this.
Well… Les Wexner would be a damn good start in Ohio. PPP and Covid assistance fraud is SMALL POTATOES compared to Les Wexner and his Epstein connectors. I’m sure Vivek Ramaswampy will get right on that when he gets the governorship. Spit.
How many of our politicians have and still are involved with massive fraud?
In 2018 I bookmarked this article on Somalis flying out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport weekly with suitcases filled with millions of dollars stolen from American public assistance programs.
“Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why?”
“Published May 14, 2018 2:00pm CDT”
“On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.”
“Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.”
https://www.fox9.com/news/millions-of-dollars-in-suitcases-fly-out-of-msp-but-why
A good investment for Americans would be in putting money into building jails. Many more will be needed. Perhaps the government needs to do what Cuba used to do: Prisoners had to do work to pay off their debt while in jail or have their sentences extended.
Are we saving Minnesota for last because they won the first half of this year on the fraud contest?
Reminds me of the song “My City Was Gone” by The Pretenders. Way to go OHIO
From our friends at TGP:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/us-customs-border-protection-interdicts-boat-carrying-240/
“240 Migrants en route to the US”
Also from our friends at Faux—my FL HOR Rep…Brian Mast….Touche for Tlaib…./sarc…this one is good!
“Obernolte ultimately struck the Ohio lawmaker’s words from the record after the House floor was frozen for more than an hour while lawmakers deliberated.
Miller was barred from speaking on the House floor for the rest of Wednesday.”
“House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., then delivered a statement on Miller’s behalf, saying, “Yes, I said it. I own it, and I stand by it.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/see-it-house-floor-erupts-after-gop-lawmaker-accuses-tlaib-hezbollah-ties
Eliminate fraud, waste and abuse and there is no budget deficit.
As long as any welfare program exists, there will be fraud. Cut the size and extent of these programs and much of it will disappear automatically. These prosecutions are just like putting band-aids over cancer.