[PJMedia] We have found the Democrats' evil king. After millions and maybe even billions spent from Neville Roy Singham's pocket and a handful of Saturday protests in search of the "king" to guillotine, French Revolution style, we have found the man who has been crowned the "King of Fraud."
Take a bow, Gavin Newsom.
Welcome to your weekly West Coast, Messed Coast™ update, where this week the feds pulled the card, as we used to say, of Gov. Gavin Newsom. He was found wanting. And he was really quite cranky about it.
GOLDEN SOMBRERO FOR THE 'KING OF FRAUD'
On Thursday, the man whom the Senate has still failed to confirm as U.S. Attorney, Bill Essayli (great job, John Thune), announced a series of busts of alleged hospice care fraudsters. One of the alleged bad hombres was a woman who ran a scam from prison, where she was already serving time for… fraud.
The U.S. Attorney who just busted the hospice care fraudsters declared California is the "Kingdom of Fraud" and crowned Gavin Newsom king of it all.
An estimated $146 BILLION has been lost to fraud in California Medicaid spending and related programs since Gavin Newsom took office in 2019. According to independent investigator Chris Rufo, Newsom has lost 25% of California's Medicaid budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings.
At a presser on Thursday announcing the arrest of eight alleged fraudsters for stealing more than $50 million, Essayli declared that, "This is not just a fraud problem; this is a California problem. I want to be very frank about this."
Geez, no wonder the guy can't get confirmed by the Senate — he speaks the truth.
But Essayli was just getting started.
"I call California the 'Kingdom of Fraud,'" he said. "If you look at the EDD fraud, the SNAP benefits fraud, the hospice fraud, the homeless fraud… one thing is in common: No vetting. No checking. Money goes out the door with no questions asked. No receipts. No checking up on them."
To recap, Gavin Newsom has presided as king over these colossal rip-offs of American and California taxpayers:
Covid-era EDD (employment) fraud
SNAP rip-offs
Hospice fraud
Homeless fraud
In baseball, they call such a disaster a Golden Sombrero. In politics, they run for president.
Essayli, who was flanked by the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the FBI, and assorted other law enforcement outlets, said that Newsom hasn't even bothered to fix oversight of these programs as demanded by California state auditors.
Petulant Gavin wasn't happy that Essayli also noted that Newsom had rolled up 280 fraudsters over his years in office, while the feds had done more in a month. Newsom blamed Trump, of course, saying the administration was "home to the biggest fraudsters on Earth," and took issue with blaming him for an "issue with THEIR federal programs." Of course, as Essayli explained, the "purse is the feds'" but the state runs the program.
There seems to be a very laissez-faire attitude about spending other people's money on their mismanagement.
"The federal government is the purse. All the money comes from the federal government. But it is administered through the states," explained Essayli. "California is responsible for issuing hospice licenses. They're responsible for regulating doctors and nurses. And the problem that you see in California is that there is no vetting. There is no checking. They do not care because it is not their money, is the way the state of California looks at it."
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Bilal Ali "Bill" Essayli is an American lawyer and politician who currently serves as the First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California. He previously served as the interim United States attorney for the Central District of California from April to July 2025. A federal judge ruled that he had illegally served as the acting US Attorney Continued in Wikipedia
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“I want Congress to have their part in the Medicare fraud that’s going on,” Macedo said. “If this is happening in California, it’s happening in other states. They have the ability to oversee the funding for Medicare, and I’m hoping they also put pressure on the state of California to enact these regulations to make sure there are fraud controls in place.”
California is a cash machine. The state collects some of the country’s highest income, business, and fuel taxes, and now spends more than $300 billion per year. And yet, everywhere you look, California seems to be falling apart.
The roads are crumbling. Mismanaged wildfires have turned neighborhoods into ash. Drug addiction and homelessness have metastasized, turning parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco into no-go zones. And the cost-of-living crisis is pricing middle-class taxpayers out of basic necessities like groceries and gas, even as the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.
Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going? On paper, it funds hospitals, universities, schools, prisons, infrastructure, and other public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening that California Governor Gavin Newsom does not want you to see: massive, systematic, brazen fraud.
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