[FoxNews] Hospice fraud testimony before Congress adds pressure as Le Roux alleges $80B annually in waste and overpayments
Republican congressional candidate and CAL DOGE Director Jenny Rae Le Roux is slamming Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta for failing to crack down on widespread fraud after her watchdog group uncovered multiple cases she says state leaders ignored.
"Every day is opposite day when it comes to Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta," Le Roux told Fox News Digital. "Whatever they say, I generally believe the exact opposite is true and so when Gavin Newsom says that fraud is under control, what that means is that either he's in on it or unwilling to do anything about it."
"They are either unwilling to do anything or they are not wanting to do it, and they're just trying to spin what they are already doing in that way," she added.
California has been at the center of the national fraud spotlight in recent months as the Trump administration has sent resources to the state to look into various accusations of fraud ranging from healthcare to homelessness to nonprofit organizations.
The CEO of a California hospice advocacy group told congressional lawmakers Tuesday that fraud in the industry is flourishing across the state, questioning how numerous fraudulent providers can continue to operate under the nose of regulators.
"You'd be amazed at how many hospices… the door you can walk up to in California and there is nobody there. Five months' worth of mail that you can see stacked… nobody's there," Sheila Clark, the president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA), said. "And that passed a survey. How did that happen?"
Le Roux said her group uncovered what she described as "intentional fraud" in Sacramento, alleging funds are being redirected toward "Democrat base-building." Cal DOGE is a group that works to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in California that was launched in early 2026 by Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
The group says it has uncovered almost $700 million in waste, fraud, and abuse since its founding.
"We have been more effective with a group of volunteers in the last 10 weeks than Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta have since they've been in office," Le Roux said.
She added Bonta’s office wasted resources on legal battles against the Trump administration instead of focusing on fraud patterns that her group identified using artificial intelligence and financial data.
"Rob Bonta's office billed over 150,000 hours a year going after President Trump and the Trump administration's policies that equates to almost 200 lawyers times when you extrapolate it out over an entire year, which is one-sixth of his entire office, and larger than the DOJ office that's actually doing something in California," she said.
Le Roux, a cousin of Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, launched her campaign in March and is running in the GOP primary for California’s 47th Congressional District with a focus on combating fraud.
"It doesn't just happen, it's the normal way of operating, which is why, again, the people who've been perpetrating the fraud and leading the charge on it, Newsom and Bonta, can't be the ones that are actually going to investigate it," she said.
In one example, she said her group uncovered a case where $370 million in cannabis tax revenue was routed through an intermediary and split into smaller grants that went to unrelated programs. She pointed to systemic flaws, including limited federal prosecution for funds "mostly under $1 million."
"There is no oversight, not one report that is required to explain where the money is spent," she said.
As a result, she said that a lack of oversight has contributed to an estimated $80 billion annually in "fraud, waste, or gross overpayments," arguing the problem is systematic.
Amid recent hospice fraud allegations, Le Roux said stronger oversight could have prevented the issue and curbed the fraud. Newsom’s office pushed back, saying enforcement falls to the federal government.
"These hospice agencies that we are now in the process of shutting down were licensed by the state of California," she said. "They should have never been opened. Every piece of oversight that the state of California should have been administrating had not been happening and so this is a California issue."
She said her group is pressuring officials to prosecute fraud.
"Newsom is trying to take credit for doing nothing instead of actually becoming a part of reform in our state, which is by the way, what not just Republicans, but independents and Democrats want desperately," she said.
[MAIL] An alarm has erupted after 15 powerful agricultural spray drones were stolen in a suspected coordinated heist in New Jersey last month.
A report from The High Side claimed the FBI is investigating the theft amid fears the machines could be used to disperse dangerous materials.
Agricultural drones are built for precision and designed to disperse large amounts of liquid over targeted areas using programmed GPS routes.
That same capability has troubled counterterrorism officials since the post-9/11 years, when fears centered on crop-duster planes flown by a lone pilot. Experts told The Hide Side that there could be 'ridiculously bad' consequences and 'a potential nightmare scenario' if terrorists get their hands on the machines.
Steve Lazarus, a retired FBI agent, told The High Side: 'The bureau is freaked out for a good reason. These aren't hobby drones with cameras.
'They're industrial sprayers designed to carry and disperse significant amounts of liquid quickly and with precision.'
He added that agricultural drones are capable of treating wide areas in a matter of minutes using pre-programmed GPS routes, a feature designed for efficient farming but one that could be dangerous if misused.
[NY Post] RINOs always hurt their supporters. Oh..wait. Rhino
A South African anti-poaching champion was gored to death by a 2,900 pound rhinoceros after caring for the animal during a morning patrol.
Schoeman van Jaarsveld was surveying the Samara Karoo Reserve, located in the heart of South Africa’s Great Karoo region, when a double horned rhino burst out of cover and fatally impaled him, officials said.
The tragic, freak accident took place on Thursday around 10:30 a.m. local time.
By the time emergency crews rushed to the scene, van Jaarsveld, 58, had already died from his injuries.
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He was caring for the rhino, and it took care of him. Forest elephants yesterday, rhino today. Africa wins again.
[Gateway] Fr. Larry Huber was a very popular conservative priest in the St. Louis community.
I first met Fr. Huber shortly after he was removed from his parish and placed in a new community after he refused to wear a facemask during the COVID pandemic. Father told me a group of liberal parishioners waged a campaign against him for not buying into the entire Fauci narrative on the Chinese virus that killed millions around the world.
The St. Louis Diocese like many across the country have replaced conservative leadership with more radical members who are products of the former Pope.
For several days this week I call Father Huber hoping to catch him on the phone. But I heard nothing.
Then on Friday I found out why.
Father Humber was involved in a horrible accident in Jefferson County. He was killed instantly.
What a horrible lost for the Catholic Community in Missouri.
[FoxNews] The Combat Field Test (CFT), which is age and gender-neutral, applies to soldiers in combat specialties, is designed to mirror the physical demands of modern warfare and signals a shift toward stricter, role-specific standards as the Army looks to boost readiness across its ranks.
"The Combat Field Test is a critical step forward in ensuring our soldiers serving in the most physically demanding specialties have the specific fitness required to dominate on the modern battlefield," Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said in a statement Wednesday. "This is about readiness, lethality and the well-being of our soldiers."
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So after 50 years of lowering the combat fitness test & standards to allow women in. The DOD is now going to return to common sense in how to fight a war?
BTW: What clear battle victory has the US DOD chalk up since the inclusion of women in combat?
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That’s what they call a moderate or sensible heel, Seeking Cure. I believe about 1.5-2” — enough to look smart, not enough to be uncomfortable during long hours for most women. In those days the uniforms required girdles, as well.
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One size fits all. It doesn't work. Combat Arms should be significantly demanding. Support troops still need to be fit enough for rear area security even in modern warfare there really is no 'rear area'. They don't need to be at the CA level. I prefer reclassified CA troops who have the experience but have non-crippling profiles to be in the Combat Support and Combat Service Support skills.
[MAIL] A beloved resort, once a hotspot for the biggest stars during Hollywood's golden age, is undergoing a massive $298 million redevelopment and will reopen next year.
Cal Neva, a sprawling hotel straddling the California-Nevada border has been collecting dust for decades as many developers have tried and failed to restore its glory.
This time, Realberry, a Colorado-based real estate firm, is determined to rebuild a resort 'unlike anything else in the mountain west,' the developers declared in a press release.
[IsraelTimes] Move comes as Justice Department struggles to obtain drugs for lethal injections after Trump rescinded moratorium on federal executions last year
Because, what deterrent does a closed door peaceful by death by being put to sleep, do as a public deterrent?
Why should a murder be comfortably housed, medically treated and well-fed, while we have homeless VETs and other good citizens on the streets and/or need of the same comforts?
Also, why do some executions take as much as 20+ years, after being found guilty?
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Also, why do some executions take as much as 20+ years, after being found guilty?
Because the ruling class (which includes judges) think its icky and unworthy of a modern society, damn what others want. Didn't take long for Tim McVeigh to be executed when the crime is aimed at them.
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Why should a murder be comfortably housed, medically treated and well-fed
This is where yesterday's story about freezing and thawing rotifers comes in. Rather than housing criminals, simply stash them in cold storage until it is time to thaw them out for release. Saves on space and costs for feeding and housing.
Public Hangings are what is needed.
I am not so sure. It would make for a nice community bonding event, no doubt. And serve as a morality lesson to law-abiding people who probably don't need it. A lot of heinous crimes like school shootings seem to have a desire for fame as a motivation. A public hanging only feeds that. I say "Send them to the protein banks!" and let us speak their name no more while their proteins nourish the community.
[FoxNews] Seven weeks. One AI model. One team. More than 2,000 previously unknown software vulnerabilities were found. If you need a moment with that, take it. John Ackerly, CEO and co-founder of Virtru, a data security company, put that figure into perspective in a way that is hard to shake.
"Mythos is absolutely a turning point for cybersecurity. Think about it. Mythos didn't pick a lock; it found thousands of locks that were never locked in the first place (that no one even knew existed) in software that the best human security researchers had studied for decades.
The math is staggering. One AI model, and one team, in seven weeks, found more than 2,000 zero-day vulnerabilities. That is 30% of the world's entire annual output prior to AI. When thousands of researchers get access to AI models like Mythos, a single year will surface exponentially more zero-days than the 360,000 recorded in all of software history.
Mythos and other AI models like it can now find and exploit software flaws at a speed and scale that is beyond containment. This means that the old approach of building stronger walls around systems and hoping they hold is becoming much less reliable. It also means that the manual "find a vulnerability, patch the vulnerability" process is not going to keep pace with a threat landscape bolstered by the speed and scale of AI.
The threat surface is now expanding faster than any wall can contain it. The only answer to this new dynamic is to protect the data itself, rather than prop up perimeter protection around it.
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This is going to utterly cripple CIA and NSA. Their job is breaking foreign communications to protect America and our allies.
Zero-days are how they do it. Look forward to a new age of successful terrorist attacks that will make 9/11 look like The USS Maine.
[Panorama] Four people were injured while playing with the fun capsules on the rides and spins.
Specifically, as the Seville Emergency Service (SESD) reported in a statement on Facebook, a cable of a bungee jumping type game was cut while the capsule with two passengers was in the air, causing it to hit an iron pole and the base of the game with force.
The capsule was carrying two children, while two other people were hit by debris on the ground.
As can be seen in the video, the two children are in a state of panic, tied to their place in the capsule, which is literally hanging by a cable in the air. Rescuers arrived on the scene a short time later and managed to free them.
According to the Spanish newspaper 'La Razón', the injured were taken to a local health center.
[Nordic Monitor, 4 Nov 25] A US-indicted Turkish defense contractor and former military officer, whose rapid rise in Turkey’s arms industry was fueled by close ties to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has managed to escape US federal bribery charges following what many observers believe was political lobbying in Washington by Ankara.
The case, which accused him of manipulating NATO contracts in exchange for secret payments, was quietly dropped on July 9 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) just days after a high-level meeting between Erdogan and US President Donald Trump during a NATO summit in The Hague held June 24-25.
The saga of Ismail Terlemez, once a technical insider at NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), exposes how political influence and geopolitical bargaining can upend international corruption investigations and how a Turkish operative accused of bribery inside NATO’s most sensitive procurement system emerged instead as one of Turkey’s fastest-growing arms exporters. La Lettre, Le Soir, Knack and Follow the Money were first to publish on this.
The US indictment, filed in the Northern District of Illinois, accused Terlemez of accepting €115,896.74 in bribes from Scott Everett Willason, an American defense consultant. Prosecutors alleged that the two colluded between 2019 and 2020 to rig NATO tenders, including contracts for the US Army’s TNT supplies, by exploiting Terlemez’s insider position at the Ammunition Support Partnership, the NATO division responsible for collective arms purchases....
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But alas! Estonia apparently taking its orders from the EUsky soyuz/NATO like a good little satellite/member:
[United24Media] The US military has simulated a large-scale Ukrainian-style drone attack during classified exercises at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, reflecting a growing shift in Washington’s approach to countering unmanned threats.
According to Defense One on April 25, the drills—conducted under Operation Clear Horizon—were designed to replicate battlefield conditions observed during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, including tactics used in Ukraine’s 2025 “Spiderweb” operation targeting Russian strategic aviation.
US Special Forces units carried out simulated drone strikes mirroring the Ukrainian operation, while counter-drone units from multiple branches acted as defenders. Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, who leads the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, said the exercise helped identify key priorities for US forces.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FoxNews] Hospice fraud testimony before Congress adds pressure as Le Roux alleges $80B annually in waste and overpayments
[MAIL] An alarm has erupted after 15 powerful agricultural spray drones were stolen in a suspected coordinated heist in New Jersey last month.
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[Nordic Monitor, 4 Nov 25] A US-indicted Turkish defense contractor and former military officer, whose rapid rise in Turkey’s arms industry was fueled by close ties to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has managed to escape US federal bribery charges following what many observers believe was political lobbying in Washington by Ankara.
