Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill came to Minnesota to get a firsthand look at the Medicaid fraud that, so far, has eaten up about half of all Medicaid money for the past several years.
What they found that was so interesting was not the fraud, but the efforts that the fraudsters are making to intimidate investigators looking into it.
WATCH: "The mob mentality is stunning"
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Dr. Mehmet Oz (Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and Jim O'Neill (Deputy Sec. of HHS) explained how they were flipped off, followed, and their cars were surrounded while trying to investigate fraud at a building… pic.twitter.com/bIzLCTsAmS
It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Griggs building was a textile factory, became an office building. It's not a nice part of town. I wouldn't take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business, but somehow they had 400. Medicaid, uh, offices doing business with Medicaid, charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer.
That means basically each of those business made a million dollars. You wouldn't walk in this building in the CD part of Minneapolis. And so I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening. Certainly, uh, collaborating with these folks, maybe even, I wonder, you know, folks who in the building, the neighborhood, I mean, someone knew.
Then you start getting into the broader issue. We just talked to whistleblowers, which is chilling. You see the retaliate, the, the re retaliatory tactics, the shuffling around of people who are trying to put their hands up and say, I see a problem. But at its very core, there has been a, a confusion about what it really means to work in healthy human services in Minnesota.
It's not a partnership with vendors. You are the regulator. It is your job to make sure there are limited opportunities that the fraud, the taxpayer, or if you create services, and these are Minnesota nice services and Minnesota nice people, services don't have a lot of guardrails. You know, you don't have to attest to very much.
You have to just say you're trying to do things. You don't have to put your name in any forms. It's hard to regulate that and then the people doing the regulations aren't comfortable doing it. What they found in this document is that the, the majority of folks didn't think they could do the job and in over half the cases there was suspicion.
There was rule, you know, reason for caution. Things didn't seem what, what they're supposed to be. That's half to more than half the cases from the state government's auditor telling us this. So anybody out there in the legislators, a average citizen, we were chased out of buildings by car, honking people, giving us the finger, you know, following us, following us, following us, trying to intimidate us.
By now, we are all quite well aware of the massive fraud going on in Minnesota. Despite being pushed out of the news by the anti-ICE protesters and the now-familiar attacks on both federal law enforcement and ordinary citizens, the fraud investigations are simmering in the background.
What was more interesting was the effort to cover it up, both by local Democratic Party elected officials and government workers, and by crowds of mainly Somalis who are working to intimidate federal investigators looking into it.
A Somalian man named Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd in Minnesota submitted 40,000 fraudulent healthcare claims allowing him to steal $3.2 million dollars from American taxpayers
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A worker pulled the power cord from a computer as investigators tried to search it
“Guardian Home… pic.twitter.com/nMmjrU2T5T
A Somalian man named Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd in Minnesota submitted 40,000 fraudulent healthcare claims allowing him to steal $3.2 million dollars from American taxpayers
A worker pulled the power cord from a computer as investigators tried to search it
“Guardian Home Health Services, submitted over 40,000 fraudulent claims for personal care assistance”
“When the office was being searched, another office worker pulled the power cord from his computer to prevent investigators from seeing the screen”
His company also submitted fake time sheets
Dr. Oz and O'Neill visited the Griggs office building, a hideously run-down space that has, count them, 40 healthcare companies. They were refused entry into the building, and within minutes a crowd surrounded the vehicle and drove them away out of concern for their safety.
So you were going to these phony businesses today and facing real threats out there. I wouldn't say we felt in significant danger, but, and we, we were told we wouldn't even be allowed in the building. So we didn't try, but we, we drove by, we just stood on the sidewalk and there was, there was menace.
We got back in our cars. People were honking at us. A car followed us for a long time. Um, it was definitely a, and they didn't know exactly who we were, but you know, we were in like black cars. Uh, there was definitely a vibe that they were. Just against, uh, anyone looking around, like hiding something. Just even, even all the people in the, in the parking lot.
Have you ever seen anything quite like this, that in, in your time? No, nothing like this. The mob mentality is stunning, and I don't even know if these folks are from Minnesota. These are professional agitators. They have a little network, not a little network, pretty big network from what I can tell. But we were only there for a minute or two and there were already people showing up and beginning to surround.
Uh, the cars we were in and we got out just to look around. That didn't last very long. And why would you not want me to look like, what are you worried about? I'll tell you, as a heart surgeon, the first thing you do when there's a complication and someone else calls you in to help out another surgeon, you open the wound, you put the light in.
Because we can't see if we can't have exposure to the problem. To do that, you need to actually look around. I know I've seen footage of what's inside this building that we weren't allowed to go into, which is a concerning issue by itself. And it's just empty rooms with, you know, one computer terminal.
It's obviously these are sham businesses. No one can do that kind of business out of these areas, and that's why I begin to question whether the infrastructure is rotted out. Of medicated in Minnesota, and if you don't allow fraudulent activity to be wounded out, what ends up happening is they don't just steal your money, they steal your life.
It's organized crime, only in this case, the organization doing the crime is in league with the government officials whose job it is to ensure that it does not happen.
As I have written before, going after the fraudsters outside the government is vital, but it is at least as vital to go after the government bureaucrats who make this fraud possible.
There were bureaucrats who tried to intervene, but the people higher up the food chain harassed them, transferred them, and punished them for trying to get a handle on the fraud.
There have been whistleblowers who have been fighting this for years, and their reports fell on deaf ears. And they did so because the Democratic Party benefited mightily from all this graft.
For reasons you and I know instinctively, Democrats are defending a system that is throwing at least half of all the money that was appropriated to help people in need to fraudsters ripping off the system. The money goes to the fraudsters, to people overseas, and into the coffers of the Democratic Party and elected officials.
Now that it is getting exposed, Democrats are going nuts. The anti-ICE protests are at least partly about distracting from the fraud investigations, and partly to activate the thugs who are intimidating not just federal law enforcement officers, but the FBI agents and others digging into the systematic fraud.
It is impossible to overstate how corrupt the system is here, and how willing the Democrats are to use every lever of power, including the deployment of brownshirts, to keep the federal investigators away from their secrets.
Rules have been changed to allow the deletion of state records at an accelerated pace, for instance. It is all about covering up the fraud, and the intimidation tactics are about buying time.
Things will not get better here. They are likely to get worse.
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