House lawmakers passed legislation aimed at cracking down on an $8.83 billion federal child care grant that was once estimated to have had $325 million worth of improper payments.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) urged a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, joining the legal fight against the payouts even as the administration pulls back on the idea. “The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents an immediate and dire threat to our constitutional order and the authority…
Federal officials announced on Thursday new indictments against 14 defendants accused of Medicaid and COVID-19 relief fraud in Ohio. This comes after investigative reporter Luke Rosiak released a deep dive investigation last month into Somali fraud in Ohio, where he revealed the vast Somali Medicaid fraud ring in Columbus, Ohio, which is estimated to have stolen over a billion federal tax dollars. The post JUST IN: Todd Blanche, Dr. Oz Announce New Indictments Against 14 Defendants in Ohio Medicaid Fraud Schemes – 49 Home Healthcare Providers Suspended (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Aaron Judge is not in the lineup again.
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 […] The post Federal Fraud Taskforce and Dept of Justice Announce First 14 Indictments in Major Fraud Action in Ohio, Many More to Follow appeared first on The Last Refuge.
Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers is doubling down on seemingly defying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on so-called “conversion therapy” for children. The moment came during a Monday “Pride Flag Raising” event at the State Capitol. While flanked by attendees waiving rainbow flags, the left-wing governor bragged about vetoing bills passed by the Republican-controlled […]
The Trump Justice Department issued a new superseding indictment against the extremist group watchdog the Southern Poverty Law Center, trying to fix defects with their original indictment — but in doing so, not only did they violate grand jury secrecy rules, they didn't really even fix the fundamental issue, national security journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote for her EmptyWheel blog.The trouble starts with the fact that the DOJ, led by director of public affairs Emily Covington, leaked the indictment to the press before it had even been properly docketed — a clear violation of practice.But if they had been trying to project confidence that they have a rock-solid case now, Wheeler wrote, they have not done so.The original indictment accuses SPLC, which uses undercover informants in hate groups like the KKK to expose their inner workings, of lying to donors about their money being used on these informant setups. The new indictment focuses much more on their "omissions of material facts" to donors.In other words, Wheeler said, originally "DOJ presented no evidence in the original indictment (nor did it add any in the superseding) that SPLC promised donors they would not use informants," and now the indictment focuses less on that and instead "repeats over and over that SPLC raised money promising to dismantle far right extremist groups, without telling donors that it worked to dismantle hate groups, in part, by using informants to infiltrate the groups."This is a huge difference between this case, and, for example, the fraud charges against Steve Bannon for using donations to build a border wall on personal expenses, Wheeler wrote, because there, prosecutors had solid evidence Bannon promised donors they wouldn't use the money one way and did it anyway, whereas here, SPLC never made a commitment not to use informants and there's no evidence donors were misled into believing they wouldn't.The superseding charges, Wheeler wrote, try to paper over this by focusing more on "omission" than falsehood. But that's unlikely to work.Ultimately, she concluded, Covington leaking the indictment early "calls attention to the degree to which the superseding indictment she was crowing about instead is nothing more than a cosmetic fix, cosmetics that call attention to more obvious underlying problems."
On June 3, a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a second, expanded set of charges building on an original April 21 indictment, alleging that $4.1 million in tax-exempt funds paid informants inside extremist organizations who then recruited new members and purchased materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods. The post New DOJ Indictment Alleges Southern Poverty Law Center Funds Went to Hoods and Cross Burnings appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.