$3.5B lost in Los Angeles hospice fraud, James Comer says
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We'll focus solely on hospice fraud in California, specifically in Los Angeles County. |
| 0:09.0 | A state audit just came out and confirmed that there's at least $3.5 billion, |
| 0:16.0 | billion dollars in hospice fraud, primarily in one county, Los Angeles County, in California. That $3.5 billion |
| 0:23.6 | price tag represents over 10% of the total bill for the federal government for hospice in all 50 states, |
| 0:33.6 | in every city and every state in America. So the red flags are there that there was rampant fraud. |
| 0:41.1 | There's a whistleblower that's come forward that alleges that Gavin Newsom knew about this. |
| 0:46.7 | This is a very similar scenario to what we had in Minnesota. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, so this shouldn't be about politics, but watch how fast some people are going to call it partisan when Republicans start pointing out government waste. |
| 1:01.7 | So that was James Comer. |
| 1:03.4 | He is the House Oversight from the House Oversight Committee. |
| 1:07.7 | And they just open a formal investigation into what they're calling rampant hospice |
| 1:13.0 | fraud in California, $3.5 billion in hospice fraud in one county. So Trump said there was massive fraud |
| 1:22.8 | in California and they called him a liar. And then the state's own audit just proved him right. |
| 1:29.4 | And guess who's having a really, really bad day? |
| 1:32.0 | Gavin Newsom. |
| 1:32.9 | Gavin Newsom. |
| 1:34.0 | His day was ruined. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, here is what is, you know, so frustrating about this. |
| 1:40.2 | And it all ties together. |
| 1:41.5 | And yeah, okay, big shocker. |
| 1:43.1 | There's massive fraud happening with government dollars in California. Oh, big shocker. There was massive Somali daycare fraud happening in Minneapolis. And we had, you know, tons of fraud that happened with the, you know, billions and billions of dollars that the government gave out during COVID. And look, we've even talked about it yesterday here, the potential fraud for Medicaid in the state of Indiana, |
| 2:01.4 | and they're concerned about that, and it was that Wall Street Journal story relating to autism care |
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