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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#709: Inside Maine's Medicaid Fraud Machine with Steve Robinson

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8804 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Marty sits down with Steve Robinson to discuss his year-long investigation into massive Medicaid fraud in Maine, exposing how politically connected migrant NGOs have been exploiting taxpayer-funded programs with virtually no oversight or consequences.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.9

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

Steve, thank you for joining us.

0:39.1

Thanks for having me, Marty.

0:40.1

Appreciate it.

0:41.1

Well, I know you're a busy man, especially in the last couple of weeks.

0:44.5

I think you've hit the scene.

0:47.9

I mean, you've been on the scene for a while, but I think your conversation with Sean

0:52.1

Ryan is going pretty viral right now.

0:54.8

And as we were just discussing before we hit record, Nick Shirley, his on-the-ground

1:00.7

reporting in Minneapolis definitely caught the eye and the attention of the country and

1:06.0

has spawned a bunch of copycat sluice, if you will, which I'm all in favor for, but you've been

1:11.6

sleuthing on this particular Medicaid fraud ring in Maine specifically for the better

1:18.5

part of a year. And so I think you, out of anybody, considering your investigative journalism

1:24.2

skills and how long you've been on this beat, understand this story,

1:28.1

more than many others out there.

1:30.7

And so I think maybe just to jump off why, how you caught the scent of this particular story,

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