Did Luigi Mangione Inspire the Palisades Arsonist?
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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First, they spotlight explosive reporting from The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak detailing more than $1 billion in alleged “home health” Medicaid fraud in Ohio. The scheme reportedly involves fraudulent companies billing Medicaid to pay individuals to care for family members—or in some cases, doing no work at all. Jim and Greg walk through some of the stunning details.
Next, after the Left repeatedly blamed last year's devastating LA wildfires on climate change, we later learned it was an arsonist. And now that arsonist reportedly told prosecutors he was inspired to do it by Luigi Mangione murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024 and wanted to send a warning to the wealthy. Jim and Greg also discuss the latest in the LA mayor's race.
Then, they give credit to South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace for revealing that six members of Congress used taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims between 2007 and 2017. Jim and Greg revisit the scandal and provide context on some of the lawmakers involved.
Finally, Jim and Greg react to McDonald's moving the soda pop machines behind the counter and the reasons why its happening.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.0 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.1 | And Jim, we thought maybe it's a one-off in Minnesota with the quality leering center |
| 0:22.4 | and all this Medicaid fraud, autism Medicaid funding fraud. |
| 0:26.8 | Then not only did Nick Shirley and others expose that in Minnesota, they went to California, |
| 0:31.3 | major hospice fraud, among other fraud going on out there, even to the point where California's |
| 0:36.8 | far- left attorney general |
| 0:38.0 | starts pressing charges. But now we learn that it's not just in the blue states. We've got a |
| 0:44.9 | big problem with this. Luke Roziak of the Daily Wire spent two months putting this together. |
| 0:49.4 | It's going to be a whole project over there at the Daily Wire, but he kind of gave out the executive summary, you might say, in his piece last night. |
| 0:58.5 | The state this time is Ohio. |
| 1:01.0 | We're talking over a billion dollars of likely home health fraud. |
| 1:05.6 | And I'm going to quote liberally from the story here. |
| 1:08.0 | He says, the business model is simple. |
| 1:10.2 | A 40-year-old Somali immigrant |
| 1:11.6 | gets paid for spending time with and maybe cooking for his own 65-year-old mother. The middleman |
| 1:16.6 | is one of thousands of home health firms, quote unquote, that have the NPI number necessary to |
| 1:22.0 | bill Medicaid. The 40-year-old becomes an employee of that company, but has no clients other than his mother. |
| 1:28.6 | There's no way to verify whether he actually even provided services unless his own mother is willing to testify against him. |
| 1:35.3 | This poverty program is different from things like food stamps because it has no monetary cap and its extent is decided not by politicians but by any doctor willing to sign a form saying |
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