1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: This has been Ethan Hatcher and Jerry Lopez on the radio. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: I believe Casey and Jim will return tomorrow morning, but 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in. In the meantime. I see 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: fifty seven beautiful listeners have given us likes on the 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: YouTube's stream. Jerry, I think we can push that up 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: to seventy five. Let's see if we can get that 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: up to seventy five likes before the end of the program. 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: You got one hour ago. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm counting 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: on you, beautiful people little less than twenty likes to 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: go help. Let's help make our dream a reality. Please 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: thank you this segment. I wanted to talk about something 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: that you brought up earlier, which is the considerable fraud 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: that is taking place across the nation and fraud capital 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: of California, where investigators have uncovered one hundred and forty 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,319 Speaker 1: six but BA BA billion dollars of fraud annually in 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: the Medicaid program. 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: America's fraud investigations bring us to the Golden state of California. 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: Look at this number, one hundred and forty six billion dollars. 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,839 Speaker 2: Health and Human Service officials confirm that number to Chris 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 2: RUFO as the staggering amount of fraud in a single 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: program and Gavin newsom state medicaid system. Stop and think 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: about that. One hundred and forty six billion dollars a 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 2: single program a single state. That is slightly more than 24 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: Warren Buffett's estimated net worth. It is more than the 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: GDP of several small countries like the Marshall Islands in Dominica, 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 2: just to name a few. And it is well over 27 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: one hundred billion dollars more than the most valuable NFL team, 28 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys. That is just for medicaid, just in California. 29 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: So imagine what the total number of fraud is when 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: you count all the social programs in all fifty states. 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,279 Speaker 2: The Trump administration is imagining that, and they are now 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: taking action in a stunning rate of hospice facilities in 33 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's California. Now, just this week, the Justice Department 34 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: announced eight people were arrested accused of prodding the state 35 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: out of more than fifty million dollars. 36 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 3: You will find the more wretched hive of scum and villain. 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 3: We must speak. 38 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: Cautious and Jerry when they're talking about hospice fraud We're 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: not talking about, you know, just a few, a handful, 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: or even dozens. We are talking about hundreds of fraudulent 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: hospice services that have been shut down after the Trump 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: administration began peeking behind the curtain of fraud that's taking 43 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: place in California. It's gross. 44 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about the fraud in Minnesota. That's kind 45 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: of pale in comparison to what we see in California. 46 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think I saw a report one time 47 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 3: that said there was two hundred something hospice offices that 48 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: were billing out of the same office space in California. 49 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: According to doctor Oz, about a third of the nations, 50 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: not just the state, but the nations hospice services out 51 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, California. Sound's going on? Make it makes sense? 52 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: But it doesn't. 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 3: Six billion dollars. Just think of that number. When we 54 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 3: send five billion, ten billion, thirty billion to different countries 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: five times that is just being wasted. And here's my concern. 56 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,279 Speaker 3: These people will be arrested, sure, but the money is gone, 57 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: our money is gone. 58 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: And we're wasted. 59 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 3: Then likely if these were illegals are just going to 60 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 3: be deported and nothing's going to happen. 61 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: The reason why California officials are willing to look the 62 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: other way, the dirty little secret is they're involved. They're 63 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: committing fraud too. More often than not. You got Eric 64 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: Swalwell that's been embroiled in campaign donation controversy because he's 65 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: been using donations to circle back and give himself, literally 66 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: paying his wife for childcare. Well, I mean, look, if 67 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: they're your kids, shouldn't you be providing the childcare for free? 68 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: Most of us in America have to do it for free, 69 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: but not for lofty Eric Swalwell fartwell. 70 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 4: Eric Swalwell funnel two hundred thousand dollars from his campaign 71 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 4: directly back to himself, claiming he used the money on childcare. 72 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: According to FC filings from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty five, 73 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 4: this includes more than twenty two thousand dollars in just 74 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: the final three months of last year. In addition, three 75 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 4: payments totaling over six thousand dollars were made out to 76 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 4: his wife, Britney Swallowell, labeled as quote unquote childcare. Critics 77 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 4: say this is a deception, as people do not donate 78 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 4: to campaigns so the candidate can spend that money on 79 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 4: personal expenses, essentially using their campaign funds as a personal 80 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 4: slush fund. Campaign finance watchdogs have slammed the move, saying 81 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 4: there's a privileged class of politicians who exploit loopholes to 82 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 4: pay for their lifestyles with donor cash. 83 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: They're a shape and a swindler, that's what you are. 84 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: How could you do or things like this? 85 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: Not only is he spending the money on childcare provided 86 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: by his wife for his own damn kids, he's also 87 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: spending it on steakhouses, on concessions at Super Bowl, James, 88 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: He's living high on the hog and doing it on 89 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: your dime like so many other California fraudsters. Jerry. 90 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 3: And what makes Britney Swallwells so special outside of her hut? 91 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 3: And it doesn't make her special that her husband's and 92 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 3: congressman Hell, he's not special. But think about all the 93 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 3: mothers out here, yeah, who aren't getting anything, or the 94 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 3: husband's working, or both people are working, and they're paying 95 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 3: fifteen hundred dollars a month for somebody to watch their kids. 96 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 3: Imagine if you could just sit at home and get 97 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 3: a check for twenty three hundred dollars to watch your 98 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: own children. 99 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's gross, and I think so many politicians 100 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: have lost sight that what politics, or what American politics 101 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: was originally rooted in was service, service being provided to 102 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: the community instead of enriching yourself and taking advantage of 103 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: your position and your office. So I mean, this is 104 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: gross and it's an abuse of power outrightly. But it's 105 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: no wonder that they're willing to overlook the staggering levels 106 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: of fraud in California when we're in on it. Fortunately, 107 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: the Trump administration taking notice, and we'll give Trump kudos 108 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: when he does things that are that are good and 109 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: beneficial to the American people. Doctor Oz heading up the 110 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: shutdown of more than two hundred and twenty one fraudulent 111 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: hospice services in Los Angeles alone. 112 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 5: In the prior four years, the governor of California had 113 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 5: shut down four hospices. We shut down seven in one night. 114 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 5: And I've got news for you today, Brett. I'm going 115 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 5: to go to announce and make it clear everybody, we've 116 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 5: shut down already, just in the last ten weeks, two 117 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 5: hundred and twenty one hospices in California in the. 118 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 6: State of California, two hundred and twenty. 119 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 5: In Los Angeles might have been the state in Los Angeles. 120 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 5: So we're able to dramatically accelerate a process that had 121 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 5: been neandering along in California. And we believe that there 122 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 5: are eighteen hundred hospices in California. That's by way, about 123 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 5: a third of the entire nation's hospice load is just 124 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 5: in Los Angeles. We're going to be able to shut 125 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 5: down we hope appropriately half of them. 126 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 6: We saw what happened in Minnesota. Now we're seeing the 127 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 6: tip of the in California. Every time we see a 128 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 6: fraud bus like this, it's framed as kind of bad 129 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 6: actors and that it's happening on such a large scale 130 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 6: because the system allows for it. 131 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: Holy Jesus, what is that? 132 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 3: What the point is that? 133 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: And that's just one social service, Jerry. If you start 134 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: peeking behind the curtain of these other expenditures, I bet 135 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: I would be willing to put money down that you 136 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: are going to find more fraud just waiting to be uncovered. 137 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it needs to be of note 138 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 3: that these all appear to be happening in the same 139 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: type of category. 140 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: Mm hm. 141 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 3: Whether it's daycares, whether it's hospice, whether it's medical transport, 142 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 3: whether it's medical supplies, whether it's they all seem to 143 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: be under this human health services category. 144 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: Well there's a reason for that, Jerry. It's because you 145 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: can pull at the emotional heartstrings of the American voter 146 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: when you talk about funding those services, and if you 147 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: want to cut those services. If you ever dare say 148 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: that we're spending too much on Medicaid, that we're spending 149 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: too much on daycare, that we're spending too much on 150 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: these services at taxpayer expense, well then you're a monster. 151 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: You're evil. 152 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 3: Can we agree if two hundred and eighteen billion dollars 153 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: of fraud is in play in one place, that we're 154 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 3: probably spending too much money there? 155 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I think that would be an indicator. 156 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 3: You can take that much money and the whole system 157 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 3: doesn't fall down, or we're paying too much. 158 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: Well, think about the billions of dollars that they've spent 159 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: on the homeless industrial complex of California. And what have 160 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: they gotten. They've gotten more homelessness. They're glutted with homeless 161 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: to the extent that now you're being prevented from using 162 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: the post office because the post office is surrounded by 163 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: a homeless encampment so large Jerry that they had to 164 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: send out a helicopter to get it in the camera frame. 165 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 6: This is the view from Air seven the encampment surrounding 166 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 6: a post office on West seventh Street in LA's Westlake District. 167 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 6: Those tents packed in the alleyway and using up parking 168 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 6: spaces intended sort of post office. 169 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 5: Well, obviously a post office parking lot is intended for. 170 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: The patrons of the post office. So from here we 171 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: have people that. 172 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 5: Are congregating in areas that are intended for other purposes 173 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 5: due to lack of a better situation. That's where we're 174 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 5: supposed to go, you know, put our mail in the box. 175 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 5: So you don't feel safe walking over there because of 176 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 5: the almost you're. 177 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: Going to get done for money, they're going to ask 178 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: you to help them. 179 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 6: And it's just dirty. 180 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: It's just filthy, and the city is not keeping it clean. 181 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 6: The council member for the area, Unicie Hernandez, send us 182 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 6: a statement this afternoon saying that her office is coordinating 183 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 6: with outreach services and is planning to clean up the 184 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 6: site next week. She also points to work being done 185 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 6: several times a week to remove bulky oddives and bags. 186 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,319 Speaker 6: I'm litter within five blocks of MacArthur Park. Mayor Karen 187 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 6: Bass also send us a statement this afternoon describing the 188 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 6: situation outside the post office as unacceptable. 189 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: What is whole place sucks? 190 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 6: It's nuts, right, it sucks. 191 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: I see Brad Sewinsky asking in the YouTube chat that 192 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: is this fraud just a Blue state issue? And I 193 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: wish that you could say it was. I wish that 194 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: we could say it's just the Democrats that are overseeing 195 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: the fraud. But if I did that, I would be 196 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: being dishonest to you. The reality is, Jerry, even in 197 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: our own red state, deep deep, deep red state of Indiana, 198 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: where we have not just a Republican majority, but a 199 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: Republican super majority upwards of ten percent that's admitted possibly 200 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: more by our state legislature of Medicare expenditures in this 201 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: state alone are fraudulent. So one in ten people are 202 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: getting money that they're not entitled to. 203 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the things that we kind of hang 204 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 3: our hats on is just being authentic. And I would 205 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 3: be being complete full of myself if I didn't just 206 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 3: say the next statement, the reason we're seeing this in 207 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 3: blue states is because we have a Red administration. 208 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: That's why. 209 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 210 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 3: Also, when you start pulling the thread, you just follow it. 211 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 3: And that's why I have in Minnesota. Naturally, California's next, 212 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: but one hundred percent we go to any other state, 213 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 3: we're gonna see all kinds of fraud. 214 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: We are pulling on the thread and unweaving the sweater 215 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: of a fraud in the United States. Thanks for listening 216 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: to ninety three WIBC. Coming up next a topic that's 217 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: near and dear to the heart of Jerry Lopez. That 218 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: is the failures of communism and the damage it inflicts 219 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: on its people, something that was discussed between Bill Maher 220 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: and comedian Rob Riggle in eloquent detail. 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