1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Crime is way down, and one of the reasons is 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: we've taken a lot of bad people and gotten them 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: out of our country. In some cases, they're so bad 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: that we put them in prison because we don't want 5 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: them to even take a chance of coming back in. 6 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: Even though our voter is very secure, record setting secure, 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: we had to zero illegal aliens being admitted into a 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: country for the last eight months. 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Many inspired to ask more questions after what 30 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 4: we witness with a massive Somali fraud costing taxpayers billions 31 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 4: of dollars in Minnesota. Well, now you can look at 32 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 4: a Los Angeles neighborhood that is the home to forty 33 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: two hospices in a four block radius. That is the 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 4: new claim coming from doctor Oz. Doctor Oz is now 35 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 4: saying he is a covered rampant healthcare fraud in the 36 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 4: state of California, declaring he found a whopping forty two 37 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 4: hospices and just a four block radius. 38 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 3: That is impossible. 39 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 4: Oz the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. 40 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 4: He posts a video Tuesday cruising through this area pointing 41 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 4: to medical buildings plastered with Armenian writing and claiming they're 42 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 4: tied to a multi billion dollar hospice and home care 43 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 4: fraud scheme. In this four block area in Los Angeles, 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 4: there are forty two hospices, doctor Oz said. Take a 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 4: listen to doctor Oz as he explains the story so 46 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 4: you can see. 47 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 5: These are medical buildings. They've got Shrilick writing, Russian Armenian 48 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 5: writing on both sides. There's lots of action, it seems. 49 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 5: I don't know how many patients are getting care but 50 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 5: in this four block area unless there are forty two hospices. 51 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 5: So either there are a lot of people dying here, 52 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 5: or you've got a fraudulent activity that is so good 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 5: that everyone wants to get in on it. I'm in 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 5: ben NIC's in Los Angeles, and this boarded up area 55 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 5: above my head here as a big hospice center. There 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 5: apparently quite a few hospices around here, forty two within 57 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 5: a four block radius. And these guys stole sixteen million dollars. 58 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 5: And listen carefully. The main guy went to jail for 59 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 5: two years stealing sixteen million dollars. It's a good trade 60 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 5: off for a lot of folks. And if you look 61 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 5: at it, it's pretty in the script. There wasn't anyone 62 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 5: really in there. They weren't doing any services. They just 63 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 5: got an address they could claim was a hospice and 64 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: then they ran the business claiming people were at home 65 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 5: getting services, which they really worked. What we have learned 66 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 5: there's roughly three and a half billion dollars of fraud 67 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 5: taking place here in Los Angeles in hospice and home 68 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 5: care is run quite a bit of it by the 69 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 5: Russian Armenian. You noticed the lettering and language behind me 70 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 5: is of that dialect, and it also highlights the fact 71 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 5: that this is an organized crime mafia deal where you've 72 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 5: got folks who are systematically recruited doctors to write false prescriptions. 73 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 5: You know, hundreds of doctors participating. They've got one hundred 74 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 5: thousand patients who they tricked or paid to give them 75 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 5: their beneficiary numbers so they can perpetuate the fraud. And 76 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 5: then the criminals are just bringing the whole organization and 77 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 5: quickly scurrying away when law enforcement does get around to 78 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: prosecuting them. Unfortunately, in California, there has not been a 79 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 5: lot of attention on these problems. 80 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 3: That's going to change. 81 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 5: The US Attorney, the FBI, everyone's now focused on the 82 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 5: fact that in this state, which has about thirty billion 83 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: dollars worth of home and community based services, most of 84 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 5: it might be fraudulent. Those are big numbers and we're 85 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 5: taking it seriously. 86 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 3: Now. 87 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 4: This isn't the only fraud that doctor Oz has exposed 88 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 4: in the last week. There was also another aspect of 89 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 4: fraud that he has uncovered, and it deals with what 90 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 4: they've found in Minnesota. I want you to listen to 91 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: doctor Ozena's own words on that. 92 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 3: Other fraud. 93 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 5: Behind me is the Griggs Midway building and looking at a 94 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 5: factory because it was a factory, a linen factory they 95 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 5: made cloth back there, converted to an office building. You'll 96 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 5: notice all those little signs there, and there's tons of 97 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 5: little businesses inside. Roughly four hundred medicaid businesses were starting 98 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 5: the building behind me. 99 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: Over the last several years. 100 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 5: They generated about three hundred and eighty million dollars of 101 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 5: billing that you, the taxpayer, were putting up. That means 102 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 5: roughly each business had a million dollars of billing. It's 103 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 5: an industrial area. There's no reason that you'd have a 104 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 5: mother bring her child there. You kind of imagine getting 105 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 5: at your business support an autistic job. Probably wouldn't want 106 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 5: to come here. 107 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 3: You hear the noise. It's just not a hospitable place. 108 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 5: The question is, how is it possible four hundred businesses 109 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 5: building almost four hundred million dollars we're able to thrive here? 110 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 5: What did the owner of the business this building think 111 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 5: was happening inside? Why no one in this state figure out? 112 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 5: This is a concern and perplexity to me. In a 113 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 5: place of this nature, an industrial complex that people would 114 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 5: not come to for childcare, autism care, or transportation support. 115 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 5: How is it possible this could come up like an 116 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 5: abscess in the heart of Minneapolis and nobody was watching. 117 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 5: I think it's because they weren't looking. They didn't want 118 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 5: to know that this problem was happening here. And it's 119 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 5: very concerning to me that only now, when there's more 120 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 5: federal supervision, are people beginning to. 121 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,239 Speaker 3: Ask a tough question. 122 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 5: So you'll notice there is already a watch group that's 123 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 5: observing us, that people in the cars taking pictures of us. 124 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 5: They're calling around trying to find out what's going down. 125 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 5: And I'll tell you they don't have to wonder if 126 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 5: we're telling you we're here to figure out why these 127 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 5: folks are being defrauded, why the people who live in 128 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 5: Minnesota aren't getting access to the care they deserve because 129 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 5: it's been stolen. But the fact that you've got people 130 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 5: behind me in cars concerned that we're even talking about 131 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 5: this story, she was having. 132 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 3: That worries you. It bothers me. 133 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 5: There's been a censoring of truth just to own what's 134 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 5: happening in their state. That's concerning to me. They talk 135 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 5: about being nice in Minnesota. I want to be nice too, 136 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 5: But a person was a good person doesn't have to 137 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 5: always be nice. They got to be truthful and be honest. 138 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 5: And sometimes you gotta tell people's stories they don't want 139 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 5: to hear. That's what doctors do, and that's what we're 140 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 5: gonna do here in Minnesota. 141 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: Tell you the truth. Tell you the truth. 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 4: What you noticed there from doctor Oz He was standing 143 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 4: with Jim O'Neil. They said they discovered a former linen 144 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 4: factory in Minnesota that was converted into four hundred, four 145 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 4: hundred medicaid businesses, generating nearly half a billion dollars. This 146 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 4: type of fraud isn't just in Minnesota. This type of 147 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 4: fraud isn't just in Minneapolis. This type of fraud what 148 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 4: you're witnessing now is literally all over the country. Now, 149 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 4: Democrats are fighting back, and you have to ask yourself 150 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 4: a question, why why are they becoming so violent, Why 151 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 4: are they becoming so angry? Why are they losing their 152 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 4: minds that this is being exposed. There's a simple answer, 153 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 4: follow the money. Now, when I say follow the money, 154 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 4: you look at Democrats and the amount of money that 155 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 4: they are receiving is incredible. From so many of these 156 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 4: organizations that are running the fraud. They want the money 157 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 4: to keep coming in. The amount of money is truly incredible. 158 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 4: The amount of money that is going to all of 159 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 4: these different men and women who are protecting the fraudsters. 160 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 4: It's pay to play. Everyone knows that this is paid 161 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 4: to play. And Democrats have made a deal with the devil, 162 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 4: with the worst and the most corrupt people to make 163 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 4: sure that the money flows into their callers so that 164 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 4: they can win reelection. Now, this is also about votes. 165 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 4: In many of these areas, they are large voting blocks 166 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 4: of individuals. Somalians and Minnesota, for example. Are the Armenians 167 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 4: in LA that you just heard doctor Oz talk about. 168 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 4: One of the things that they're very clear on is 169 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 4: that if you want one of our votes, you got 170 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 4: to buy it and get the entire community. 171 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: They don't vote independently. 172 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 4: They vote as a block for whoever will hook them 173 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 4: up and take care of them. And part of the 174 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 4: taking care of them is actually really simple. It's about 175 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 4: covering up and protecting the fraud that's taking place, and 176 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 4: these politicians are, in essence, getting a direct kickback. I'll 177 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 4: let you do the fraud. You get millions of dollars. 178 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 4: You just got to make sure you take care of me. 179 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 4: You got to make sure that you give me the 180 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 4: money that I deserve as a kickback for helping you 181 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 4: and looking the other way. 182 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 3: So this is a massive deal. I want to say 183 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 3: that again. This is a massive deal. 184 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,239 Speaker 4: And the President the United States of America is absolutely 185 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 4: right to be asking questions and for the DOJ to 186 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 4: ask questions because if they don't ask these questions, then 187 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 4: what happens. More of our money gets stolen, and that's 188 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 4: something that should make all of us angry. 189 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 190 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 2: with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever 191 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: you're listening to this podcast right now and for more 192 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 2: in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast 193 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 2: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.