This Could Be a Full-Time Job, Tracking Medicaid/Medicare Fraud

9/11/26 Department of Justice:

A Brooklyn woman was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison in connection with her leadership of a vast $64 million Medicaid fraud and illegal kickback scheme at her two social adult daycare centers and home health care company. The defendant was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and to forfeit $5 million in fraud proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized during a search of her home, as pictured below. 

 Again: if you stole $10 million and left the country, you could live like a king and leave that $10 million to your kids. Likely Uncle Sam would either never catch you, or not be able to get you. The greed is what sinks these idiots.

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How Many Different Categories of Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Are There?

10/21/26 Gothamist:

Two operators of a social adult daycare center on Staten Island have been arrested on charges they defrauded Medicaid out of more than $500,000, including billing for services to people who were dead, the Staten Island district attorney announced Wednesday.

Mother-and-daughter team Yangsim Oum and Juyoung Choe, the Staten Island Social Adult Day Care Center's owner and program director, allegedly billed Medicaid for providing services to people who didn’t show up — including some who were deceased or were out of the country at the time, Richmond County DA Michael McMahon said.

The pair could face up to 15 years in prison on more than 400 counts of healthcare fraud and falsifying business records, according to an indictment shared with Gothamist.

Social adult daycare centers across New York City are at the center of a sweeping fraud investigation by local, state and federal agencies. These centers provide activities and meals to seniors with cognitive impairments or disabilities and bill Medicaid based on daily attendance at their programs.

The arrests took place Tuesday as nearly a dozen other centers in Brooklyn and Queens were raided in actions that Gov. Kathy Hochul said were part of ongoing investigations into suspected Medicaid fraud. Interviews were conducted at 20 centers under investigation and another 80 received letters, according to the state Department of Health.

A Billion Here, A Billion There, After While It Adds Up to Trillions

10/22/26 New York Post:

Feds busted Los Angeles medical fraudsters accused of stealing $2 billion Thursday, cuffing white-collar thieves for unneeded surgeries, hunting the homeless for rehabs and billing the government for phony hospice care.

Department of Justice officials charged 15 defendants in all, including medical professionals, for making fraudulent claims to government and private health care programs – including $1.6 billion sham rehab case, the largest of its type ever.

The California Post was there as Federal SWAT teams sought their suspects in a series of predawn raids, targeting high-class criminals such as Dr. Hany Malek, 61, an allegedly armed-and-dangerous chiropractor accused of keeping an arsenal in his $2 million Tarzana mansion.

“Come out with your hands up,” called an FBI agent in the huge, gun-toting team of camouflaged officers who encircled Malek’s massive suburban home with a swarm of armed vehicles.

Agents cut Malek’s security gate and placed ladders against his tall fences, training guns on his home. Three flash-bang grenades exploded and sirens were activated.

After a few moments, the FBI brought their man down in handcuffs and placed in him an armored truck.

Worse than stealing billions from people who really needed treatment: 

Malek is accused of working with Dr. Harold Tabaie, 78, of Anaheim, a cardiothoracic surgeon, of stealing $134 million in fraudulently billed to Medicare claims for unnecessary atherectomy procedures that resulted in injury to patients.

Authorities say Malek posed as a medical doctor and diagnosed patients with arterial disease, recommending that they receive the invasive procedure in which a bladed catheter is used to clear plaque from arteries.

Tabaie then performed the procedures on patients who did not actually have disease, executing repeat atherectomies on some who he previously treated unsuccessfully with the procedure, prosecutors say.

Wow! Remember, if you or someone you know was planning to vote Democrat next month because you are pissed off about gas prices, this is probably a bigger financial burden.

There's a Really Committal Answer: "To My knowledge"

10/22/26 Fox News:

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., denied Wednesday that she married her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to commit immigration fraud and pushed back against claims that they are related.

But when asked if there's any familial relation with her ex-husband, Omar admitted, "Not to my knowledge." 

I would hope she would have some knowledge of this. For me, Christmas and Thanksgiving gatherings, birthday parties, and parental wedding anniversary parties usually did a pretty good job of telling me which of these boys and girls were siblings. 

It Is Always Nice to See Democrats Supporting Capitalist Entrepreneurship

10/22/26 NBC News:

NORFOLK, Va. — Federal authorities on Thursday charged a prominent Virginia Democrat with racketeering and a money laundering conspiracy as part of an alleged public corruption case involving a cannabis business she co-owns.

Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump who is one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, surrendered to authorities Thursday. She was also charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana. A half dozen others, including Lucas’ daughters, were also in custody and charged in the alleged scheme.

The investigation into the 82-year-old Lucas predates the Trump administration, NBC News previously reported. But the Justice Department’s move, just 12 days before a midterm election, is unusual, as federal authorities have typically avoided taking overt investigative steps against political figures so close to an election. Lucas is not up for re-election this year but has ties to prominent Democrats who are on the ballot....

The indictment alleges that members of the conspiracy “used various business entities” to “disguise the proceeds of illegal marijuana distribution,” and that Lucas “used her political position in the Virginia state senate to insulate” the enterprise “from criminal scrutiny, to further the goal of wealth accumulation.”

In one intercepted phone call in February 2026 with an alleged co-conspirator who has not been indicted, Lucas allegedly said that this was their “last chance at generational wealth,” adding “I’ve gotten too old to not be greedy.”

Lucas has been a proponent of marijuana legalization in Virginia. The state now allows for possession of marijuana for adults over 21, but recreational marijuana sales remain unlawful.

That is set to change; this summer, the governor and state legislators announced an agreement to allow the licensed retail sale of marijuana beginning July 1, 2027.

Greed is ugly when it involves invention and new technologies but so pretty when the greed is setting up a generation for mental illness. 

Switchblades as Protected Arms

 Knife Rights v. Blanche (5th Cir. 2026):

This case presents a Second Amendment challenge to the Federal Switchblade Act (FSA)’s restrictions on switchblade knives. Applying the framework articulated in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, we hold that the FSA is unconstitutional. We determine that switchblade knives qualify as “Arms” and are covered by the “plain text” of the Second Amendment. Because the regulation implicates the amendment, the government bears the burden of establishing that the FSA comports with well-established principles of the Second Amendment and its regulatory tradition. The government fails to meet its burden. Specifically, the FSA’s restrictions on the introduction, manufacture, transportation, and distribution of switchblades fail step two’s “how” analysis. The plaintiffs, however, fail to satisfy the stringent requirements for mounting a facial challenge to § 1243.

 Accordingly, we conclude that this regulation violates the Second Amendment. We REVERSE the district court’s grant of the government’s motion to dismiss as to the § 1242 claim. We AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of the § 1243 claim, and we REMAND for further proceedings.

Are any of you upset enough about gas prices that you are willing to vote for mutilating children and restrictive gun laws? 

This is Both Tragic and Weirdly Weird

 Oakland, Cal. (1974)

01/31/1974: Someone hacked to death three people in a mortuary as they attempting to escape their attackers. Police later arrested a man, 20, for the murders and theft of “several bottles of embalming fluid.” His father brought him to the police station in response to an arrest warrant for rape in an unrelated event.

The embalming fluid theft, and the murders probably caused by the theft, while at first bizarre, has a rational basis. Drug dealers in the 1970s used “embalming fluid” as a street name for PCP into which marijuana cigarettes were dipped. “This eventually led to the actual use of embalming fluid when lacing both cannabis and tobacco cigarettes.”

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: robbery 

Weapon: other sharp[1]

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[1] "Trio Hacked To Death In Mortuary," [Chico, Cal.] Enterprise-Record, Jan. 31, 1974, 2; “Berkeley Man, 20, is Arrested in Oakland Mortuary Murders,” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 09, 1974, 11; “Is PCP the Same as Embalming Fluid?” Medical News Today, Nov. 23, 2023, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-pcp-embalming-fluid, last accessed October 22, 2026.