Feds Raid Multiple Fraudulent "Autism Services Centers" in, Get This, Minnesota

Hm. It's almost as if Democrat-run states deliberately allow massive fraud to illegally funnel money to their key constituent groups.

It's the same scam we've seen before: essentially fake "health care providers" bill the federal government for "services" they never provide to "patients" who don't exist or don't even have the ailments they're supposedly being treated for.

This could quickly be stopped by the most basic of verification protocols, but the Democrats always turn those all the way off.

And, as usual, they find a liberal criminal, in this case a 70-year-old Karen, who has some certification which allows her to sign off on the completely-fake billing.

And no further questions are asked.

Federal agents raided multiple Minnesota autism service providers Thursday in the latest law enforcement action involving a state already under intense scrutiny over allegations of widespread fraud in taxpayer-funded programs.

The FBI confirmed that federal and state agencies were conducting "court-authorized investigative activity" at multiple locations across Minnesota, including sites in the Twin Cities and Rochester, according to MPR News.

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Iska Inc. received more than $16.7 million in Medicaid payments between 2018 and 2025, according to state data reviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune. The business participated in Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, which provides services to children and young people with autism and has faced increasing scrutiny over fraud allegations.

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The Justice Department also announced charges against 15 defendants in May in connection with alleged health care fraud schemes involving more than $90 million in intended losses. The cases included an alleged $46.6 million scheme targeting Minnesota's autism intervention program, which DOJ said saw Medicaid claims surge from more than $600,000 in 2018 to more than $400 million by 2025.

Meanwhile: Greasy Gavin Newsom is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to provide luxury gourmet food to welfare lifers.

California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients

As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.

Salmon, beef, organic produce, and Amy's Kitchen meals: these are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can get delivered to their homes each week, for free.

Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."

She can also thank Governor Gavin Newsom. As part of his nearly $12 billion Medicaid reform package, welfare recipients--including illegal immigrants--can receive free, "medically tailored" meals and groceries, delivered straight to their door. They can get foods for free that would cost ordinary people a small fortune.

The food service is part of CalAIM, Newsom's multibillion-dollar Medi-Cal reform package. Signed into law in 2021, CalAIM directs Medicaid dollars to social programs like transitional rent payments and housing deposits. Newsom called it a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California."

The transformation is working. The most popular of CalAIM's "Community Supports," by far, is "medically tailored meals." That program and a related offering send prepared meals or "tailored" grocery items to qualified Medi-Cal recipients' homes.

The state makes eligibility easy. Applicants need a qualifying Medi-Cal card, a provider's recommendation, and an eligible condition. In a 2024 presentation to a Los Angeles nonprofit, Andrew Barrier, a former executive of a California medically tailored food contractor, told his audience how easy it was to enroll.

"They're not looking to push people away from the program, they're really looking for people to be on it," he said. "Step one is that chronic condition. This is really how most people come in, and they could have diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular, mental- and behavioral-health disorders--we've seen anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD. Again, the list is very, very long."

From there, the food shows up at recipients' doorsteps. Medi-Cal pays contractors to deliver the food for up to 12 weeks, after which eligible recipients can re-enroll. And it's not cheap: across 24 weeks, between food and delivery, a single "medically tailored meals" recipient costs taxpayers more than $1,500.

Here's the Corrupt Karen who signed off on fake billing for fake patients suffering from fake autism and even warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN on the truly massive fraud or else "the feds will come in."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:16 PM

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