NEWSOM’S EMPIRE OF FRAUD: 25% of California Medicaid Looted as Billions Vanish Under Newsom

Multiple senior HHS officials estimate that, under Gavin Newsom, California’s state Medicaid program has lost 25 percent of its budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings.

The scale is staggering: more lost to fraud than many states spend in total.

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple senior HHS officials estimate that, under Gavin Newsom, California’s state Medicaid program has lost 25 percent of its budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings. pic.twitter.com/i442jU4XkE

— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) April 1, 2026

SCOOP: Under Gov. Newsom, fraudsters and organized crime rings have stolen at least $180 billion from California’s unemployment, healthcare, and welfare programs—the largest financial crime in American history.

Welcome to Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud.https://t.co/6kYBPpLAuH

— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) April 1, 2026

Los Angeles County is home to nearly TWO THOUSAND hospice centers.

That’s 30x more than Florida and New York, and more than the next 36 states COMBINED.

Gavin Newscum’s California is littered with FRAUDpic.twitter.com/saZbCO0vta

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 20, 2026

Gavin Newsom is making Somali fraud look like amateur hour. In Minnesota, federal officials estimated between $2 and $10B of fraud. In California, HHS administrators and fraud watchdogs estimate between $180B and $280B of fraud—mass looting of the treasury.

— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) April 1, 2026

Gavin Newsom wants California to be a model for the country. City Journal: Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going? On paper, it funds hospitals, universities, schools, prisons, infrastructure, and other public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening that California Governor Gavin Newsom does not want you to see: massive, systematic, brazen fraud. We conducted interviews with public officials, fraud experts, and political figures, and reviewed hundreds of pages of government reports, state audits, criminal indictments, and other public records on California fraud. From unemployment insurance and Medicaid to failed homeless initiatives and welfare programs, seemingly every state program has been compromised by criminals. The best estimates suggest that, on the governor’s watch, fraudsters, scammers, and organized crime rings have stolen at least $180 billion from taxpayers. Welcome to Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud. (City Journal)

The scale of the fraud reported here is staggering. California is losing $50 billion a year to Medi-Cal fraud alone.

That’s more than 29 states spend on their entire budgets.

The scale of the fraud reported here is staggering. California is losing $50 billion a year to Medi-Cal fraud alone.

That’s more than 29 states spend on their entire budgets. https://t.co/Tgxp1AZH84 pic.twitter.com/tkfoROIa3u

— The Missing Data Depot (@data_depot) April 2, 2026

BREAKING: The JD Vance-led fraud task force has now SUSPENDED 70 California hospice and home health providers, mere DAYS after it was created by President Trump — Fox

The funding is officially PAUSED.

Wow, they are hitting the ground RUNNING, just as the people demanded! … pic.twitter.com/uaiCpBJuS7

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 25, 2026

HOLY CRAP. James O’Keefe caught fraudsters in Gavin Newsom’s California paying homeless people to FORGE voter signatures on Skid Row

This helps get left-wing initiatives on the ballot to be passed

California is the FRAUD CAPITAL! @JamesOKeefeIII pic.twitter.com/9etdWH4JE1

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 24, 2026

The level of fraud in California is staggering https://t.co/9NbGX3PeaY

— America (@america) March 17, 2026