Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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Somali fraud scheme exposes billions siphoned from US, one state set to crack down
Somali fraud scheme not limited to Minnesota: Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek is imposing new requirements that remittance payment businesses ensure that customers are lawfully in the U.S. before they can send money to foreign countries. He hopes other states follow suit.
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HHS demands accounting from Minnesota to prove feds' money didn't 'fuel illegal and mass migration'
Children and families chief wants "comprehensive list" of state entities that got federal funding going back six years, citing "public statements from hundreds" of state human services employees.
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Prescription for fraud? GAO finds serious abuses in Obamacare exchanges
Remember when Americans were told that the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) would lower health care costs and that if you liked your doctor, you could keep her? How things have changed over the past 15 years. Health care costs continue to rise faster
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Food stamp data show thousands of liquor, smoke shops are approved for EBT, raising fraud concerns
More than 5,000 liquor and smoke shops were approved as retailers under SNAP, raising fraud concerns. There's no way to determine how much alcohol, tobacco, or other "non-compliant" goods have been sold nationwide. At least 20 states refuse to share data with the feds.
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U.S. Comptroller who spent decades trying to shrink government has big ambitions for Trump
Walker said that the biggest savings are to be made in eliminating duplication, waste, fraud, and payments to dead people and foreigners in major entitlement programs. He also thinks President Trump can accomplish that goal.
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Audit shows millions in questionable taxpayer spending at former college
State Auditor Keith Faber is questioning $17 million in spending at Eastern Gateway Community College.
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Massive fraud by Somali immigrants in Minnesota hands GOP political hammer against liberal programs
Officials say some money siphoned away by Somali immigrants made its way to Kenya and Somalia to the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Al Shabab.
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Acetaminophen-autism link research gets boost from Texas Tylenol liability fraud lawsuit
Johnson & Johnson "recently tried this tactic three times," transferring liabilities without assets, "after it faced large verdicts because its talc powder caused cancer in women," Paxton fraudulent transfer lawsuit says.
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Trump administration pushes to remove noncitizen Medicaid enrollees
Effort launched to provide states with reports of individuals enrolled in Medicaid who do not appear in federal databases.
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Musk: 'DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything'
"The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized," Elon Musk said.
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Report: DOGE cuts behind nearly half of all layoffs this year
The vast majority of the DOGE-related cuts were from March, according to the report.
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With $500 million at risk, Brown University escalates probe of student journalist for mini-DOGE
Ivy League school makes public some of the employee information it accused Alex Shieh of "improperly" using, civil liberties group says. Threat letter says he spread false information, without noting it's from New York Times.
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You Vote: With Musk planning to step back considerably from his role with DOGE, has he succeeded?
Musk initially said DOGE would aim to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, but he later cut that in half. At a Cabinet meeting earlier this month, Musk said DOGE was on pace to cut $150 billion from the federal budget.