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“Newsom's office spent a million bucks so nobody could look at his travel bills, then turned around and asked for another million so nobody could look at the Medi-Cal fraud everybody already knows is happening. That's not fighting fraud, that's fighting the people counting it — two million dollars spent, zero dollars recovered. And it's coming out of the same Medi-Cal budget that's supposed to be paying for somebody's hospice bed.”
“Look, any governor's office needs legal resources to respond to what are clearly politically motivated federal inquiries — that's just due process. I mean, due process for the guy being investigated, funded by the people he's investigated over, but — you have to let the administrative process play out before you assume the worst, and — wait, did I just say the fraud probe needs to be blocked so the fraud probe can play out? That's not — let me start over.”
The receipts
The Pentagon has failed its audit eight years running - the only major federal agency never to pass one Military Times, 19 December 2025
Gavin Newsom torches $1M in taxpayer cash to thwart probes of fraudIn the world of Gavin Newsom, fraud investigations are something to fight, not assist.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office quietly asked the department of finance for an additional $1 million to stave off congressional probes of California’s hospice-fraud scandal.
· Feds probe Gov. Gavin Newsom’s travel, personal spending as new details of DOJ probe revealed from the morgue, 12 Sep 2026
· Newsom’s California is shaking down taxpayers — and the getaway vehicle is an ambulance from the morgue, 8 Sep 2026
· Gavin Newsom’s nanny state hits the road from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
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