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12 charged with stealing $10 million; 10 million people lose health coverage, no one charged

“They found twelve names and ten million dollars in a childcare scam inside a week, warrants and all. The number of people who lost health coverage — ten million, same digits — took an independent analyst working nights off public data to add up, because nobody in government had the job of counting it. Steal ten million, you get a perp walk; lose coverage for ten million, you get a secretary telling you it won't matter much.”

Sal

The receipts

The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)

Feds charge 12 people in $10 million California childcare fraud scheme

Washington Examinerright§20:43 EDT

Federal prosecutors charged 12 people in Southern California with fraudulently collecting more than $10 million from government-funded childcare programs despite allegedly caring for few or no children at their licensed facilities. The Department of Justice announced the charges Tuesday after authorities arrested 12 defendants and…

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