The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is withholding more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the administration suspects widespread fraud and noncompliance in both states.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority from receiving federal funds on Monday, citing years of financial mismanagement, fraudulent contracting, and the criminal conviction of a former agency executive.
The alleged mastermind behind one of the largest pandemic fraud schemes in American history landed in federal custody Thursday after being arrested in Somalia and extradited to the United States.
Two Republican senators launched a formal inquiry Thursday into improper unemployment insurance payments across New York, California, and Massachusetts, targeting the three Democratic-run states for a combined $1.3 billion in potential fraud and mismanagement.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended all federal funding to Los Angeles's primary homelessness agency Thursday, citing "obvious fraud," "wanton mismanagement," and the repeated failure to safeguard taxpayer money.
Vice President JD Vance has officially referred Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation surrounding fraud.
A bombshell House Oversight report alleges Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's administration spent millions of dollars hiring private investigators to silence state employees who tried to blow the whistle on what became one of the largest welfare fraud scandals in American history.
House Republicans have escalated their investigation into Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue, requesting that five of the organization's board members sit for transcribed interviews and hand over documents related to allegations of foreign donor fraud.
