{"id":64930,"date":"2026-08-05T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64930"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:47:56","slug":"how-to-deal-with-fraud-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64930","title":{"rendered":"How To Deal With Fraud Properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/04\/doj-fraud-division-announces-charges-against-19-defendants-in-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article about Medicare and Medicaid fraud in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The DOJ Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, and Pennsylvania Attorney General today announced criminal charges against 19 defendants, including owners and employees of home care companies, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over four million dollars in claims to Medicare and Medicaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Pennsylvania Attorney General also announced a plea agreement involving the final defendant in a previously-charged 21 defendant case involving over $1.7 million in claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department\u2019s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and senior federal and state officials hold a press conference announcing a significant health care fraud takedown and a new Anti-Fraud Initiative in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To emphasize the scope of the fraud in California and New York Dr Oz notes, \u201cthe number one job in the entire state is personal care services.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Press Release from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/fraud-division-announces-charges-against-19-defendants-medicaid-home-health-aid-schemes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Justice<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Acting Assistant Chief Miriam Glaser Dauermann, Health Care Fraud Trial Attorneys Paul J. Koob and Carla Jordan-Detamore, and Eastern District of Pennsylvania Health Care Fraud Chief Anthony Scicchitano, Deputy Chief Paul Shapiro, and Counsel to the U.S. Attorney Sara Solow, led and coordinated the cases charged in today\u2019s Takedown, together with the FBI, HHS, DEA, IRS, and state and local law enforcement partners. Trial Attorneys Paul J. Koob and Carla Jordan-Detamore, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sara Solow, Paul Shapiro, Angella Middleton, Alisa Shver, Jessica Rice and Megan Curran, and Pennsylvania Deputy Attorneys General Benjamin McKenna, Susann Shore, Jonathan Clymer and Jacob Gordin are prosecuting the cases being announced today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the Fraud Division. The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department\u2019s work to combat fraud supports President Trump\u2019s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When people start going to jail for their crimes, the level of crime will slowly decrease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about Medicare and Medicaid fraud in Pennsylvania. The article reports: The DOJ Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, and Pennsylvania Attorney General today announced criminal charges against 19 defendants, including owners and employees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64930\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19908,19910,148,8552,11430,19909],"class_list":["post-64930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doj-fraud-division","tag-medicare-and-medicaid-fraud","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-attorney-general","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-u-s-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64931,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64930\/revisions\/64931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}