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Trump crackdown uncovers $6.5B in fraud — and your taxes were wasted on diamonds, Ferraris and a boat named ‘Butt Nekkid’

More than 450 alleged fraudsters — including 90 doctors and medical professionals — were busted for bilking at least $6.5 billion in fake Medicare and Medicaid claims, with one greedy nurse splashing her ill-gotten gains on an $865,000 Bulgari necklace, $594,000 Ferrari and a $4.6 million Philippines beach resort, authorities said.

The colossal crackdown, which spanned 45 US states and territories, was announced Tuesday by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who called it “the greatest combined federal and state effort combating health care fraud in history.”

In total, 455 people were netted — including alleged con artists who blew the taxpayer funds meant to help the poorest Americans on luxury cars, jewelry, mansions, fine art, an NFL box and a yacht cheekily named “Butt Nekkid.”

In one of the most egregious cases, a student athlete in Florida died during basketball practice — after the doctor who was part of an $89 million fraud scheme signed off on his cardiovascular test after giving it only a cursory glance, the Department of Justice charged.

A nurse in Texas was charged with billing Medicare for $1 million for each patient she applied unnecessary tissue grafts to, the feds alleged.

Marizel Yukee, 49, of Las Vegas, was charged with fraudulently billing $906 million in claims for which she was paid $297 million.

She allegedly funneled the stolen funds to buy posh cars, real estate, jewelry and even built a $4.6 million beach resort in the Philippines, prosecutors claimed.

When she was arrested, the feds seized $30 million from her bank accounts, $467,000 in cash, a $594,000 Ferrari 296 GTS, seven other luxury vehicles, an $865,000 custom Bulgari necklace and another million worth of jewelry, officials claimed.

Separately, three Florida nurses were busted for an $118 million tissue graft scheme. Leigh Tesar allegedly spent $215,000 on a luxury box suite at the Raymond James Stadium, where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play, according to a criminal indictment.

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I plainly don't believe them, yet, because they haven't laid out details of when this investigation took place.

NYPost is about as trustworthy as a Mule you just met.

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Here's the Wall Street Journal covering it.

This is the CNN headline: Trump administration charges 455 people, including doctors, with $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud

It has less information about the fraudsters themselves, but a key claim is repeated:

Officials highlighted one defendant who they claim rubber stamped a student’s cardiovascular test as normal without alerting the family that his heart was enlarged. The 18-year-old college basketball player, Kaiden Francis, died weeks later during a workout.

Oh, and check out the New York Times headline:

Ferraris and Shell Companies: Justice Dept. Unveils Medicare Fraud Charges

Medicare paid nearly $15 billion in 2025 for expensive wound coverings called skin substitutes, a spending spike that analysts have called one of the largest examples of waste in the federal health program’s history.

The spending was fueled by multiple kickback schemes that enriched both the companies that manufactured skin substitutes and the doctors and nurses who applied them, according to charges the Justice Department recently filed.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, announced the charges Tuesday as part of a larger suite of health care prosecutions against 455 defendants who, in total, are accused of $6.5 billion in fraudulent billing.

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The charging documents describe Mr. Rowan assisting health care providers with setting up shell companies in which the manufacturer could deposit doctors’ rebates. Amounts as large as $71 million would be wired into those accounts, the documents said.

The charges against Mr. Rowan list some of his purchases with the Medicare funds, including a $47,000 Rolex watch and a life insurance policy that cost $1 million.

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“She was using human beings, American citizens, as living piggy banks,” Andrew Ferguson, the executive director of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, said of Ms. Yukee’s behavior at a news conference on Tuesday.

She used that money, the documents say, to purchase a $600,000 Ferrari, a $865,000 Bulgari necklace and a multimillion dollar home in Hawaii, as well as to fund the construction of a “$4.6 million beach resort in the Philippines.”

It's the same information as in the NY Post article, but the Post article goes more in-depth.

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I never said I doubt that the charges exist or that the press release was held by Todd Blanche, what I doubt is every word that comes out the administration's fucking mouth.

Also, NYPost is still a shit source.

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Sure, you can feel that way. We all have our own preferences...

And a preference is just another term for a bias that has a positive connotation.

Let us enjoy posting our own content.

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