Cybertruck in the parking lot. Empty office inside. Over $1 million stolen from Medicare. Welcome to Gavin Newsom's California, where hospice fraud has become a booming industry and the governor protects the criminals instead of the taxpayers.
Investigative journalist Nick Shirley traveled to Van Nuys—what he calls "the hospice capital of America"—and uncovered a massive Medicare fraud operation that should make every American's blood boil. What he found were dozens of fake hospice companies operating out of strip malls, billing Medicare millions for patients that don't exist while the operators drive luxury vehicles purchased with your tax dollars.
The Fraud Factory
Take Miracle Healing Hospice, which billed Medicare over $1.3 million and collected nearly a million in payments. When Shirley knocked on their door, nobody answered because nobody was inside. The building was completely empty. But outside? A brand new Cybertruck and multiple Mercedes vehicles.
Guardian of Angels Hospice, located in the same complex, billed Medicare $4.8 million. All Day Hospice Care submitted over 12,000 claims in just 19 months, billing for 505 patients at $6,000 each using only two billing codes. That's not healthcare—that's organized theft.
The pattern was identical everywhere Shirley investigated: HFS Hospice Care, Relief Home Health Care, SKH Home Health Care—all empty buildings with white paper signs and fake logos. Some operations ran hospice care, home health care, and adult daycare services out of the same dilapidated building.
Newsom's Shameful Response
When Shirley asked Governor Newsom's office simple questions about oversight and what the state was doing to stop this fraud, the response was disgusting. Instead of thanking the journalist for exposing billions in theft, Newsom's team created memes mocking Shirley and dressing him up in costumes.
"How stupid do you have to be to go after the guy exposing the fraud instead of the fraudsters?" Shirley asked. It's a question every California taxpayer should be asking.
These criminals—many of them foreign nationals—prey on Americans facing death, steal millions, then vanish back to Armenia, Russia, or simply move to another strip mall down the street. And Newsom's California government is helping them get away with it.
This is why President Trump's mandate for government accountability couldn't come at a better time. The days of Democrat-run states serving as fraud playgrounds are over.