Overview
- At a Los Angeles news conference Thursday, Attorney General Rob Bonta rejected the administration’s portrayal of California as complicit in fraud, calling the claims reckless, false and politically motivated.
- He said California DOJ has recovered nearly $2.7 billion over the past decade, including about $2 billion under the state False Claims Act, roughly $740 million from Medi‑Cal prosecutions and more than $108 million through the TRUE task force.
- Bonta highlighted hospice enforcement, citing two dozen civil suits, criminal charges against 109 defendants since 2021 and roughly 280 hospice closures in the past two years.
- CBS News has reported that the White House is preparing a California-focused anti-fraud task force, with an expected executive order to name Vice President JD Vance as its leader.
- Scrutiny intensified after CMS administrator Mehmet Oz posted a viral video alleging Armenian-linked hospice fraud in Los Angeles, drawing backlash, a civil-rights complaint from Gov. Gavin Newsom and a request for an independent review from Sen. Adam Schiff.