Overview
- Vice President JD Vance, who has led the White House anti-fraud task force since March, said federal actions shut about 800 hospice operations and that 780 operators did not respond after the closures.
- Vance argued that some Democratic-led states have resisted cases and said certain judges are corrupt, which he claimed has stalled prosecutions.
- He said the administration is preparing to bring cases in jurisdictions it believes will be more favorable to secure convictions.
- Vance suggested officials are assessing whether anyone in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office should face scrutiny, while he stopped short of alleging criminal conduct.
- The task force followed probes into large-scale fraud in Minnesota social-services programs that news reports said siphoned billions in taxpayer funds.