Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money.
Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history – diverting more than $270 million in tax dollars.
🚨 WOW! CMS Chief Dr. Oz just personally showed up to a Somali FRAUD HOTBED in Ohio, home to the second-largest Somali population behind Minneapolis
7 buildings concentrated in one area have 288 "HOME HEALTH" Medicaid companies 🤯
That's 41 companies per building, some of which are nearly VACANT
Franklin County is 3 TIMES above what it should be in "home health" billing
"We also identified 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road."
"Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio."
"If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank. Vice President Vance, who's from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have."
One reason why people don’t care about the @TheAcademy and its awards like they used to. People just care about good art - no matter who. Not this forced nonsense. 😵💫
A decade ago, Hollywood decided it would no longer honor films based purely on merit but also on the diversity of the cast and production team. In 2020, they formally tied Best Picture to diversity.
The Academy expanded its membership by roughly 40% in a decade through an explicit push to diversify its ranks.
The Oscars will proudly tell you that last year’s invitees were:
>41% women
>45% people of color
>55% from overseas
For 88 years, the Academy selected members and honored achievement based on merit. For the last 10 years, invitees went from 112 per year to over 900 to meet diversity targets.
This devalues and dishonors great American films and creates perverse incentives that lead studios to inflate diversity numbers in hopes of recognition by their woke peers.
Meritocracy must be restored to film.
TMZ Founder Harvey Levin finally opens up and tells the truth about what Democrats have done to Los Angeles
“I'm not only a born and raised Los Angelino, but I'm second generation. My dad was born and raised in LA, so this is my life. And I have seen this city just fall apart over the last 8-9 years, but especially the last 4 years
The homeless problem is out of control in this city. I've been chased by people, a guy with a hammer, walking out of my gym.
He chased me with a hammer.
I had a mentally ill woman, a homeless woman, take a boulder and trash my car and I caught her doing it, and I realized there is nothing I can do. What am I going to do, get her arrested? I mean, what is that going to do? Am I going to sue her? So I literally looked at my car, watched her walk away, and said, "I live in Los Angeles…."
It's really sad when people see stuff like this happening”
I want to her very crystal clear. We DO NOT have to live like this. California and Los Angeles do not have to be like this
We have to mass deport that insane amount of illegals that have poured across the border from Mexico into California for decades and then put the homeless in mandatory treatment
But the most important thing is, new leadership. Vote Red, vote for Republicans
California elections are rigged and we all know it, illegals are voting. Fixing California elections must be a federal priority
While you weren’t paying attention, this is all the fraud that’s recently been uncovered in Ohio
- 7 nearly empty buildings housing 288 companies billed a combined $250 million between 2018–2024
- Investigators found widespread shell companies tied to Somali immigrant networks in Columbus, which is the 2nd largest Somali population in the US. Ohio spent $1 billion on home health care services in 2024 alone.
- Nearly 100 Medicaid home health companies found operating out of a single empty building in Columbus billed taxpayers $66 million over a few years for services like “companionship”
- $3.8 billion total in Pandemic Unemployment Fraud
- $477 million+ in fraudulent claims
- $3.3 billion in overpayments due to weak controls and an outdated system
- 9 Medicaid providers charged with $500k–$578k stolen taxpayer money with over billing, falsified timesheets
- Home health agencies sentenced for $5.7 million schemes due to inflated hours, ineligible and fake patients
This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt kicked off the city's mayoral debate in a heated exchange on Wednesday after Pratt called Bass "an incredible liar," and claimed she misguided Angelenos about the facts of the Palisades Fire when it broke out last year.
CBS News' @JonVigliotti, who has been closely reporting on and investigating the blaze for over a year, fact checked two key moments from the debate.
I would actually pay $9 for a quality, pour over cup or coffee! But only in a city, at a local coffee shop with an equally quality ambiance to match.
Unfortunately for #Starbucks, that’s never been my experience w/them.
Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9
He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you’re paying for the “experience�� of getting a Starbucks coffee
“In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile.”
He says Starbucks customers “want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging — well, this is a really affordable premium experience”
How out of touch could a person possibly be…
Imagine the city government forcefully and legally come into your living quarters and do random inspections, charge you for it, and claim it’s for your good. Scary!
@cbuscitycouncil
#Columbusohio
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NEW: A Chicago man and woman have been shot in their car with a baby in the back seat.
Three people were seen running up to the vehicle and firing at least two dozen shots. They then ran away & jumped into an Alfa Romeo.
Witnesses say they ran up to the car to find the baby, holding a lollipop and crying, in the back seat.
The woman was shot throughout her body and was rushed to the hospital. She is in critical condition.
The man was shot in his rear and arm. He is reportedly in good condition.
The baby was not injured.
No one is in custody.
Horrible.
Video: jess_statefacts / ig.
Daycare fraud in Ohio is rampant
- 5,000 daycares in Ohio
- 67 fraudsters were charged in 2025 alone
- $8.5 million dollars stolen
- 3 stole over a million dollars each
- One facility claimed 100 home delivered meals per day for just 4 patients. The total bill, $1.2 million
- Taxpayers billed for 4,500 pieces of equipment that was never ordered
- Daycares being overpaid discovered
“A few had Muslim names, and we could not confirm that any came from the Somali community”
“Again, fraud concerning daycares in Ohio is leading to new proposed legislation at the State House”
NEW: While other singers drop F bombs and virtue signal about ICE, Jelly Roll praises Jesus Christ at the Grammys.
“I know they're gonna try to kick me off here, so just let me try to get this out.”
“First of all, Jesus, I hear you and I'm listening, Lord. I am listening.”
“I want to tell y'all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus and anybody, everybody can have a relationship with him…”
In Columbus, we look out for each other. I spent Wednesday afternoon helping shovel snow with some great kids on the city’s north side. Share a pic in the comments below of you helping a neighbor and tag @ColumbusGov. @ColumbusDPS@ColsCitySchools