00:00I'm here in Los Angeles with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
00:02We're talking about fraud.
00:03This place has become one of the...
00:05The Epicenters for Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in America.
00:08Three and a half billion dollars just here.
00:10In Los Angeles County, we think around hospice and home health care.
00:14Then you add in...
00:15In all the other things that they have in Minnesota, but in California scale, it's huge.
00:20And what we have witnessed is a seven-fold increase in hospice.
00:25In LA County, seven-fold.
00:28That doesn't happen.
00:30Naturally, there are not seven times more deaths in LA County than there were five years ago.
00:33These frosts are...
00:35And these do tend to be foreign influences.
00:37These are Russian-Armenian gangs.
00:40that are leading a lot of these efforts, we believe, have been able to corrupt and work...
00:45with doctors who are willing to lie to use that MD degree as a degree...
00:50as a license to kill.
00:51A lot of it's driven by foreigners who came to Los Angeles...
00:55very different culture, Russian-Armenian groups...
00:57and this mafia seems to have taken over the system.
00:59They...
01:00They corrupt the doctors.
01:01They normalize fraud so that everyone sort of expects it.
01:05But...
01:05that the magnitude of it is so great that we have to take it on aggressively.
01:09It's a focus...
01:10in this area for CMS.
01:11And this administration or the President Trump is not going to tolerate taxpayer dollars...
01:15being stolen because people aren't paying attention anymore.
01:17We're focused on this.
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