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CTP (S3EMaySpecial11) Fraud Up Close
We lay out why Medicare fraud keeps thriving and why “everybody knows” still doesn’t lead to real consequences. We connect public program abuse to incentives, oversight failures, and one personal story that makes the stakes feel real.
• Video exclusive week context and why dates may not match release timing
• Quick look back at books and authors week guests and topics
• Claims of widespread taxpayer funded fraud and why enforcement feels absent
• Critique of task forces, congressional oversight, and political accountability
• Debate over spending on prevention versus costly enforcement later
• Medicare billing lapses explained through a family caregiving experience
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:27Hello, everyone!
00:30Welcome to Perstitutionalist Podcast's first-ever video exclusives week.
00:40What do I mean by that?
00:42Well, these that are airing, and I'm looking down at my calendar,
00:49Monday, May the 18th through Friday, May the 22nd,
00:56and probably another one as a Saturday monologue show previously run video exclusive on May the 23rd will be just
01:08that.
01:09Previously run strictly to my video channels, felt that you all across the 40-ish audio platforms and potentially reading
01:21via transcript,
01:23need to hear these.
01:25So, when a date pops up, you don't pay a whole lot of attention to it because, you know,
01:33it could have been from a month, it could have been a week ago, it could have been a month
01:37ago,
01:38it could have been a quarter, three months ago, even two quarters, six months ago,
01:44that it originally aired as a video exclusive.
01:48At any rate, follow-up to Books Slash Authors Week, May 2026,
01:57the third time I ran a Books Slash...
02:01Well, second time I did a Books Slash Authors Week,
02:06second time already this year, back in October 2025.
02:10I ran three weeks in a row of that.
02:13So, if you haven't checked that out yet,
02:16on Monday, there was Chris Chote.
02:20On Tuesday, what day was that?
02:23Tuesday, that would have been the 12th.
02:25We had Michael Clawson talking about high-bred publishing.
02:33Again, you're recording the doggone mouth and brain, don't want to cooperate.
02:38Wednesday, I had on Angel Giacomo, if I'm saying that right,
02:44I always get it wrong, the Jackson-McKenzie Chronicles series discussion.
02:50Thursday, we had Grace after relapse.
02:56And on Friday, what day was that?
03:00I'm actually recording this brief intro on Thursday, May the 14th.
03:07So, tomorrow, this will have passed, of course, by the time you hear it.
03:13May the 15th, Friday, we'll be north of Broken and Forever Home
03:20with Holly B. Gutwillinger.
03:25Story about a dog.
03:26Great story.
03:28Great talk.
03:28This week, video exclusives.
03:31I don't have handy the various topics.
03:36So, without further ado, let's just get one on, shall we?
03:41Hello, everyone.
03:43This will be video exclusive temporarily because I do.
03:49I know in advance.
03:50This is going to be too good.
03:53It will come out later across my audio platforms, but later.
03:59So, today, Monday, March 30th, 2026, being recorded,
04:05will drop Tuesday, the 31st, as a video exclusive across my video channels.
04:12So, yes, those listening on audio only are reading the transcript.
04:18Yes, weeks, couple months potentially, after March 31st, it drops on video exclusive.
04:28So, it'll come across the audio only platforms.
04:34Tentatively, loosely, I'm using air quotes there for those on video they can see on audio.
04:40You can't see it, obviously.
04:42Duh.
04:43Right?
04:43Loosely in air quotes, titled Medicare fraud.
04:48Touch on a little other thing.
04:50But, so first, not Medicare fraud.
04:54We all know the taxpayer debased fraud of the left money laundering programs of the daycare centers in Minneapolis, Minnesota
05:09area,
05:10as well as exposed now also in California, and exposed to a lot more other blue enclaves, too.
05:22What a shock, what a surprise.
05:24And yet, Doge is going nowhere.
05:28It was a game.
05:29It was a gimmick.
05:31Although, J.D. Vance was put, Doge, putting that in air quotes again,
05:37and Department of Government Efficiency Fraud Task Force, J.D. Vance, put in charge,
05:44held the first thing, I think, today, Monday, March 30th.
05:49So, there are finally some looking into it.
05:54Why does it take the vice president?
05:56Why isn't Congressional Oversight Committees doing this?
06:00What happened to Doge in Congress?
06:03And at the White House, where did it go?
06:07We've known forever, waste, fraud, abuse, tons of fraud.
06:13Year after year after year, this group, that group, some other group, exposes it,
06:19and nobody goes to jail.
06:23Kristi Noem shouldn't have been fired.
06:25Ham Bondi should be fired.
06:29People need to be charged, prosecuted, and put behind bars.
06:38Blondie, as I call her.
06:40Pam Blondie, right?
06:42Glamming for the cameras.
06:44Now, Kristi Noem glammed for the camera in that ad.
06:48That became controversial.
06:50To me, that's not controversial.
06:52I've talked about it before, but let me briefly...
06:57So, she spent $200, what?
06:59Million or billion?
07:03$200 billion, let's say, on an ad trying to get illegals to use the self-deport app.
07:11Now, I don't have a problem with that, because I understand math and economics and basic accounting, debits and credits.
07:22Spend $200 billion to save $750 billion if you had to then send out ICE teams to round them up.
07:35Those who self-deported because of her ad.
07:38We may be...
07:40Again, I've not seen the numbers, so I'm using arbitrary numbers here, but...
07:45Spend $250 billion, save $500 billion.
07:49That's a good deal, morons.
07:54Kristi Noem shouldn't have been fired.
07:56Pam, glam for the cameras.
07:59Blondie Bondie needs to be fired.
08:02The Kristi Noem commercial?
08:05Good thing.
08:08Proper use of our money to save other monies.
08:13But no one in Washington has common sense.
08:18Except Kristi Noem, it appears.
08:20Who got...
08:21Well, not fired.
08:23I talked about this in a bit, right?
08:25She's now bumped over to S.H.I.E.L.D.
08:29So, it's not really a firing.
08:32It's not really a demotion.
08:33It's a lateral move to head up S.H.I.E.L.D.
08:38rather than be head of DHS to...
08:42But the way I see it is appease the left-carriage crying, which you're never going to appease them.
08:48They're going to ask for every cabinet member to be fired.
08:52And they're going to continue to ask for Trump to be impeached.
08:56And then Vance as president to be impeached.
09:00So, why appease them?
09:04Republican base?
09:06Yes.
09:07It would be about time a Republican president answered to the Republican base.
09:15Fire Pam Bondie.
09:17Also, demand Speaker Thune be ousted.
09:22The RINOs got to go.
09:26Okay.
09:27Back to the Medicare fraud.
09:29We touched on those issues.
09:31We touched on the fraud with the daycare centers.
09:37Medicare fraud been an issue forever as long as Medicare has been around.
09:44I've directly seen it in our family.
09:50We didn't catch it.
09:51We didn't know it right away.
09:53When my dad was ailing after a stroke, we got outside care at a farm.
10:02But we didn't know.
10:04They came in taking care of dad.
10:07Helping with dad.
10:10Also, mom was aged, needed help too, was helping with mom.
10:16We didn't know that the Medicare, the way it's set up, there are lapses.
10:26You can get coverage and the help for a while, but then it lapses.
10:31Then it picks back up again.
10:33Then they reapplied it.
10:35So what this firm was doing, technically speaking, fraud,
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