Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and California Gov. Gavin Newsom keep screeching about Trump, and those always seem to be attempts to distract from what's been happening in their own states.
In Newsom's California, arrests have been made related to a health care fraud scheme that the DOJ says has ripped off taxpayers to the tune of about $50 million:
The FBI on Thursday announced the arrest of 8 of 15 defendants charged in connection with a major multi-million dollar health care fraud scheme. https://t.co/0DSoGkp7A1 pic.twitter.com/NZCa8R9hPM
— KTLA (@KTLA) April 2, 2026
From KTLA:
These arrests include the owners of hospices, who Essayli alleges billed taxpayers millions of dollars to serve the terminally ill who reportedly weren’t sick at all.
Those defendants include three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist. Officials claim they ran fraudulent hospice care facilities that drained Medicare by using individuals who did not have terminal illnesses as beneficiaries.
All are facing years in federal prison.
Big story, right?
Well, maybe if that happened in Florida it would have been the lead story on all three network nightly newscasts, but that wasn't the case. At least one network covered it, according to Newsbusters' @BonillaJL:
WATCH: CBS Evening News is the only network evening newscast to report on the early morning FBI raid in California, after the discovery of massive hospice fraud.
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 3, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: CBS News is first to report the arrest today of a married couple in Southern California accused of… pic.twitter.com/hSAWuv14Zx
As we frequently say, evidence of media bias is often seen not in what they do report, but in what they choose to ignore.
It’s funny how the big news here is not the news itself, but that the news reported the news… shows you how normalized it’s become for the news to not report news that the news doesn’t want to be news
— Damian Tysdal (@DamianTysdal) April 3, 2026
If CBS had not hired Bari Weiss to be the Editor in Chief of CBS News there wouldn’t be a single major broadcast news network covering this enormous fraud story. The left can’t exist without the cover of the mainstream media. https://t.co/M5DILHMe00
— jimgilvin (@jimgilvin) April 3, 2026
This is part of the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts. Apparently Democrats like Newsom don't take this seriously and are fine with taxpayer dollars being ripped off in massive amounts.
Why are they in a hospice if they are surviving multiple years??
— Kamala's Kackle (@FakeNominee) April 3, 2026
best hospice ever, give them all the monies 😂
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 3, 2026
You might recall that after Nick Shirley started exposing massive fraud in Newsom's California, the governor's press thought it was best to mock Shirley instead.
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