{"id":2592572,"date":"2026-04-19T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-la-hospice-scams-cost-us-5b\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:47:56","slug":"rfk-jr-la-hospice-scams-cost-us-5b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-la-hospice-scams-cost-us-5b\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr: LA Hospice Scams Cost US $5B"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-la-hospice-scams-cost-us-5b%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2592572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article from the Daily Caller News Foundation reports that hospice fraud in the Los Angeles area could total around $5 billion, based on testimony from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and coverage highlighted by independent journalist Nick Shirley, including a House Ways and Means Committee hearing. It describes allegations that hundreds of hospice licenses were tied to a single Van Nuys address and that fraudulent operators enrolled residents by offering incentives and enrolling them in hospice care they didn\u2019t actually need, with stays often lasting about 18 days while many patients did not die. Kennedy attributes the scheme to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inflation-contributing-to-declining-optimism-among-farmers-republican-senators-warn-in-letter-to-federal-reserve\/\" title=\"Inflation \u2018Contributing To Declining Optimism Among Farmers,\u2019 Republican Senators Warn In Letter To Federal Reserve\">operations run<\/a> by certain foreign communities,including Armenians and Estonians,which allegedly generated hundreds of millions in fraud. The piece notes that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vances-task-force-uncovers-6-billion-in-potential-fraud-begins-taking-action-report\/\" title=\"JD Vance&#039;s Task Force Uncovers  Billion in Potential ..., Begins Taking Action: Report\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-pandemic-unemployment-money-from-past-year-stolen-bulk-of-it-in-foreign-hands-report\/\" title=\"Half Of Pandemic Unemployment Money From Past Year Stolen,  \u2018Bulk\u2019 Of It In Foreign Hands:\u00a0Report\">anti-fraud task force<\/a> created<\/a> under Vice President J.D. Vance suspended federal funding to nearly 450 hospices in the Los angeles area. It also cites broader fraud concerns, including a City Journal report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brett-favre-repays-600000-in-mississippi-welfare-fraud-case\/\" title=\"Brett Favre Repays 0,000 in Mississippi Welfare ... Case\">welfare fraud<\/a> in Minnesota tied to Somali migrants (~$9 billion), whistleblower claims in maine and Ohio about similar schemes, and investigations into about 500 suspicious day-care centers in Washington state, alongside discussions of legislation to obscure information about child-care establishments. The article ends with a disclosure about licensing and republication guidelines from the DCNF.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House committee Thursday that the total cost of hospice fraud in Los Angeles could reach $5,000,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickshirleyy\/status\/2004642794862961123\">video<\/a> in December showing him <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >investigating allegedly fraudulent day care centers run<\/a> by Somali migrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickshirleyy\/status\/2033708929398845886\">posted<\/a> a similar video looking into reputed hospice companies in the Los Angeles area in March. Republican Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne asked Kennedy about the reported fraud during a <a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/event\/full-committee-hearing-with-health-and-human-services-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing<\/a> held by the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a previous secretary who I asked questions about what was going on with the waste, fraud and abuse, and I don&rsquo;t know if you recognize this, I asked Secretary Becerra the same question: What&rsquo;s going on at 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, California? Does that, does that ring a bell to you at all?&rdquo; Van Duyne asked Kennedy, who responded, &ldquo;No, I, I, I could guess, why don&rsquo;t you tell me?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had over 100 different licenses for hospices, yep, right at this address, and we asked him what he was doing about it, basically nothing,&rdquo; Van Duyne replied.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Can you walk through what your office is actually doing on the waste, fraud, and abuse?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump placed Vice President J.D. Vance in charge of an anti-fraud task force which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/vance-holds-first-meeting-of-a-new-anti-fraud-task-force-targeting-benefit-programs\/\">first met<\/a> on March 27. The task force <a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/file?id=3480660\">suspended<\/a> federal funding to nearly 450 hospices suspected of fraud in the Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve already shut down 500 hospices and Los Angeles, and incidentally, we haven&rsquo;t had one call from Congress or anybody else about complaining because clearly these were fraudulent. A lot of these places, like you say, they&rsquo;d have, they were just invented addresses,&rdquo; Kennedy explained.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would obtain patient identification or they would pay people, they were going and giving people in poor neighborhoods flat screen televisions, $600 and then they would enlist them and enroll them in the hospice and we were paying them $6000, and the interesting thing is almost none of them ever died.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Typically, the stay in a hospice is about 18 days, these people stayed forever. Nothing ever happened because they weren&rsquo;t actually there, they were just invented,&rdquo; Kennedy continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And it was operated by certain, foreign communities, a lot of Estonians and a lot of Armenians, and there&rsquo;s an incredibly great Armenian community in Los Angeles and very few of them were involved in this, but the ones that were, were making hundreds of millions of dollars out of fraud and just stealing money from us. I think the cost has been about $5,000,000,000.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>City Journal published a report in November detailing significant welfare fraud in Minnesota, much of it perpetrated by Somali migrants, which some federal officials <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FOX9\/status\/2001733325980078247\">estimate<\/a> to total at least $9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Whistleblowers in Maine and Ohio have alleged that similar schemes by Somali scammers have taken place in those states, while over 500 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CarleenJohn1970\/status\/2005782418587070696\">suspicious day-care centers<\/a> are being <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Breaking911\/status\/2005696904387256774\">probed<\/a> by independent journalists in Washington state, which is considering legislation to mask information about child-care establishments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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Kennedy Jr. said the total cost of hospice fraud in Los Angeles could reach about $5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Independent journalist Nick Shirley had released a December video in which he investigated allegedly fraudulent day-care centers run by Somali migrants, and in March he posted a video examining hospice operators in the Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne questioned Kennedy about waste, fraud, and abuse, citing 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, an address she said housed more than 100 hospice licenses and noting that little had been done about it. Kennedy asked for details, and Van Duyne described the situation and pressed Kennedy on what his office was doing to address fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece notes that President Donald Trump appointed Vice President J.D. Vance to lead an anti-fraud task force, which held its first meeting on March 27 and suspended federal funding to nearly 450 hospices suspected of fraud in the Los Angeles area. Kennedy described persistent fraud: facilities with invented addresses that enrolled patients by paying people to enroll them-sometimes as little as $600-while the arranged patients would generate around $6,000 in payments. He said many of these patients did not die, with stays in hospice lasting far longer than normal because the facilities were not actually operating as real hospices. He attributed much of this activity to operators from foreign communities, including Armenians and others in Los Angeles, and claimed those involved had earned hundreds of millions of dollars, estimating the total cost at about $5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Beyond this, City Journal published a report in November detailing substantial welfare fraud in Minnesota, much of it linked to Somali migrants, with some federal officials estimating the total at least $9 billion. 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