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.
Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who posted a video in December showing him investigating allegedly fraudulent day care centers run by Somali migrants, posted 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 hearing held by the House Ways and Means Committee.
“We had a previous secretary who I asked questions about what was going on with the waste, fraud and abuse, and I don’t know if you recognize this, I asked Secretary Becerra the same question: What’s going on at 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, California? Does that, does that ring a bell to you at all?” Van Duyne asked Kennedy,
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