President Trump’s Department of Justice just put the West Coast on notice.
The DOJ announced a brand-new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force, a multi-district enforcement operation that will surge at least 10 additional federal prosecutors into Northern California, Arizona, and Nevada to pursue health care fraud schemes that have been draining taxpayer-funded programs for years.
The announcement came out of San Francisco, of all places, and the message was blunt: if you are stealing from American taxpayers through fraudulent health care billing, federal prosecutors are coming for you.
WOW! After Nick Shirley stormed Gavin Newsom’s California, the Trump Fraud DOJ Division has launched a WEST COAST “strike group” to go after health care fraud schemes
Prosecutors are surging not just in CALIFORNIA, but in nearby Arizona and Nevada as well 
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The existing Health Care Strike Force model has been responsible nationally for prosecuting more than 6,200 defendants whose alleged
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