🔴WATCH FULL: https://youtu.be/fbn0sONnd_EShow more Dr. Mehmet Oz exposes “beehive of corruption” and fraud they found in Minnesota: “We spoke to a bunch of whistleblowers, and we discovered that there has been, for years, a cover up ... Culturally, you were dissuaded, intimidated from speaking up about the fact that you thought there was fraud happening.” But Minnesota, he warns, is just the “tip of the iceberg.” Show less
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Whistleblowers Uncovered
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| So we spoke to a bunch of whistleblowers and we discovered that there has been for years a cover-up. | |
| Whether it was done at the highest levels of government, I can't assert that. | |
| I don't know that. | |
| But I know culturally you were dissuaded, intimidated from speaking up about the fact that you thought there was fraud happening. | |
| Anytime people raised the possibility that, for example, the Somalian subpopulation who have different cultural mores than the folks who have historically been in Minnesota, might be taking advantage of systems that were built for Minnesota nice people. | |
| And this is what was told to me by people working in the Department of Health and Human Services there, from folks who are police, law enforcement. | |
| They were witnessing it, but if they said something, one woman was walked out of the building and censored for a while, then allowed to come back because they couldn't discover or at least assert anything that she had done wrong. | |
| But when she came back, she was basically shuttled around. | |
| So could not play a real role in the government anymore after she had raised concerns about what was going on with this home and community-based service monies. | |
| We also learned that these 14 programs that they themselves have acknowledged were problems were so poorly audited. | |
| And the reasons for that, we spoke to the auditor in the state, is that the people who were supposed to be running these programs didn't know how to do this audit. | |
| They didn't really know how to keep score. | |
| They weren't comfortable with some of the financial tools you might use to keep track of how money is being spent. | |
| Culturally, they weren't really the kinds of person you want in there. | |
| You know, you need to sort of be like an investigative individual. | |
| I trust you sort of, but I want to verify that you're telling me the truth. | |
| You need to have a desire to want to do that work. | |
| So you have well-meaning people trying to be nice, try not to ruffle any feathers. | |
| If you do ruffle feathers, you get outed. | |
| Although you may still have a job there, you don't get to do anything in that job. | |
| And that ostracizing of individuals is quite problematic. | |
| So the systemic nature of it is what stunned me. | |
| I didn't expect for it to have been done in such an organized way. | |
| But when you see that, and then you deal with the reality of what's happening in Minnesota right now, which is a complete lack of confidence that the services that were supposed to be provided for the individuals that Hubert Humphrey said were the daughter of life, the twilight of life, living in the shadows, they're getting services sometimes, not getting them other times. | |
| So the trip to Minnesota recently culminated with a trip, with a visit to a building called the Griggs Building. | |
| This is a building decades old. | |
| It was a textile mill. | |
| They made linen there, converted it into an office building. | |
| But Jan, you wouldn't walk in this building. | |
| It's a bad part of town. | |
| It's all boarded up windows. | |
| It looks like a communist office building. | |
| And yet, apparently there were 400 businesses running out of there in the last couple years that had generated about $380 million of bills for the federal taxpayer or the state of Minnesota. | |
| And these are all social service businesses. | |
| So as you start to probe into how this beehive of corruption arose, the question Does come up, you know, who owns the building? | |
| Like, how did this even come about? | |
| The building owner would not let us go into the building, although I know because there have been search warrants in the past that basically you have a bunch of empty offices with maybe one computer terminal inside of it. | |
| You don't have this bustling community of people trying to do good for other Minnesotans. | |
| You know, these are a bunch of folks that were scam artists, we think, taking advantage of a naive system. | |
| And here's the hard part to fathom. | |
| And I want everyone to take a deep breath now. | |
| Minnesota, which is cold this time of year, is just the tip of the iceberg. | |
| I think what we're seeing in Minnesota, which is billions of dollars of fraud, that hurts our most vulnerable people and puts them at risk, because you steal not only their money, but you can steal their lives by putting them at risk for bad services provided at the wrong time that actually take away opportunities for others to get treatment. | |
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Whole-Scale Health Care Fraud
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| But what we're seeing in Minnesota is the tip of the iceberg because it is dwarfed by what I saw in California, which is whole-scale cultural malfeasance around health care. | |
| There is an acceptance that you need to be in the fraud business, especially in Los Angeles. | |
| And the magnitude of fraud there, we believe, is approximating $4 billion just in hospice and home health care. | |
| And I want to spend a few minutes walking you through what's really happening there because if it's reflective of what might happen in other parts of the country or might already be happening elsewhere, | |