AG Rob Bonta on rooting out fraud: Oh, all right, if we must
So now Rob Bonta has a passion for rooting out fraud.
The California attorney general, who in February scoffed at the prospect of widespread fraud in the Golden State — and accused the Trump administration of politicizing the issue — got the memo at last.
On Thursday the AG said his office had charged 21 people in connection with 14 hospices that had billed taxpayers $267 million for sham services.
Good. But talk about late to the ball.
It wasn’t until the media — led by the California Post — and the Trump administration, led by fraud czar JD Vance and federal prosecutor Bill Essayli, pressed the case against pervasive fraud that California brass would even concede the problem.
Just two months ago, in fact, Bonta staged a news conference in downtown LA to blast federal claims of California fraud as “reckless,” “false” and “ridiculous.”
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