Last Thursday, members of President Donald Trump’s administration met in Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the Buckeye State’s ongoing fight against fraud. Ohio is the first state in the country to share corporate registration records with the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Detection Center, granting investigators immediate access to important information. The announcements made last week...

Nationwide, Americans are struggling with affordability, public safety, and government waste—and Democrats’ big, bold solution is a revenge tour against President Donald Trump. During a Thursday on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Daily Signal Senior Political and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke argued that the Democratic Party’s new agenda, “Project 2029,” focuses more on opposing Trump than...

In an exclusive interview, Daily Signal legal analyst Mehek Cooke discussed with Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald why the Justice Department launched its inaugural state partnership roundtable in Ohio, how data sharing could help investigators identify fraudsters who target multiple government programs, and why other states should join the effort. This transcript has been slightly...

Today is primary day in California—with high-profile races for governor and Los Angeles mayor—so voters should prioritize candidates with strong records of fiscal discipline.   The Golden State has a history of fiscal irresponsibility that has strained budgets, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, is the clearest example. The program has expanded drastically over time,...

Officials have long promoted a partnership between state and federal governments, and that came to fruition this week as Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, visited the Buckeye State. While Ohio has seen updates at the state level on tackling childcare fraud, the issue of fraud remains a newsworthy...

A bill introduced in the Ohio General Assembly earlier this year is seeing changes as lawmakers craft how to deal with concerns about childcare centers. In January, Republican state Reps. Josh Williams and DJ Swearingen introduced House Bill 649, with the House Children and Human Services Committee continuing to review the bill. The bill requires...

A grand jury indicted 15 people Thursday for an alleged health care scheme that illustrates a “culture of fraud” in Minnesota, the FBI and Justice Department announced. “It is a crisis in Minnesota,” claimed Collin McDonald, assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement, in a DOJ press conference. “A culture of fraud has taken root.” FBI...

Republicans are discovering billions of taxpayers’ dollars going to waste, being spent fraudulently, and abused by American bureaucracy systems, specifically the welfare state. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is leading the fraud investigations, rooted in immigration policy issues, in Congress. “A lot of this is being done by foreigners,” Gill said at a Republican Study Committee...

This past December, whistleblowers came to me, and they started warning about what they believed to be massive Medicaid home health care fraud here in the state of Ohio. They weren’t just talking about a few bad claims. They were actually describing what they believed to be a systemic fraud pipeline right here in Columbus....

In the wake of a recent investigative report from The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak on suspected Medicaid fraud in Columbus, Ohio, Republicans held a press conference on Tuesday to lay out their plans for tackling the issue. Rosiak also spoke, discussing his findings. As Rosiak recapped, Ohio has home health centers, a program allowing people...

With Ohio facing scrutiny over Medicaid fraud, Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday announced a series of new prevention measures from the Ohio Department of Medicaid—but critics question if it’s enough. The announcement from the governor’s office noted the initiatives are meant “to strengthen and build-upon long-standing efforts to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the...

The newest fraud task force has been formed on Capitol Hill and it’s going after all 50 states. Congressman Brandon Gill, R-Texas, will lead the investigation, making the first stop Ohio, where a $250 million Medicare scheme was recently uncovered. Gill believes this is just the tip of the iceberg. House Oversight Chairman James Comer,...

The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak revealed the extent to which fraud tied to “Medicaid Millionaires” exists in Ohio. The state’s home health program allows people to get paid to care, even for their own family members. Rosiak’s review of Medicaid data from the Department of Government Efficiency showed Ohio grants Medicaid waivers for people to...

Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses. Consider Ohio. At one address in Columbus,...