Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday told a horrifying story about how fraud affects the most vulnerable among us while speaking at an anti-fraud roundtable, revealing that an elderly man was killed due to a Medicaid fraudster’s neglect.
Vance, the Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Task Force Vice Chair, held a roundtable on Tuesday with over a dozen State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.
After brief remarks from the White House officials, they held a private meeting with the Attorneys General.
Before closing his public remarks, Vance emphasized that the fraud schemes “are not victimless crimes,” reminding the country of what consequences fraud victims could face, including death.
In a recent indictment in Minnesota, Vance said, a man who was being reimbursed by the Medicaid program to provide services to elderly patients, “was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins.”
Because of this, one of his patients under his watch died “after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people.”
Still, one day before the man died, the fraudster submitted another reimbursement for “services he never provided for a man he never cared for.”
Hellbound and Down 