Federal agents cracking down on what they call explosive fraud.

Criminal organizations accused of bilking the federal government out of billions in an alleged hospice care scam.

I think she’s found 7 billion dollars worth of fraud in California.

So this is unfortunately a problem that is much bigger than Minnesota.

Federal agents from the FBI and DOJ have just launched one of the most massive healthc care torching operations in US history.

And the fallout is reaching the highest levels of the California government.

18% of all of the home healthcare billing in the entire United States is done here.

While Governor Gavin Newsome scrambles to shut down more than 280 hospice licenses, investigators say a 7 billion black hole of taxpayer money was built by quietly labeling healthy seniors as terminal.

Just look at the amount of fraud that’s been perpetuated in the Kingdom of California.

He is the fraud king.

So that’s that’s what I have to say about the governor.

In one FBI raid, agents even found $77,000 in cash stuffed in boxes under a school nurse’s bed.

Money tied to fake hospice patients who were never dying in the first place.

But the real question is, how were thousands of people declared dead on paper while still alive? And did California’s leaders ignore the warning signs until the FBI finally showed up at their door?

The war over California’s Death Door Hospice Network exploded when Vice President J.D.Vance announced that the fraud uncovered in the Golden State dwarfs everything we saw in the Minnesota daycare scandal.

I I think we have a fraud problem that is much worse in California than it is in Minnesota.

I was talking actually to our small business administrator.

I think she’s found probably half a billion dollars of fraud in Minneapolis and and and the broader Minnesota area.

In Minnesota, about $250 million was stolen through fake meal programs for kids during CO, which led to over 75 people being charged.

with nearly 50 people facing federal criminal charges tonight in what investigators call the largest case of COVID fraud yet nationwide.

And it allegedly happened right here in Minnesota.

5 years after federal investigators first uncovered the scheme to siphon $250 million in pandemic relief.

The number of people charged in this massive fraud continues to grow.

But looking at California, the state sat on a 7 billion black hole, 28 times larger than Minnesota’s scandal.

Yet, hospice agencies in Los Angeles County were allowed to multiply while regulators in Sacramento stayed stuck in neutral.

And what we have witnessed is a sevenfold increase in hospice in LA County.

Sevenfold.

That doesn’t happen naturally.

Now, think about that imbalance.

Unless seniors in Los Angeles are dying at rates no one has ever seen anywhere else in America.

Those numbers don’t just hint at fraud.

They scream that a full-blown criminal industry was allowed to grow in plain sight.

And for seniors like Nancy, that industry didn’t look like a spreadsheet problem.

It looked like someone was quietly signing away her right to stay alive.

82-year-old Nancy was reviewing her quarterly Medicare summary notices when she saw something that stopped her heart.

The records showed she was currently enrolled in full-time hospice care.

For Nancy, this wasn’t just a billing error.

When a criminal recruiter stole her Medicare number and forged her signature, they essentially signed her death warrant on paper.

In the eyes of the government, Nancy was terminal, which meant she was suddenly disqualified from receiving life-saving curative treatments for her actual minor ailments.

These paper deaths are the backbone of the multi-billion dollar fraud.

Meanwhile, the criminals billing Medicare for Nancy were raking in roughly $260 to $800 a day.

Multiply that by hundreds of victims like Nancy, and you start to see how one county could bleed out billions.

While the people meant to protect her spent years arguing over paperwork instead of shutting this down.

And Nancy wasn’t the only one whose life was signed away in a language she never saw coming.

The Newsome caught headline comes directly from the California State Auditor’s Report 2021-123.

This document is a literal blueprint of administrative failure.

For 30 years, the state sat on its hands while the number of hospice agencies in LA County increased by 1,600%.

State regulators were reportedly siloed and disjointed.

They weren’t even checking if the doctors certifying these dying patients were actually alive.

It’s not hard to actually go and visit these places if you want to.

We should be asking why haven’t we already done this before? Investigators found that some agencies were using the stolen identities of deceased medical professionals to sign off on terminal diagnosis.

It took a federal torch and the threat of 7 billion in losses for Sacramento to finally start axing those 280 plus licenses.

But by the time state officials began slamming doors shut, the fraud networks had already evolved.

They weren’t waiting for patients to come to them anymore.

They were going out into the streets and hunting the most vulnerable, including people who didn’t even speak English.

70-year-old Margarito doesn’t speak English.

She was approached in a grocery store parking lot by a woman offering to help her get a better wheelchair.

The woman took a picture of Margarito’s Medicare card and had her sign a form she couldn’t read.

They’ll come to you, cold call you, and say, “Yes, we you have an illness.

We think it might be uh one that might benefit from us.

Come on in.

” The patients don’t realize they’re signing up for hospice.

Months later, Margarito still has no wheelchair, but she has something much worse.

Her cardiologist and eye doctors are now refusing to see her.

Without knowing it, she had signed a hospice election form.

This bait and switch is a common tactic used by hospice rings in Los Angeles, especially in non-English-speaking communities.

They dangle free groceries or medical equipment, but the hidden cost is the patients entire medical freedom.

Patients are bought and sold like trading cards.

Ads tell recruiters to post up at busy shopping centers or senior living addresses to knock on doors.

They promise patients walkers, wheelchairs.

It’s a non-ending benefit.

That hospital is making, you know, 4,000 a month.

Now, if you want to see the face of this $7 billion crisis, look at the recent convictions that are finally happening.

Petrosidian of Granada Hills was just sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for masterminding a fraud scheme.

On July 14th, 2025, his co-conspirator, Juan Carlos Esparza, pleaded guilty in connection with the same operation.

Fichian and Esparza used stolen identities of foreign nationals to pose as business owners.

They operated four shamos hospices, controlling three of them, even though the listed owners were foreign nationals who had no idea their identities were being used.

They even stole the names and personal information of several physicians, including two who were already dead, to falsely certify patients for hospice care.

When the FBI kicked in Fichian’s door, they seized nearly $16 million that had been funneled through shell companies.

He admitted to paying one physician $11,000 in hush money after wrongfully using their Medicare license to process over $1 million in fraudulent claims.

Then there’s the Jessaza Zaias case.

She was a 34-year-old nurse from Santa Clarita who worked full-time for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Zas was the CEO and owner of Healing Hands Hospice and Humane Love Hospice, both based in Van Ny.

While working her full-time job, she fraudulently build Medicare for hospice care for over 100 people who weren’t terminally ill.

From June 2023 to May 2025, she caused at least $2.

5 million in fraudulent billings.

Zas and her associates went to retirement homes in Fresno and Kern counties after hours when managers were gone.

They knocked on patients doors and asked for personal information to enroll them in hospice.

She then submitted forged doctor certifications to Medicare.

When the FBI arrested Zas and executed a search warrant at her home, they didn’t just find forged documents.

They found $77,000 in cold, hard cash stuffed into boxes hidden underneath her bed.

One of my neighbors came out and said, you know, they banging on the door, screaming FBI, search warrant.

And uh that was rather loud, which I’m sure they have to do, you know, and I was kind of shocked at that point.

There was a dozen agents buzzing around everything.

She was indicted in June 2025 on six counts of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Zas might face a maximum of 10 years in prison if she is eventually convicted and a $250,000 fine awaits her for healthcare fraud, plus an additional mandatory two years for aggravated identity theft.

But as striking as these cases are, Fichian and Zas are just cogs in a much bigger machine because what investigators found packed into four blocks of van looked like an assembly line for death on paper.

When CMS administrator Dr.

EMTT Oz stood in the middle of the Van Ny Los Angeles neighborhood on January 27th, 2026.

He pointed out something impossible to ignore.

42 hospice agencies operating within a fourb block radius.

So you can see these are medical buildings.

They’ve got cerillic writing, Russian Armenian writing on both sides.

There’s lots of action it seems.

I don’t know how many patients are getting care.

And take a look at this map.

a cluster of 287 hospice providers in a two-mile radius, some in strip malls, unmarked buildings, even a wrecking yard and vacant lot.

In this fourb block area in Los Angeles, there are 42 hospices.

So, either there are a lot of people dying here or you’ve got a fraudulent activity that is so good that everyone wants to get in on it.

Think about that for a second.

Unless there’s a localized plague killing seniors at apocalyptic rates, those numbers are impossible.

What Dr.

Oz exposed was a shadow economy of death where criminals are literally competing for terminal patients to milk the federal government.

In one building in Van NY, investigators found 112 hospice and home health agencies operating from the same address.

State auditors visited the location and found paper signs taped to doors, unopened mail piling up behind glass doors, and suite numbers that didn’t exist.

This boarded up area above my head here is a big hospice center.

There apparently quite a few hospices around here, 42 within a four block radius.

And these guys stole $16 million.

Listen carefully.

Dr.Oz also pointed at the Armenian script on business signs and called out what he described as the Russian Armenian mafia as a driving force behind the fraud.

They just got an address.

They could claim was a hospice and then they ran the business claiming people were at home getting services, which they really weren’t.

What we have learned is there’s roughly $3.

5 billion dollars of fraud taking place here in Los Angeles in hospice and home care.

This video triggered a massive political explosion on January 28th, 2026, just one day after Oz’s van NY video.

Governor Nuomo immediately filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services claiming Oz’s comments were racially charged and caused a 30% drop in business for local Armenian bakeries.

This video is impacting one business owner.

Liz David Jovana, an Armenian bakery owner in the San Frernando Valley, says his business is down 30% in just a day after he says he was targeted in a social media lie from the Trump administration.

A business is down now 30%.

Poor guy, small businessman, saying they’re somehow connected to the mob around hospice.

Well, hospice.

We’ve been after that for years and years before Oz was even on the scene.

to vilify an entire ethnicity, a community, a community that’s very proud to be American.

By the way, it is truly beyond the pale and and completely unconstitutional.

Newsome’s complaint may have shifted the conversation to civil rights and rhetoric.

But it did not explain how a system this broken kept bleeding billions for years.

And the only way this scam worked for a decade was by gaming one weak link in California’s system, the hospice license itself.

So, how did fraud rings siphon off an estimated $7 billion without getting stopped years earlier? One weak point was speed.

The California Department of Public Health could take more than 5 months just to investigate a single complaint about a hospice agency.

Fraudsters learned the timing and turned it into a playbook.

They would set up a hospice, bill Medicare aggressively for about a year, and then sell that license to a new shell company before the first serious audit ever landed.

By the time regulators showed up, the original operators had vanished.

The paper trail pointed to a new owner with no obvious ties, and the money was already gone.

It was a game of musical chairs played with seniors lives, where every time the music stopped, the state was the last one to sit down and noticed the room was empty.

And even when the DOJ finally seized roughly $3 million tied to the Fichian ring, that was a drop in the bucket compared to the 7 billion that may have already leaked out unnoticed.

Now, with FBI raids uncovering cash under Jess Zaiia’s bed, 280 hospice licenses axed across California, and federal officials publicly calling out whole neighborhoods like Van Nuts.

It’s clear the government is finally swinging a torch at this shadow industry.

But the real test isn’t how many doors they kick in for the cameras.

It’s whether victims like Nancy and Margarito fully get their lives and medical freedom back.

So, is this the start of a real dismantling of a criminal empire or just a temporary political crackdown? Let us know in the comments below.