The Fraud Task Force Has Its First Big Scalp — And Vance Wants More

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Not every theft is the same. Among the worst is people stealing from the sick and helpless. That is what Vice President JD Vance was talking about Thursday when he announced that the Justice Department has charged 15 people in Minnesota in connection with fraud schemes allegedly involving roughly $90 million in Medicaid and social service funds. One case stood out. A defendant allegedly billed Medicaid for round-the-clock care for a disabled man who was later found dead — a man who, prosecutors contend, received no actual services. Vance called it sickening. He was right. “Our message is simple,” he

Democrats Publish Autopsy, Then Refuse to Sign the Death Certificate

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The Democratic National Committee released a version of its 2024 autopsy Thursday — months overdue, incomplete, and disowned almost immediately by the organization that published it. The report lands like a sigh. It paints a bleak portrait of a party still reeling from its loss to Donald Trump, who carried every battleground state in November. And yet, in 192 pages, it manages to say very little. It does not formally conclude what went wrong. It barely touches on Joe Biden’s exit from the race. It does not mention Israel and Gaza — the fault line that cracked Democratic coalitions in

The Soldier He Said Didn’t ‘Deserve to Live’ — And the Senate Seat Platner Still Wants

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What kind of man writes those words about a soldier who took four bullets? That is the question now trailing Graham Platner, the far-left Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, as a deleted Reddit post from 2019 continues to find its audience. The post — attributed to his old account, “P-hustle” — targeted a helmet-cam video of Private First Class Ted Daniels, who was shot four times in a 2012 firefight with the Taliban and later received the Purple Heart. Platner’s commentary was not a critique. It was contempt. “Dumb motherf*cker didn’t deserve to live,” he wrote. He called Daniels a

Cash for Votes on Skid Row: Feds Nail California Election Activist in Fraud Scheme

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On Monday, the Justice Department announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong — a longtime California voting activist — has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges stemming from what prosecutors describe as a nearly two-decade scheme to pay people for petition signatures and voter registrations. Some of those people, according to federal filings, were homeless individuals living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The price for their civic participation: two or three dollars. It is a tawdry story. And it is being told loudly, deliberately, by an administration that has made election integrity a marquee issue. Armstrong is the latest figure

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