What If We Really Are Just Exposing the Tip of the Federal Fraud Iceberg?
A recent investigation reveals significant fraud within federal social service programs, costing taxpayers billions. The Department of Justice has charged 11 individuals in a major health care fraud case linked to the Russian-Armenian mafia. Experts suggest that the scale of fraud could involve thousands of criminals and that the annual losses to fraud may exceed $521 billion.
- ▪Open the Books reported on extensive fraud in federal social service programs, particularly through false hospice billings.
- ▪The Department of Justice's Operation Gold Rush has charged 11 individuals linked to a transnational criminal operation that defrauded Medicare and Medicaid.
- ▪The government loses an estimated $521 billion annually to fraud, with expectations for that number to rise as anti-fraud efforts continue.
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What If We Really Are Just Exposing the Tip of the Federal Fraud Iceberg? Mark Tapscott | 6:08 PM on May 16, 2026 AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Open the Books exposed yet another insight into the stinking, rotten catastrophe that is the massive, systematic, and continuing stealing from American taxpayers via an unknown number of federal social service programs that for decades have all but hung in their windows signs saying "Come Steal." Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Earlier this month, the headline on the Open the Books website proclaimed "Hidden Fees: Taxpayers on the Hook for Foreign-Linked Health Care Fraud Schemes." Here's what was found:In January 2026, Centers for…
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