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Hospice Fraudsters in Panic Mode: California Scammers Shut Down Shop After Citizen Journalist ConfrontationTaxpayers just got robbed again in Gavin Newsom's California, and the crooks ran like rats when the lights came on.Independent investigator Nick Shirley walked into a Los Angeles "hospice consultants" office that was coaching fraudsters on how to milk Medicare for millions. Staff inside panicked the moment his camera appeared. One worker scrambled, another bolted out the door and peeled away in a shiny new $300,000 Mercedes Maybach.Hours later, the entire operation was gone. Sign ripped down. Business shut. Building emptied."Why are you raising your voice if you have nothing to hide? Why are you so scared about me coming around here?" Shirley asked in the video as chaos erupted.The "consultants" had no answers, just fear. They weren't providing care. They were running a fraud hub, teaching others how to set up ghost hospices and bill taxpayers for services never delivered.This isn't small potatoes. Shirley's exposé uncovered over $170 million in suspicious Medicare billings tied to these schemes. State records show 89 hospice outfits registered to a single Van Nuys office building, with hundreds more clustered in a few square miles of Los Angeles. Many were empty shells: dead phone lines, piled-up mail, no patients in sight. Hospice enrollment in the area exploded by 1,000 percent while the actual population barely budged.Fraudsters were living large off your money, luxury cars and all, while sick Americans and hardworking families foot the bill.Newsom's response? He dismissed the whole thing as exaggerated and even filed complaints calling out investigators. His office bragged about revoking some licenses years ago, but the scams kept rolling and no major arrests or money recovered have followed these latest bombshells.Enough. While politicians in Sacramento play games and protect the system, one gutsy citizen with a camera is forcing these parasites into the daylight.Why run if you've got nothing to hide? The answer is obvious: it's all fraud, plain and simple. Time to drain this swamp, recover the stolen funds, and lock up the thieves bleeding Medicare dry. Americans are done watching their tax dollars fund luxury escapes for crooks while real needs go unmet. Nick Shirley is showing what real accountability looks like. Keep exposing them.