California Democrat politicians are a special breed — they’ll point directly at a lovely blue sky and tell you it’s green. What’s so confounding to many, however, is that all too many voters will believe them despite their endless broken promise and lies.
Golden State Attorney General Rob Bonta is most known for filing endless gender cases and going after Trump. What he is not known for, however, is cleaning up the corruption in state government or doing much about the rampant healthcare fraud.
On Thursday, Bonta patted himself endlessly on the back and congratulated himself over the fact that he’d finally dug up some graft and was prosecuting 11 individuals:
The top state prosecutor says investigators caught 14 fraudulent hospice companies who had billed MediCal and Medicaid for $267 million in non-existent services after they received a tip from the California Department of Healthcare Services.
“This was a brazen, calculated criminal scheme that exploited the medical system, stole from the state of California and Medicaid and prevented services and care from going to sick individuals who actually need it,” Bonta said of the crime.
Bonta’s office filed felony criminal charges against 21 suspects for the healthcare fraud crimes.
Now if you could go ahead and figure out where the $24 billion in unaccounted for homelessness spending went, we’ll be good.
PATHETIC: California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) used his press conference to attack President Trump — even as the Trump administration has made cracking down on fraud, particularly the rampant hospice fraud that has exploded under Governor Gavin Newsom, a top priority.… pic.twitter.com/QHt4zw0IEs
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 9, 2026
“While healthcare fraud might be President Trump’s shiny new political talking point. California DOJ has been going after healthcare fraud since 1979. For decades, Trump is late to the party.”
Note: It's debatable whether he said, "For decades, Trump is late to the party.” It could be argued that he said the state had been fighting "since 1979. For decades."
Regadless, what a galling statement, “Trump is late to the party.” Trump hasn’t been president for decades, genius, and he and his team investigating matters is the only reason you’re looking into them now.
It gets worse though: even as California is becoming known as the fraud capital of the United States, Bonta claims he’s been a fierce warrior throughout:
“This is just the latest example of the California DOJ’s long standing ongoing and successful efforts [against] hospice and MediCal fraud. We have been doing this work for years. We’ve been doing it successfully before certain people in this country decided to think about it for the first time,” he said.
Luckily I wasn’t sipping my coffee when I read that because I probably would have spit it out.
SHAME: Kevin Kiley Owns Gavin Newsom With Receipts That CA Is the True 'Fraud Capital of America'
DOJ Reveals $270M Medi-Cal Fraud Scheme That Exploited Oversight Gaps Under Newsom
First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli is unimpressed by Bonta’s rhetoric, and the two have gotten into a war of words on social media in recent days. Essayli triggered the attorney general by calling out California’s failure to fight fraud. Bonta clapped back, but Essayli finished him but good.
“Maybe you should spend more time prosecuting your own fraudsters and filling up your prisons, and less time cooking up political lawsuits against the Trump Administration,” he wrote.
I said “prevent.”
— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) April 8, 2026
Having my office prosecute fraudsters to whom California blindly handed out millions does not count as “fighting fraud.”
It’s the federal government cleaning up after you and the Governor’s incompetence.
Maybe you should spend more time prosecuting your own… https://t.co/9GZIOpAuJa
Bonta bragging about his fraud efforts in California of all states is the height of hubris. Which means, should a Democrat take back the White House in '28, he’ll probably get a plum job in the administration.
Editor’s Note: California is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the Democrat Party and the “progressive” movement.
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