If you’ve been paying attention to the headlines over the past year, you’ve noticed an uptick in reporting on fraud, particularly in state entitlement programmes like Medicaid and childcare vouchers in Minnesota, Ohio and California, estimated to exceed $100 billion in fraud annually.
When the fraud was exposed by independent journalists, mainstream news organisations swore up and down they’d been reporting on it for a decade. I’ll let the reader judge how seriously to take that. The point is that domestic fraud has been going on for a long time, and that much is in agreement.
