Oz alleges Maine 'looks a lot like Minnesota' regarding entitlement fraud

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

02/08/26 7:00 AM ET


The Trump administration’s top Medicare official has suggested that alleged fraud in Maine’s social services programs may be on par with the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz said there is “another big crisis” concerning alleged social services fraud in Maine during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “It turns out that Maine looks a lot like Minnesota,” Oz said in the interview, which aired Sunday morning.

Maine Republican legislators raised alarm bells after a whistleblower alleged late last year that millions of dollars had been defrauded from the state’s Medicaid program. State Sen. Matt Harrington (R) has demanded an investigation into the matter, calling it “an absolute slap in the face to every Maine taxpayer” in an interview last December with NewsNation. The allegations are similar to an investigation into alleged fraud in Minnesota, in which federal investigators estimate fraudsters funneled $1 billion in funding allocated for social services programs.

The Trump administration has pinned these fraud operations on the state’s Somali community and cited this alleged connection as the reason behind the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) highly controversial immigration crackdown efforts in Minnesota. Oz alleged that the Maine fraud case is also connected to the state’s Somali population, and he said he’s sent a letter to Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) about these concerns.

The CMS administrator’s comments come after a federal immigration enforcement operation in the state. Last month, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to end “enhanced activities” in Maine. Mills has persistently rejected the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown activities across the country, demanding congressional oversight into these operations in a post on the social platform X at the end of January.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5728249-trump-oz-allege-maine-fraud/

[Mister Ed]

1. ...says the TV peddler of fraudulent quack remedies. n/t

[2naSalit]

8. Sounds like...

He and the loomer wench have the same job regardless of title and pay grade.

[Zambero]

2. Speaking of fraud

Does anyone recall a certain someone pitching green coffee bean supplement on Oprah, claiming that it was a surefire easy to way shed pounds quickly?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Oz is an

Erdogan assett.

[twodogsbarking]

4. People from Maine are friendly but they don't seem like they will tolerate assholes. Oz beware.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Oz must have thought that Pennsylvania looked like New Jersey when he ran for senator.

[Ritabert]

6. Says the purveyor of Garcinia Cambogia, Raspberry Ketones and...

....Green Coffee Extract.

[catchnrelease]

7. Maybe they need to head down to Florida

Home of Rick Voldemort Scott, the biggest Medicare fraudster ever. If they want to investigate fraud, why not go there? Oh, no Somalis to blame? Don't want to upset the Cuban population there? Oz is just peddling more of his snake oil propaganda to please the talking yam.

[Zackzzzz]

11. Funny, I was just think of bringing up Scott.

[Harker]

9. He's all crudity...

and crudités.

[Bluetus]

10. Let us be clear. The group that committed the biggest fraud in MN was

Feeding Our Future. This fraud was uncovered by the Walz administration. charged in 2022 under Merrick Garland's DoJ, and 25 defendants pled guilty in 2025. While Feeding our Future did involve many immigrants, the mastermind was Aimee Bock, a white person, and definitely not Somolian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mastermind-and-co-defendant-guilty-250-million

[Wiz Imp]

12. Mills needs to tell him to go fuck himself

[SouthBayDem]

13. Remember, Oz also possibly made a blatantly false, racist accusation against an Armenian-American business

Touring Van Nuys, Oz casually told reporters, “There’s roughly $3.5 billion of fraud taking place here in Los Angeles, in hospice and home care. It’s run, quite a bit of it, by the Russian Armenian mafia, you notice the lettering and language behind me.” Oz then gestured to the Armenian-language signage behind him, including one advertising a family bakery.

Armenian Americans pressed hard for Oz to address the Armenian genocide question on the campaign trail. All they got were meaningless statements from Oz saying that he “opposed genocide” and that “the evils of World War I should be commemorated.” These are the kinds of euphemisms and verbal gymnastics the Turkish government has long used to deflect attention from its crimes.

Oz was also pressured to explain his questionable ties to Turkey and why he served in the Turkish military and voted in the 2018 Turkish presidential election but not the 2018 American elections. Oz also met and dined with Turkey’s autocratic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on multiple occasions and has never fully answered questions about his relationship with that regime.

When someone has actively participated in the denial of historical atrocities against a people and now acts as a gatekeeper of law and order against that same group, questions of retaliation arise.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/armenia-turkey-dr-oz-medicare-fraud-van-nuys-21324295.php

Oz is the LAST person who should be accusing others of fraud.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Yup and Newsom filed suit against him for that

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143608522

[sheshe2]

14. The fraud said what?

Oz, The Wizard.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. What is he, nuts?

there's like 12 people in Maine! I know there are a lot more but if there was going to be corruption like he thinks, there has to be a larger base to draw from.......

[travelingthrulife]

19. Their 'corruption' is that their Democratic governor stood up to Donnie so Maine

is being punished for that.

[Clouds Passing]

17. Oz looks like entitlement fraud

[travelingthrulife]

18. Can someone find this fraud's name in the Trump-Epstein files so he shuts up?

And, yes, they ARE entitlements As in we are entitled to them, asshole