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Episode: $170 Million Homeless Scam: How Ghost “Urgent Care” Companies & Crooked California Developers Are Stealing Funds Straight From Your Taxes w/ Eric Nissen
Description: California’s state-level homelessness spending is about $1.5 billion per year… and that figure doesn’t even include the ~$900 million spent by Los Angeles. But if there are still 131,000 homeless in the state, where is all the money going?
Independent journalist Eric Nissen found an alarming pattern: ghost businesses with no operating hours, developers pocketing millions in a single flip, and a fraudster who was running FIVE businesses out of a single storage closet.
Eric Nissen reveals the shocking reality behind the state’s escalating crisis, detailing a staggering $170 million in fraud linked to homeless initiatives like Pro...