HORROR: Vice President Vance Tells Story of Elderly Man Who DIED From Neglect as Medicaid Fraudster Got Rich Neglecting Him (VIDEO)

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday told a horrifying story about how fraud affects the most vulnerable among us while speaking at an anti-fraud roundtable, revealing that an elderly man was killed due to a Medicaid fraudster’s neglect. 

Vance, the Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Task Force Vice Chair, held a roundtable on Tuesday with over a dozen State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.

After brief remarks from the White House officials, they held a private meeting with the Attorneys General.

Before closing his public remarks, Vance emphasized that the fraud schemes “are not victimless crimes,” reminding the country of what consequences fraud victims could face, including death.

In a recent indictment in Minnesota, Vance said, a man who was being reimbursed by the Medicaid program to provide services to elderly patients, “was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins.”

Because of this, one of his patients under his watch died “after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people.”

Still, one day before the man died, the fraudster submitted another reimbursement for “services he never provided for a man he never cared for.”

“That man lived his final moments on this earth neglected, while a fraudster got rich by providing services that he never actually provided. That’s what we’re trying to stop, ladies and gentlemen. That’s what we have to fight back against,” Vance told reporters.

WATCH:

Vance: These are not victimless crimes. Sometimes, the most vulnerable people in our community are the ones who suffer when we don’t take fraud seriously. One of the cases that was part of Collin’s series of indictments last week in Minnesota stood out to me and I think highlights how particularly egregious some of these fraudsters can be. And it’s a man who was supposed to be providing services to allow elderly people to live full and independent lives.

And what happened instead is that the man who was supposed to provide these services, reimbursed by the Medicaid program, was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins. And the very man, the vulnerable elderly man that he was supposed to be protecting and looking after, was reimbursed by the taxpayer in order to do exactly that, that man died. And one day before he died, after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people, one day before he died, he submitted his final reimbursement for services he never provided for a man he never cared for.

And that man lived his final moments on this earth neglected, while a fraudster got rich by providing services that he never actually provided. That’s what we’re trying to stop, ladies and gentlemen. That’s what we have to fight back against. It’s a shame that anything like that happens, but if it does happen, the only way to protect those people and the only way to protect the American taxpayer is to ensure that the fraudsters go to prison and that they stop this ridiculous scam on the American people.

Such fraud schemes across the nation are responsible for billions of dollars in stolen tax dollars through fraudulent loans, reimbursement claims, and payments.

President Trump tasked the Vice President in March with leading the White House’s Fraud Task Force and investigations into the various schemes to defraud the federal government.

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