And so the government, you know, enforcing the mandate from the American people to be kind and compassionate to our citizens has set up this program to help families who are dealing with these particular struggles. Now, what we've seen is Somali fraudsters at an industrial scale [are] taking advantage of [the Medicaid autism] program to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. And there are two separate tragedies there. The first tragedy is that you have people who pay into the federal government, who pay into the irs, who pay their taxes, expecting that those taxes will go to help their fellow citizens. (03:18–03:27)
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Claims Somali fraudsters are exploiting Medicaid autism programs for millions of dollars.
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