THE CALIFORNIA FRAUD FILE

Fraud in California is measured in indictments, not slogans. This page tracks four dockets from the public record: health-care fraud, homelessness spending, election fraud and city-hall corruption.

Every figure below links to the prosecutor, the court file or the outlet of record. Charged defendants are presumed innocent; convictions and guilty pleas are marked as such.

HOSPICE RING, April 2026 — Attorney General Rob Bonta charged 21 people with billing $267 million to Medi-Cal through a Los Angeles hospice-fraud ring; five were arrested. Six weeks later, the federal government suspended 773 hospices.

FEDERAL TAKEDOWN, October 2026 — the DOJ charged 15 people in Los Angeles, six of them medical professionals, over nearly $2 billion in claims: $1.6 billion in sham substance-abuse treatment, $134 million in unnecessary artery procedures, $138 million in hospice billings and $270 million in fake pharmacy claims.

Our coverage: the hospice ring and the $2 billion takedown.

THE AUDIT, 2025 — a court-ordered audit found the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority could not account for $2.5 billion in spending. HUD then cut the agency's federal funding, after LAHSA failed to verify the existence of nearly 2,300 housing sites on its books.

THE JOURNALIST, 2026 — Nick Shirley, whose Minnesota day-care fraud video went viral, says his crew uncovered more than $170 million in alleged Los Angeles day-care and hospice fraud, with luxury living funded by billed services never rendered. Reporting on the video flagged more than 700 L.A. providers with red flags: clustered addresses and billing without patient documentation.

THE ARRESTS — three people have been arrested in L.A. homeless-services contracting. The money trail is in our LA HOMELESS FRAUD FILE and the LOS ANGELES HOMELESSNESS 2026 report.

COMPTON, 2021 — a city-council runoff decided by one vote. The L.A. County District Attorney charged Councilman Isaac Galvan, opponent Jace Dawson and four others with conspiracy to commit election fraud — prosecutors say they sent voters from outside the district to vote for Galvan.

UPDATE, December 2025 — Galvan pleaded guilty to federal bribery and tax evasion in a separate marijuana-permit scheme, admitting he funneled $70,000 in bribes and hid more than $500,000 in income.

JOSÉ HUIZAR, 2024 — the former L.A. councilman is serving 13 years in federal prison for taking at least $1.5 million in cash and benefits from downtown developers in a pay-to-play scheme.

MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, 2023 — 3.5 years in federal prison for a bribery scheme that traded his council support for university benefits for his son. The Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction.

HARRY SIDHU, 2025 — the former Anaheim mayor pleaded guilty to four felonies for leaking confidential city information in the Angel Stadium sale probe: two months in federal prison plus a $55,000 fine.

WATCH: the Compton election-fraud case and the hospice-ring prosecutions moving through court, and any new hospice rules out of the $2 billion takedown.