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Listen to the report from Fox News. Agents moving in today, busting a man accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars meant for the homeless and spending that cash on a lavish lifestyle. Correspondent Matt Finn is live in Los Angeles for you. And, you know, folks were warned about this and lo and behold, here it is. Yeah, this is it behind me, John. The feds say this man was contracted with the city and county of Los Angeles to house and feed up to 600 homeless people. But instead, he was misusing tens of millions of dollars to live a luxurious life. Exclusive Fox video shows the feds early morning bust here at the L.A. mansion. Forty two year old Alexander Sucre was arrested. Sucre's one hundred and twenty five thousand dollar Land Rover was also seized by law enforcement. The Fed say Suker defrauded the city and county of L.A. out of $23 million in taxpayer dollars for not only his mansion and car, but a second home in Greece, luxury vacations, designer clothes, and private schools. He was living the high life while the people suffering homeless on the streets with no shelter, no food. They're living out in the streets. People are literally dying. And this guy is out vacationing, buying homes, buying Range Rovers, and going shopping. Prosecutors say Suker was supposed to provide three nutritional meals a day to the homeless, but during one inspection, Suker only had canned beans and ramen noodles on hand. The Fed say Luker lied about various aspects of abundant blessings, including fake vendors, facilities, and the homeless actually getting meals. The U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. says they are actively investigating at least 12 other similar fraud cases here in California. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Assaylee says there's a tremendous amount of fraud in this state and that today's bust of one man who misused $23 million alone may show how little oversight there is. California was pushing this money out quickly. A lot of money went out the door with, frankly, very little vetting, very little checks and balances, and he's one of the individuals that got it. The suspect is scheduled to make his first appearance later today. He faces up to 20 years if convicted on a federal case. The local district attorney is also planning on prosecuting John. Now, this is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact we now have the same man Nick Shirley who did the incredible job of discovering massive fraud in Minneapolis and exposing it to the world that has landed in California And he now saying that even worse than anyone else could have imagined Before I get to that though I want to tell you about my good friends over at Bitcoin IRA I got to ask you a question. 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Oh, there's massive fraud in California. I mean, the homelessness has just increased as they receive more money. And that's just one part of it. And like you talked about the light rail and everything like that, the fraud is like crazy in California. And they have the highest taxes. Yeah, they want more. Nick, has anybody approached you about this thing? I tweeted it about it. I had never heard about it, but these guys educated me on it called Quitan, which is this framework where you can actually sue on behalf of the state and on behalf of taxpayers. Has anybody approached you about thinking about using all of the information that you've garnered to try to launch some of these lawsuits or no? Yeah, I actually had somebody reach out to me the other day about it. So I'm going to actually hop on a phone call with that guy. Yeah, also, as I understand it, some of these whistleblower laws reward the whistleblower with something like 20 to 30 percent of amounts. Up to 50 percent in some cases. Yeah, that are. I don't know if it's like fines or it's amounts that are recaptured. Recaptured. But I don't know, Nick, you could become a billionaire here just with all the billions you've exposed. I know, right? I got to sit down and figure it out. I know it's not why you're in it, but. You'd be the most well-loved billionaire in America if you didn't. Absolutely. Well, the way to do it is, you know, since you're drafting off of these other news reports, is to set up your own tip line. So, Nick, what's your website? Or do you have a website where people can donate? And do you have a tip line Because you wouldn get the whistleblower awards for the stuff Fox 9 been doing for a decade but for the next one you could So what is your website where people can donate, Nick? Yeah, everything just on social media. So they can message me on any platform. I should probably get a website going. Nick, what's your social media handle where people can DM you and donate? Yeah, it's just Nick Shirley. And if you go on X, I do have my tip section open. So if you would like to donate there, that gives them all the, whether it be Venmo, Cash App, Crypto, you can all do it right there. By the way, I love that this guy is doing this on his own. He's just like, yeah, if you want to support, go for it. I'm just going to be out here exposing all this waste, fraud, and abuse. That's what I'm doing with my life now. I'm not afraid. Nick Shirley was in San Diego. He now estimates billions of dollars in fraud under Gavin Newsom's leaderships. And they want more money. They want to raise taxes even higher than they are right now. There's also Benny Johnson, who says his team is traveling to the fraud capital of the world. He's now saying it's California. They say the fraud uncovered in Minnesota was very bad and led to the destruction of Tim Walts' career. But Gavin Newsom's California is far worse, saying the American taxpayer needs firsthand to understand how criminal California's fraud is robbing our nation blind. He said, here's just a glimpse of what we already know. State auditor in California found, ready for this, 70 billion. Think about that number. 70 billion in taxpayer funds that have been lost. Like they just disappeared. No accounting for them whatsoever. 24 billion in California loans spent on non-existent homelessness programs. That means someone stole $24 billion. $18 billion poured into non-existent high-speed rail. You heard Nick talk about that a second ago. $32 billion for COVID relief funds that have been stolen. $2.5 billion, ready for this word, lost to snap fraud. Billion spent on rebuilding after the Palisade fires, but no homes have been built. That is just some of what's being exposed right now. This is all happening in California. It's truly incredible. But California is the fraud capital of America. And the taxpayer funded nonprofits there are embezzling our money by the billions. And the governor is allowing it to happen. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in-depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast, and we will see you back here tomorrow. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.
