California fraud concerns ramp up as man pleads guilty to massive scheme using taxpayers as his 'piggy bank'

As concerns about rampant fraud continue to grow nationwide, particularly in California, federal authorities announced the guilty plea of a man charged in a scheme to defraud taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.Paul Richard Randall, 66, of Orange, California, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud after local authorities say he billed Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicaid, more than $269 million and was paid out more than $178 million for "19 expensive, non-contracted drugs containing low-cost, generic ingredients that were not medically necessary, not provided, or bot...

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