I have sources who would be very helpful to federal investigators in investigating fraud within the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). Washington is a blue state, and both Governor Ferguson and AG Brown are taunting the Trump Administration, like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Washington would be a good test case for the administration, because the same type of fraud is seen in other blue states. (Minnesota currently garners most of the headlines.)
Based on my investigative experience, all the blue states are using similar schemes to defraud the federal government. The common denominator is a lack of accountability and of proactive system protocols to prevent fraud at both the state and federal levels. I have some suggestions later in this article on how the federal government can expedite these cases before the cows come home. These suggestions are not rocket science.
Washington State is attracting the DOJ’s attention, especially Assistant US Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. AAG Dhillon has sued 23 states and the District of Columbia for withholding certain voter registration information. Washington was included in this number, as were 21 other blue states...and Georgia. The alleged HHS frauds are intertwined with election fraud and immigration enforcement issues. What are these states hiding?
My Washington sources were involved with a significant upgrade to the VA medical records system. The $33-billion upgrade was a boondoggle from the beginning, and it still hasn’t been fully deployed. My sources told me of incidents that I believed constituted the fraudulent theft of federal funds in ways that veteran deaths. So far, I’m unaware of anything having been done with the information.
My sources are now working with the Washington HCA on various healthcare programs that require reporting to HHS. Again, they have first-hand knowledge of alleged fraud. For example, federal funds were diverted to services that HHS didn’t authorize, as when administrative salaries were padded in HHS reports with funds diverted elsewhere. The sources have internal documents that may reveal the administration’s specific intent to divert federal funds. So far, I haven’t been able to pass this information along to the federal investigators.
Governor Ferguson is continuing to fund illegal aliens and other liberal programs without pushback. He signed off on the most significant tax increase in state history, including a new law imposing a sales tax approaching 10% on professional services (here) and other tax hikes. The new revenue will be added to the state’s operating budget. Another new payroll tax is already being proposed for January 2026 in the next legislative session.
My sources indicate that these tax increases are intended to fill the budget gap caused by the loss of federal funding. With the new tax revenue going into the general fund, it is easy to divert funds to cover programs for illegal aliens. Further, there are discussions about how to pass these new sales taxes through to HHS as a reimbursable expense. Washington is stiffing the taxpayers yet again.
As most news consumers know, the DOJ is currently investigating alleged HHS fraud in Minnesota. These types of crimes would be significantly aided by insider information to develop probable cause for criminal search warrants, rather than playing the subpoena game. My sources in Washington can provide information that would expedite the exposure of alleged fraudulent HHS diversion of funds for illegal purposes. This fraud is a target-rich environment.
The feds are asking Minnesota employees for tips. My experience with federal tip lines has not been good in the past when calling in my official capacity (but those are stories for another time). In the past, tip calls would generate index cards by the thousands that traveled like snail mail, or, if in digital form, were not well triaged. Tip lines in the federal government are slow! I speculate that this stems from stove-piping between agencies and bureaucratic inertia.
I coined the term “Mission Focused Strategic Communications” many years ago as a subset of the “spontaneous order“ that emerges in emergencies—9/11 or Katrina—to describe how people begin to share actionable information without delay to those who can act immediately. For example, the FBI field offices had information regarding the flight training of the 9/11 terrorists.
However, proactive individuals trying to accomplish tasks were stymied by the FBI’s hierarchical, stove-piped structure, which prevented them from passing information to those who could act quickly. A successful strike is a failure. There is no one left to prosecute. The military has a similar concept of the OODA loop. In simple terms, get inside the enemy’s decision-making cycle to exploit it before the enemy can react. You’re dead if the enemy gets inside your loop first.
Here are a few suggestions for expediting these investigations:
One. Elon Musk is a creative innovator who gets it, gets things done, and has witnessed first-hand the massive fraud at USAID and the bureaucratic inertia to stop it. He could aid in the criminal investigation/prosecution of those robbing taxpayers in broad daylight, as we all want.
Musk could help build tip portals powered by AI that can quickly triage tips—routing them to strike teams comprised of FBI, HHS, IRS, and FinCEN agents with forensic support, who can immediately respond to put hides on the wall. To his credit, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent gets it, but it’s hard to turn the bureaucratic aircraft carrier on a dime. The taxpayers want accountability quickly and are not seeing any apparent action.
Two. I’m not being dismissive of the investigators who are inundated with piles of paperwork. To make their work productive, the government must cut the bureaucratic crap so investigators can chase crooks instead of being burned out with collecting the beans.
Case in point, the SSI auditors were on my tail for a $2 payout on what was a worthless share of stock that my disabled son received from his grandma. It took me two months to get the auditor off my back. The ROI for the resources used on this bean was not worth the effort.
Three. For heaven’s sake, use off-the-shelf GIS programs (ESRI) to cross-check voting rolls and ghost businesses. Doing so will expose instances where 30 voters registered, or where childcare businesses are located, at the same porta-potty as Nick Shirley did in Minnesota.
Four. Lastly, “Follow the money, Honey!” to ensnare those directing these operations.
Yes, I’m being vicious, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Marxists led an insurgency in the streets of Minneapolis, likely aided by Governor Tim Walz, AG Keith Ellison, and Mayor Jacob Frey. They are deflecting attention away from the massive fraud to conceal their likely culpability. It is a war between ideologies - a free society and a repressive totalitarian one that seeks to destroy our culture as we know it.
Please share this email address with anyone who can help: ron@americanthinker.com.
Ron Wright is a retired detective who served 35 years with Riverside P.D., Calif. Ron earned a B.A. in political science from Cal State University, Fullerton, and a Master of Administration from the University of California, Riverside. X @RonTcop
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