Yep- the fraud out there is staggering.
Had a couple of Muslim taxi drivers/gas station owners caught not long ago running some massive multi m8llion dollar scam bilking medicaid. They drove welfare peeps to and from appointments, putting in claims for things that they never did. I forget now just how they did it, but it was apparently worth millions.
Read awhile back that a Muslim was operating a “school”, collecting federal and state funds. Only problem was that there was no actual school- they had gotten away with it for awhile.
In California, it is mostly Eastern Europeans who run these scams - they are reported in our local paper ONLY. Once they figure out the feds are after them, they retreat to the “old country” which has no extradition policy with the U.S.
One I remember one involved a sophisticated medicare scam - the scammers had their own doctors, medical supply company, agents, etc., all up and down the food chain, top to bottom. Took the feds two years to figure it all out - after tens of millions of dollars had been stolen from the system. Caught a few, others escaped. I’ve heard same with insurance fraud.
Another one involved an Iranian who leased out at least 20, new, high-end cars “for his business” - he sold all of the cars and then fled to Iran with the cash. Good luck bringing that guy to justice.