We have found the Democrats’ evil king. After millions and maybe even billions spent from Neville Roy Singham’s pocket and a handful of Saturday protests in search of the “king” to guillotine, French Revolution style, we have found the man who has been crowned the “King of Fraud.”
Take a bow, Gavin Newsom.
Welcome to your weekly West Coast, Messed Coast™ update, where this week the feds pulled the card, as we used to say, of Gov. Gavin Newsom. He was found wanting. And he was really quite cranky about it.
Golden Sombrero for the ‘King of Fraud’
On Thursday, the man whom the Senate has still failed to confirm as U.S. Attorney, Bill Essayli (great job, John Thune), announced a series of busts of alleged hospice care fraudsters. One of the alleged bad hombres was a woman who ran a scam from prison, where she was already serving time for… fraud.
The U.S. Attorney who just busted the hospice care fraudsters declared California is the “Kingdom of Fraud” and crowned Gavin Newsom king of it all.
An estimated $146 BILLION has been lost to fraud in California Medicaid spending and related programs since Gavin Newsom took office in 2019. According to independent investigator Chris Rufo, Newsom has lost 25% of California’s Medicaid budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings.
At a presser on Thursday announcing the arrest of eight alleged fraudsters for stealing more than $50 million, Essayli declared that, “This is not just a fraud problem; this is a California problem. I want to be very frank about this.”
Geez, no wonder the guy can’t get confirmed by the Senate — he speaks the truth.
But Essayli was just getting started.
“I call California the ‘Kingdom of Fraud,'” he said. “If you look at the EDD fraud, the SNAP benefits fraud, the hospice fraud, the homeless fraud… one thing is in common: No vetting. No checking. Money goes out the door with no questions asked. No receipts. No checking up on them.”
To recap, Gavin Newsom has presided as king over these colossal rip-offs of American and California taxpayers:
- Covid-era EDD (employment) fraud
- SNAP rip-offs
- Hospice fraud
- Homeless fraud
In baseball, they call such a disaster a Golden Sombrero. In politics, they run for president.
Essayli, who was flanked by the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the FBI, and assorted other law enforcement outlets, said that Newsom hasn’t even bothered to fix oversight of these programs as demanded by California state auditors.
Petulant Gavin wasn’t happy that Essayli also noted that Newsom had rolled up 280 fraudsters over his years in office, while the feds had done more in a month. Newsom blamed Trump, of course, saying the administration was “home to the biggest fraudsters on Earth,” and took issue with blaming him for an “issue with THEIR federal programs.” Of course, as Essayli explained, the “purse is the feds'” but the state runs the program.
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— Reeds (@ScarletReeds) April 2, 2026
There seems to be a very laissez-faire attitude about spending other people’s money on their mismanagement.
“The federal government is the purse. All the money comes from the federal government. But it is administered through the states,” explained Essayli. “California is responsible for issuing hospice licenses. They’re responsible for regulating doctors and nurses. And the problem that you see in California is that there is no vetting. There is no checking. They do not care because it is not their money, is the way the state of California looks at it.”
There should be a Margaret Thatcher corollary: Eventually, you run out of voters’ good nature, too.
Ew: West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Yeah, Don’t Cold Plunge Barefoot in Seattle
Head pats all around
While California has chased more than $1 trillion of capital out of the state with its serious discussion of Silicon Valley-area Rep. Ro Khanna and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s “billionaire tax” proposal, Washington state is now saddled with a “millionaire” tax that’s really an unconstitutional income tax. Gov. Bob Ferguson, who used to be attorney general and knows it’s unconstitutional, signed it into law.
So far, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Howard Schultz of Starbucks have left — Schultz after the millionaire tax income tax was passed. Others have left, too. Zach Abraham, the principal and CIO of Bulwark Capital Management, which has $1.1 billion under management, told The Jason Rantz Show he had to leave.
“I don’t feel that I have a choice,” Abraham said. “The other part of it, Jason, is what I’m kind of referring to now, is legislative infidelity, meaning you’ve broken the law, the contract that we both agreed to, the state constitution. How can I trust anything? And my business is, far and away, my largest asset, right? How do I leave that asset here in a state that breaks the contract that we all agree to live by, and then just says, ‘No, you can just stay here and just keep paying us. There’s nothing else to worry about. You know, we’ll never stick it to you in a worse way.’ And you’re going, ‘I don’t believe you.’”
The mayor of Lake Stevens, Wash., also announced he was leaving to “find a little freedom.”
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This pretend “millionaires” tax — combined household earnings of a $1 million count — and the recent capital gains tax have combined to chase out more Washingtonians than in years past.
Great job, Democrats.
Leaving
LA County saw the largest decline in population of any county in the country. The county lost 54,000 people over the last year.
Gee, wonder why.
String him up
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson also signed a bill into law to take over who can be sheriffs in the state. They must pass muster of a statewide panel of non-elected, hand-chosen wokesters who have veto authority over the voters.
Sign up for your concealed carry while you can, folks.
King of Fraud, Part Deux
Pay up, Gavin. The state is ordered to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees for losing the lawsuit over the state law allowing school employees to lie to parents about trans conversions of their children.
🚨 BREAKING: A federal court has ordered California to pay $4.52 MILLION in attorneys’ fees in Mirabelli v. Bonta—our landmark parental rights case challenging California’s policy of concealing children’s gender transitions from their parents.
Full details, court order, and… pic.twitter.com/SFaJS7WtKh
— Thomas More Society (@ThomasMoreSoc) March 31, 2026
There they go: West Coast, Messed Coast™ — And Then the Facebook Guy Fled California With His Zuck-Buck Billions
They haven’t ruined everything — yet
Sheep keep the weeds down in the vineyards of Dundee, Ore.
Baaa.
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