Brett Cooper

He stole from the American taxpayers, and even worse, is the way that people were treated within his nursing homes.

And while the Trump administration is allegedly cracking down on fraud, he gets pardoned.

Let's talk about it.

So the story is, between 2017 and 2018, this man, this gentleman, Joseph Schwartz, he withheld over $38 million in payroll taxes from his employees, but he did not pay them.

He pocketed that money.

He was also over-billing Medicaid for the federal funds that he was receiving for this conglomerate of nursing homes.

And I think that that's important to note just so you guys see the intersection with what he was doing and what the entire conservative movement has been screaming about in regards to the fraud in Minnesota.

It is the same type of fraud.

All of this information was published in a really great article from ProPublica that came out yesterday, hence everything going viral on X yesterday.

And in this article, the author wrote, the collapse was swift, meaning the collapse of Joseph Schwartz's empire.

Skyline Facilities, that's his company,

failed to make payments for food and medical supplies, and cut hours for nursing home staff.

At the same time, Schwartz began to siphon money from multiple sources, overbilling Medicaid and withholding millions of dollars in payroll taxes from workers' paychecks, but never sending the money to the IRS, he admitted later.

What's more, Schwartz paid himself $5 million in what one federal prosecutor described as a ghost employee at some of his facilities.

But I also think it's important to note that this isn't just about defrauding the government.

Because while he was pocketing, you know, those $5 million, his nursing homes were falling apart in front of him and the neglected residents were paying the price.

We are talking about the elderly in our society.

The families who put their loved ones in these facilities expecting them to be taken care of.

Just listen to these stories.

From this article, the author writes, Grissom's son said that Hillview appeared chronically short-staffed.