Federal prosecutors in California are intensifying their efforts to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in state-administered public programs, with the high-profile guilty plea of career fraudster Paul Richard Randall serving as a stark example. In a Fox Business interview aired this week, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California directly linked the case to broader ongoing investigations.

In a jaw-dropping display of big-government panic, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has sunk to openly begging the wealthy residents she once drove out of the state to please come back from Florida. Not because she suddenly cares about their success or the American Dream — but because she desperately needs their tax dollars to keep funding New York’s unsustainable “generous social programs.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has emerged as one of the nation's most aggressive defenders of undocumented immigrants, using the power of his office—and millions in taxpayer dollars—to shield non-citizens from federal enforcement while ensuring their access to state and federal benefits funded largely by California residents. Since taking office in 2021 and winning election in 2022, Bonta has filed dozens of lawsuits against the federal government, with a sharp escal