With all the hoopla in Minnesota over defrauded taxpayers, costing the federal government billions, let’s not forget California with its own problems where Unemployment Insurance reportedly lost $30 billion to fraud during COVID and continues to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Electronic Benefit Transfer program of CalFresh and CalWORKS has been losing $251 million annually to fraud while MediCal made $1.9 billion in overpayments to providers. And let’s not forget the high-speed rail to nowhere now estimated to cost up to $128 billion versus the original budget in 2008 of $33 billion. And there’s no end in sight.
The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Meetings will be available when the Supervisors’ meetings are in session. Meetings are usually scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month beginning at 9 am.
