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加州、缅因州和俄亥俄州是SFOF首席执行官OJ·奥莱卡所说的领导人未能打击欺诈的部分州
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SFOF主席O.J.奥莱卡谈铲除“欺诈产业综合体”
州金融官员基金会主席O.J.奥莱卡做客福克斯新闻数字频道，探讨因欺诈损失的60亿美元纳税人资金，以及各州财政部长如何带头为美国民众追回数十亿美元。
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随着普遍存在的欺诈计划持续席卷美国，一个致力于在州一级维护经济自由的组织表示，前总统乔·拜登的政策是这一问题泛滥的主要推手。
州金融官员基金会首席执行官OJ·奥莱卡表示，上一届政府任期内的“放松管控”为大规模欺诈和纳税人资金滥用打开了大门。如今各州财政官员正带头加强监管，为美国民众追回资金。
“这不是党派声明，但有一个事实是，这类欺诈在拜登政府期间呈爆发式增长，”奥莱卡告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“很多管控措施都被取消了。许多秉持‘大政府更好’理念的州直接打开了资金闸门，允许任何人获取任何福利。”
在佛罗里达州克利尔沃特举行的SFOF年度会议上，奥莱卡表示，欺诈已深深嵌入政府项目之中，如今已成为“系统的固有特征，而非漏洞”。
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SFOF2025年首份监督报告显示，其附属的州金融官员去年为纳税人保护并追回了280亿美元资金，发现了57亿美元的浪费、欺诈和滥用行为。与此同时，他们通过投资收益和无人认领财产项目又创造或追回了223亿美元。
“我们说过，欺诈在美国实际上已经形成了一个产业，”奥莱卡说。“我们要做的就是铲除政府项目中存在的欺诈产业综合体。这是最大的挑战。”
他指出，拜登执政期间 eligibility 要求薄弱——有时甚至完全没有要求——导致欺诈案例激增。
“随后几乎任何人都能获得福利——那些不需要福利的人，那些不配获得福利的人，甚至那些根本没有资格获得福利的人，”他 lamented（此处保留原文语境，译为“哀叹道”）。
今年，唐纳德·特朗普总统任命副总统JD·万斯领导全国性的“反欺诈战争”。这一举措源于备受关注的明尼苏达州“喂养我们的未来”计划，该计划据称从政府骗取了数亿美元。
奥莱卡赞扬了特朗普政府的反欺诈努力，并在2月致白宫的一封信中告诉万斯，SFOF成员是“早已在战场上的盟友”，随时准备协助保护纳税人资金。
“如今令人欣慰的是，副总统、专项工作组以及我们的州金融官员都在努力铲除这些问题，”他说。“我们的目标是：从根源上铲除这些问题，阻止其在系统中滋生，让福利体系再次真正为美国民众服务。”
但他表示，如果美国民众希望看到持久的改变，未来的政府需要持续加大打击力度。
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奥莱卡表示，SFOF还与包括众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党人詹姆斯·科默在内的国会议员以及州官员合作，确保在特朗普政府之后仍能解决欺诈问题。
他还希望通过行政命令巩固部分改革措施。
“当前的系统允许你为所欲为，但这显然不道德，显然是错误的，而这类情况在拜登时代确实大幅增加，”奥莱卡说。
近期加州、缅因州和俄亥俄州曝光了大规模欺诈案件，他表示，这些州的民主党领导人未能采取行动，因为他们“没有政治意愿制止欺诈”。
加州揭露了一个数百万美元的临终关怀欺诈计划，而缅因州一家医疗服务公司去年12月被举报人指控滥用数百万美元的医疗补助资金。在俄亥俄州哥伦布市，数百家用同一地址、在空置或维护极差的房产中运营的家庭健康公司被发现向联邦政府申报了超过2.5亿美元的医疗补助支出。
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(OJ Oleka for Fox News Digital)
“我们在明尼苏达州看到了这种情况，在加州、缅因州和俄亥俄州看到了这种情况，全国各地都有，”奥莱卡说。“但你也看到了州金融官员们站出来为美国民众发声。你也看到了科默主席站出来为美国民众发声。你还看到了副总统、专项工作组以及美国总统站出来为美国民众发声。”
他坚称，纳税人不应为欺诈买单。
“当一个系统把纳税人的钱分给那些不配获得、也不需要这些钱的人时，美国民众得不到任何好处，”他说。
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奥莱卡认为，打击欺诈与降低美国民众的生活成本相辅相成。
“我们的成员不仅讨论了欺诈问题，还谈到了他们如何能够带头为美国民众争取更低的生活成本，”他说。“因此，本次会议的基调充满希望。”
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Fraudsters abused Biden’s lax policies to steal billions, financial watchdog claims
May 23, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News
California, Maine and Ohio are some of the states where SFOF CEO OJ Oleka says leaders failed to combat fraud
Andrew Mark Miller By Andrew Mark Miller, Kiera McDonald
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SFOF President O.J. Oleka on rooting out the ‘fraud industrial complex’
State Financial Officers Foundation President O.J. Oleka joins Fox News Digital to discuss the $6 billion in taxpayer funds lost to fraud and how state treasurers are leading the fight to reclaim billions for the American people.
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As pervasive fraud schemes continue to sweep across the U.S., a group that seeks to preserve economic freedoms at the state level says that former President Joe Biden’s policies were a main driver for the proliferation of the issue.
OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, said “relaxed controls” during the last administration opened the door to widespread fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars. And state treasurers are now leading the fight to strengthen oversight and reclaim funds for the American people.
“This isn’t a partisan statement, but it is a true statement to say that this kind of exploded during the Biden administration,” Oleka told Fox News Digital. “A lot of the controls were turned off. A lot of states who have the philosophy that ‘more government is good’ just simply turned on the spigots and allowed anybody to get access to any benefit.”
Speaking from SFOF’s annual conference in Clearwater, Florida, Oleka said fraud has become so deeply embedded in government programs that it’s now “a feature in the system, not a bug.”
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Former President Joe Biden speaks to a crowd during a fundraising event with the South Carolina Democratic Party at the Columbia Museum of Art on Feb. 27, 2026 in Columbia, S.C.(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
SFOF’s first-ever Oversight Report for 2025 found that affiliated state financial officers protected and returned $28 billion to taxpayers last year, uncovering $5.7 billion in waste, fraud and abuse. They, meanwhile, generated or returned another $22.3 billion through investment earnings and unclaimed property programs.
“We say that fraud actually has an industry in this country,” Oleka said. “What we’re trying to do is root out the fraud industrial complex that exists within our government programs. That’s the biggest challenge.”
He pointed to weak eligibility requirements during Biden’s time in office — and sometimes no requirements at all — exploding the instances of fraud.
“Then practically anybody can have access to the benefits — people who don’t need them, people who don’t deserve them, people who aren’t even eligible for them,” he lamented.
President Donald Trump this year tapped Vice President JD Vance to lead a nationwide “War on Fraud.” It stemmed from the highly scrutinized Minnesota “Feeding Our Future” scheme, which allegedly defrauded the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Oleka praised the Trump administration’s anti-fraud efforts, and in a February letter to the White House told Vance that SFOF members are “allies already on the battlefield” ready to help protect taxpayer dollars.
“The beauty of what’s happening now is you’ve got the Vice President and the task force and our state financial officers rooting to get this stuff out,” he said. “That’s the goal: you get it out root and branch, you stop it from being in the system, and you make a benefit system that actually works again for the American people.”
But, he said, future administrations need to continue the crack-down if Americans want to see lasting change.
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Democratic Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a news conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 6, 2026.(Alex Kormann/Star Tribune)
The SFOF is also working directly with members of Congress, including House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.,and state officials to ensure fraud is addressed beyond the Trump administration, according to Oleka.
He also would like to see some of the changes cemented through executive order.
“You’ve got a system that is allowing you to do the things that you’re doing, but it’s clearly unethical, it’s clearly wrong, and you saw a lot of this actually take off during the Biden-era,” Oleka said.
Massive fraud was recently exposed in California, Maine and Ohio, where he said Democratic leaders failed to act because they “don’t have the political will to stop the fraud.”
A multi-million dollar hospice fraud scheme in California was uncovered, while a Maine health services company was accused by a whistleblower of misusing millions in Medicaid funds in December. In Columbus, Ohio, hundreds of home health companies that shared the same addresses and operated out of vacant or poorly maintained properties were found to have billed the federal government more than $250 million in Medicaid spending.
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(OJ Oleka for Fox News Digital)
“We’ve seen it in Minnesota, we’ve seen it in California, Maine and Ohio, all across the country,” Oleka said. “But what you also see are state financial officers who are standing up for the American people. What you also see is Chairman Comer standing up for the American people. You also see the Vice President and the task force and the President of the United States standing up for the American people.”
He insisted that taxpayers should not be on the hook to foot the bill for fraud.
“The American people do not benefit when there is a system that’s giving out their money to people who don’t deserve it and who don’t need it,” he said.
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Oleka argued that the push to end fraud goes hand-in-hand with lowering costs for Americans.
“Our folks not only talked about fraud, but also about how they can help lead the fight to make things more affordable for the American people,” he said. “As a result, the tone of the conference was hopeful.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s office for comment.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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