Governor Kathy Hochul’s campaign received $55,000 from social adult daycare centers in Flushing, the New York City neighborhood where Nick Shirley investigated alleged fraud. This month, the New York Post reviewed donation records, visited the two largest donors, and found both centers empty of patients during business hours. Nick had found the same situation there about a month earlier.
There are nearly 400 of these centers in New York City, but only nine donated more than $5,000 to Hochul’s first campaign for governor in 2022. Those nine centers billed Medicaid about $49 million that year. In July, Nick’s investigation described Flushing as a place where billing no longer matched the population it was meant to serve. The Post’s donor list comes from this same small group of operators.
Nearly half of the donations came from two men. Baoli Zhang, gave $10,000 himself and another $5,000 through his business, Bao Kang Adult Day Care, according to financial records reviewed by the Post. Since 2018, Zhang’s businesses have claimed at least $32 million from Medicaid for tens of thousands of listed patients. He also owns Confucius Social Daycare Center in Manhattan’s Chinatown, which billed $15.7 million during the same time.
The other major donor is Jiemin Shang, who runs Livingwell Day Care. Livingwell gave Hochul $5,000 in 2022 and billed Medicaid $5.8 million that year. Another $5,000 donation came from Finest Adult Day Care, which Shang also manages. Livingwell’s Medicaid billing grew from $114,000 in 2018 to $8.05 million by 2024. Bao Kang’s billing rose from $1.5 million to $7.22 million in the same period. Overall, monthly daycare revenue in Flushing has almost doubled since before the pandemic.
At Bao Kang, a worker told Post reporters the center serves between one hundred and two hundred people each day, but then checked a security monitor and saw the common areas were empty. In July, a staff member at another Flushing center told Nick on camera that the thousands of names on its records were not actually present in the building. None of the centers mentioned in the Post’s report have been charged with a crime.
An industry source told the Post that these centers were struggling during COVID until someone helped them out, describing the situation as “Take care of me, I’ll take care of you.” This is just one anonymous person’s opinion about why the donations began, not a proven fact. There is no public evidence that Hochul or her campaign gave anything in return. Political donations from business owners are legal. The Post’s reporting shows that the centers donating to the governor are the same ones billing Medicaid at levels their facilities cannot explain.
Federal prosecutors have been investigating this type of spending throughout the summer. On August 4, the Justice Department’s Fraud Division charged 19 people in Medicaid home care schemes and expanded its Northeast Health Care Fraud Strike Force. The department links this work to the fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, who visited Flushing with Nick in July, said in the announcement that the agency is creating safeguards to spot criminal activity before any money is paid out.
15 comments:
If the NY Post said the it's sunny outside, I'd get an umbrella.
The corruption is off the charts. I was hoping Team Taco would put a stop to this. Instead he's lining his own pockets and staring reckless wars to appease his boss, Netanyahu.
The next time I'm driving out on route 80, I'll stop at that T.A commie truck stop and pay a lot more for gasoline, thanks to Israel and team Taco.
Has anybody told Trump that the US got beaten really bad by a third world desert empire run by Jihadi Mullahs.
Now we have congestion pricing on the Strait of Taco too.
Small potatoes. Trump gets a few million every week to add to his bank account. Taylor farms paid him to ignore their contaminated lettuce. Larry Ellison, Miriam Adelson and the Israel firsters giving him a few hundred million dollars to start reckless wars. Are their kids going to fight it?
Who put the PDF in the White House? Was it that T.A commie ?
I stand with Blakeman. The sooner he builds that wall to keep Nassau county riff raff out of Queens, the better.
And he promised to arrest the PDFile too, even if he's campaigning for him.
As scams go, this is a drop in the ocean compared to the trillions scammed from taxpayers by the Pentagon and defense contractors.
It's a drop in the ocean compared to billions sent to arm Israel and the IDF terrorists.
It's a drop in the ocean compared to US funded free healthcare and education for Israeli citizens(of the correct religion only, of course).
Hey team TACO and the Epstein class are watching you every day. Check this site to see how many of these Flock and Flock style cameras are in your neighborhood. https://maps.deflock.org
Queens has a lot of them. Maspeth, near the Home Depo, near the Police repair shops and along the Horace Harding expressway has more.
Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside has more.
These aren't red light or speed monitors. They have facial recognition and licence plate readers.
Don't let Team Taco away with this Communist China style tactics.
Hochuls Pochuls is done for.
Blakeman is a Rockefeller lefty just like Trump. My polar dog thrives at 10F but he makes us keep him inside. Whole lot of statists. It behooves the rest of the country for New York to sink to hell. Urban Vermin cohabit with roaches and rodents in mausoleums so they can party with pinkos and queers. The soviets never targeted New York because all their supporters lived here. A few nukes over New York would cure most diseases, especially liberalism.
"Hochuls Pochuls", LOL, comment of the week. You can take the rest of the year off.
That T.A commie is ruining this site.
That's a lot of cabbage.
I see he's got a new concubine.
I stand with Blakeman too. There's noting worse than PDF's and Blakeman is going to smoke them out. Even if they are in the White House.
He'll get that T.A commie too.
Take a hike, commie.
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