FBI Arrests 11 in California Accused of Hospice Fraud Totaling $50 Million
It’s odd when a hospice center has a 97% survival rate because people usually enter hospice at the end of a terminal illness.
The FBI, with the Health and Human Services (HHS), raided the home of Amelou Gill and Gladwin Gill, a doctor and a nurse, in Southern California over accusations that they committed $7 million in hospice fraud.
According to J.D. Vance, the FBI conducted additional raids in the area. In total, they nabbed people who allegedly stole over $50 million.
Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud.
This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems.
Thanks to @DrOzCMS and @USAttyEssayli for their work. https://t.co/6rT6rm38rL
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 2, 2026
🚨 Early this morning, the FBI and our partners executed multiple raids near Los Angeles, California as part of a fraud takedown “Operation Never Say Die” – targeting 11 individuals who allegedly engaged in massive fraud of taxpayer funded healthcare systems.
The fraud totals at… pic.twitter.com/mGbGuC8MPY
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 2, 2026
The agents had to saw through metal gates to enter the property.
St. Francis Palliative Care in Anaheim, which the Gills operate, has a 2.3% mortality rate over the last five years.
It’s odd when a hospice center has a 97% survival rate because people usually enter hospice at the end of a terminal illness.
The Fox News report said the accusations claim the Gills are not qualified to receive people for hospice care. They allegedly charged $30,000 a patient.
“They’ve been bilking the taxpayers for over seven million dollars, close to eight million dollars, and it’s total fraudulent hospice services,” Bill Essayli, United States Attorney for the Central District of California, told Fox News. “They were signing up people who are not terminally ill, they were forging the documents, the medical records, and they were collecting taxpayer dollars. And they’ve been charged, and this morning, they were arrested.”
Last week, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into hospice fraud in California.
The investigation opened after CBS News and Nick Shirley blew the lid off a week before.
CBS News discovered that 700 of the 1800 hospices in Los Angeles County raised red flags with the state auditors.
It’s been going on for years:
In 2022, California’s state auditor sounded the alarm as LA County saw a 1,500% increase in hospice companies since 2010.
In a letter to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators dated March 29, 2022, the California state auditor flagged that there had been “a rapid increase in the number of hospice agencies with no clear correlation to increased need.”
Shirley discovered that two facilities charged $6,000 per person.
Another hospice received $1.3 million. Shirley found the location empty. No employees. No equipment. No furniture.
Let’s not forget the massive fraud coming out of Minnesota.
These allegations led to President Donald Trump establishing an anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.
“So what this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things: stop the fraud in the American taxpayer and make sure that the benefits that ought, by right, go to American citizens, go to American citizens, and not to fraudsters,” Vance said at the signing.
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Its time to cut government funding g of social programs and get back to funding only infrastructure project you can see get built (or not) and if not, break out the tar and feathers. We have now become so acclimated to the government teat that we cant wean ourselves away from it.
Modern liberalism is a criminal enterprise.
Incompetent Commiefornia governor, Newsolini, was unavailable for comment, as he was busy securing an exclusive supply of petroleum distillates from Marathon Petroleum’s last refinery in the state, to ensure that his coiffure is perennially sufficiently greasy.
Good news — Weasel Grease is not a valuable petrochemical.
Depends where you use it. Diddy and Noisome have come up with some unique applications….
Arrests! Gasp!
How long do we have until the corrupt judge releases them?
Probably will get a Leftist Judge and give them a year at most in prison, then they get out and live the easy street live with tens of millions squared away.
Did the word “restitution” get replaced with “reparations?”
Good start. I suspect there’s far more targets for prosecution and many will be pretty easy to find, arrest and prosecute. These fraud operations are kinda sloppy once the pieces get put together b/c to do it at scale leaves a trail. Unfortunately our political class was uninterested in seeing the fraud in front of them before now. The good news is putting Vance in charge gives him a vehicle to use for a potential Presidential campaign so he has every incentive to make hay while he can.
A. Gill and G. Gill have been accused of committing 7 million dollars in hospice fraud. The hospice the Gills operate has a 2.3% mortality rate.
“Instead of arresting us”, the Gills said, “we should be given a medal. Our hospice has a 97% survival rate. Isn’t that good news?”
Not if the patients were ghosts to begin with…
“It’s odd when a hospice center has a 97% survival rate because people usually enter hospice at the end of a terminal illness.”
You underestimate the experience Democrats have in keeping dead people alive.
Tip of the iceberg in California fraud. Now do learing centers, autism centers, housing scams, homeless scams, soup kitchens etc. If a Republican is elected and starts digging into and exposing the fraud that has been going on for years many people in government will be indicted and Newsome’s presidential ambitions will grind to a halt.
$50 Million in California, and how many Billions in Minnesota ? As a country, we must address the frauds that are costing us so much financially, which are primarily concentrated in blue states. Investigate them !