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I felt quite sad watching it. Alarming that no one immediately took him to the hospital. There are now stories he has been falling repeatedly, and it's clear he hasn't recovered from his prior injury. A lot of people thought it was a TIA, but some do think it's something related to his concussion and signs of worsening brain injury that should be treated immediately. I was reminded of the day my father had an episode and collapsed. He'd go to what I'd call "the far away place". He was childlike, non-responsive to gibberish, lost control of bodily function, frozen in place. Like he was lost in dementia. We thought for sure he was having a stroke again, turns out he was 'lucky'. He was having hypoglycemia. Has absolutely no memory of it. I wonder if Mitch is diabetic. At any rate, he is not well.

I'm not sure what a Congressman could do in this scenario. All relevant authorities know this is happening (FBI, DOJ, OIG, DHHS, and the states attorney) as well as AARP and investigative reporters, but it's alarming that they do not seem to know where such a mass amount of numbers were compromised from. I was two hours on hold last night waiting to speak to an investigator and I was told to not be surprised if I find more fraudulent charges and packages.

Found more fraudulent charges to Medicare this week. They were backdated to last year. Another follow-up call to the OIG and I can tell you Medicare investigators are completely swamped with calls "is this about the test kit thing? we know.. we're so sorry". Another officer told me "it's exhausting". I provided what info I could, after doing more digging. This time it was four more LLCs, all registered to the same person. Addresses and phone numbers are bogus. One I could see has been doing this for some time, and is connected to another organization called the Center for Covid Control, which had hundreds of locations all running scams across the US, and got raided by the FBI. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/13/chicago-lab-indicted-covid-19-testing-scheme/11467937002/ At $200 per claim they are making, imagine the millions they are raking in. Still, I'd like to know what system was compromised. We know back in 2022 a contractor for CMS had their systems breached by crypto hackers, resulting in 254,000 Medicare recipient's info stolen. This seems like considerably more than that though.

There's a couple reasons why I'm sharing this story. You see, I've been down the rabbit hole these past few weeks, when a relative received a mysterious package they didn't order in the mail. Inside were very expired, very tampered looking COVID test kits. I was very alarmed, so me and a few tech buddies got together and did some digging as to just who these scumbags were. Turns out the feds have been working cases like this for a while now. It's not always immediately noticeable to an individual that has Medicare if they have been/their plan has been charged for fraudulent devices. I immediately set to work tracing back months of Medicare billing to see if I could find the fraudulent charges. Not so, because a lot of EOBs and lists of charges are usually running several months behind. A call over to the OIG and federal Medicare fraud investigators, and they could see the charges from back in May, the exact timeframe when many of these packages started showing up over the US. They immediately flagged and created a case file, and unfortunately my relative's info has been compromised (the government is still investigating where and cannot comment yet) and they will have to issue them new cards/numbers. If you have any elderly relatives, or are a recipient of Medicare yourself be on the lookout for any unusual charges and or packages coming to your house. There are extensive news articles online addressing these instances from different states. I must stress in some cases many of these scams are using phishing or phone calls into tricking individuals into giving them their info - but this is a somewhat new tactic, the recipient of the fraudulent goods is unaware of anything coming to their home and never requested it.