State Financial Officers Foundation

Attorney General of the state, Keith Ellison, confirming one of the businesses as ISCA Incorporated in St. Louis Park, which received more than $16.7 million in Medicaid payments between 2018 and 2025.

Joining me now is State Financial Officers Foundation CEO O.J. Oleka.

Good to see you this morning, O.J. All right, my state, another fraud raid.

I like to see that because I want to see the crackdown, but it also just makes me wonder, are we still just scratching the surface here, or are we really digging into the guts of what's going on with fraud?

The Center Square contributor Tate Rosentretter reports that New York State's budget, it's a quarter of a trillion dollars a year.

And the State Financial Officers Foundation CEO, O.J. Oleka, said that a recent report shows a lack of oversight in how billions of tax dollars are going into the wrong destinations.

Now, is this blatant fraud or is it negligence? Either way, it's taxpayer dollars that aren't going to its intended purpose, something that Open the Books and other spending watchdogs are watching closely.

And with that increased money going to where it's not supposed to be going begs the question for some in New York as to why they are already paying some of the highest taxpayer costs.

So how is President Trump's whistleblower incentive program different from existing ones? And who should be taking part in it? I spoke with Dr.

O.J. Oleka, Chief Financial Officer for the State Financial Officers Foundation.

OJ Oleka,

thank you so much for joining.

But during the Biden era, you saw it increase.

So a lot of it was under our noses because the Biden administration changed the rules to make it smell so bad that effectively the Trump administration came in and now they're getting out the stink from our benefit programs and it's benefiting the American people.

CEO of State Financial Officers Foundation.

Dr. OJ Oleka, thank you so much.

I'm joined by Alan Mendenhall, who is currently at the Heritage Foundation.

He's going to share a little bit about his background here in a second, as well as Steve Soukup, who is at the State Financial Officers Foundation, among other places.

So these guys have worked a lot in this space.

I'm glad to have them on.

In 2021, I wrote a book called The Dictatorship of Low Capital, which sort of served as the tip of the spear in the pushback movement.

for conservatives against the ESG movement and against the politicization of American capital markets.

I am currently the president and publisher of the Political Forum, the scholar in residence at the State Financial Officers Foundation, and a visiting fellow at Heritage Foundation's American Investor Initiative.

Excellent.

That's just an evasion.

But the reason I bring that up here is you posted something on your account from the State Financial Officers Foundation, that the DSA agenda, which is the Democrat socialists, their agenda is 49 trillion in added federal deficits over 10 years, and that's after their wealth tax.

Explain to our audience what this would do to our economy.

Well, it would destroy it.