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Why Did Federal Prosecutors Charge Twelve People Over San Diego Ghost Daycares?
Because more than $10 million meant for low-income working families was billed through licensed homes that officials called ghost daycares. The Justice Department charged twelve naturalized citizens and refugees from Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq who obtained California childcare licenses, registered with subsidy agencies, and submitted fake attendance records for children who were not present. This Scam turned a work-support program into payments for empty rooms.
How Licensed Homes Billed for Children Who Never Arrived
The defendants claimed they were caring for dozens of children. One El Cajon operator reported twenty-three children every day in March and twenty-five every day in April. Federal surveillance covering fifty-seven days recorded children entering or leaving on only one date, the morning a state inspector arrived unannounced. Officials said the children appeared after the inspector was already on site. Other records showed billing while defendants were outside the United States. Cameras contradicted the monthly logs. Each defendant collected between $538,000 and $1.2 million. IRS Criminal Investigation Chief Jarod Koopman said agents found twelve ghost daycare operations billing for children who were never present. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said these were made-up fake daycares with no children.
What the 250-Officer Takedown Established
Last Thursday more than 250 federal, state, and local officers executed twelve search warrants and arrested all twelve defendants in San Diego and El Cajon. All face wire fraud carrying a possible twenty-year prison sentence. U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said the game is over. Attorney General Todd Blanche described the facilities as completely bogus. Officials said the operations were entirely bogus and drained resources from real working families. The National Fraud Enforcement Division supporting President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance, brought the first charges of this type. Citizen journalists had flagged vacant licensed sites months earlier. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who later faced a California law opponents said was written to block similar investigations into government fraud, asked Governor Gavin Newsom: “Hey Gavin Newscam, where were the kids? Good job covering for fraudsters and attacking the person who exposed the fraud. I've exposed and helped save California hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. What have you done for California?” Those visits now sit beside federal complaints and video. The Scam required a state license, a monthly form, and a system that paid on the form. Checking those claims against cameras is how the next Scam of this kind is stopped. A twenty-year wire-fraud count is how this Scam is treated as theft from working parents, which is why this San Diego Scam was charged federally.
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Why Did Federal Prosecutors Charge Twelve People Over San Diego Ghost Daycares?
Because more than $10 million meant for low-income working families was billed through licensed homes that officials called ghost daycares. The Justice Department charged twelve naturalized citizens and refugees from Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq who obtained California childcare licenses, registered with subsidy agencies, and submitted fake attendance records for children who were not present. This Scam turned a work-support program into payments for empty rooms.
