WOODLAND, CA – Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, a longtime elected prosecutor known for his tough-on-crime stance, took to X (formerly Twitter) on November 2 to claim that California’s public assistance system has become “completely corrupted,” citing what he described as widespread fraud and weakened enforcement across state departments.
“It’s a fact that California has massive amounts of public assistance fraud,” Reisig wrote in the post. “As a long time elected DA near Sacramento, I’ve personally witnessed the deconstruction of meaningful law enforcement oversight of the departments that hand out billions of dollars in benefits.”
Reisig alleged that state leaders and senior administrators have dismantled anti-fraud efforts, “cut funding and staff for fraud investigations and even changed laws or policies to make it easier for people to steal thousands of dollars without any criminal consequence.” He added that “the budgets of those departments handing out assistance, staffed with union workers, swelled as the amount of money moving through exploded.”…