STREET REPORT 1: New California’s CEO, Chriss Street Requests Shasta County Grand Jury Investigation into Potential Shasta County MediCal and CalFresh Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
Could Implicate County Supervisors and Staff Throughout California’s 58 Counties.
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By Chriss Street
Chriss W. Street First Report:
April 12, 2023
As the finalist for the Shasta County Chief Executive Office position, Chriss W. Street became aware of what appears to potentially be a multi-million scheme of fraud waste and abuse of MediCal and CalFresh programs involving Shasta County executives and members of the Shasta County Mental Health, Alcohol & Drug Advisory Board.
Shasta County as a rural county annually receives federal government and California State public revenues and grants to fund about one thousand (1,000) public sector workers to provide safety-net and healthcare benefits administration and services.
Shasta County is potentially engaged in an organized two-step scheme that involves paying sub-market wages and creating abusive working conditions for the lowest paid Shasta County workers. As a direct and proximate result of the scheme, Shasta County claims to be unable to maintain state and federal funded staffing levels for its lowest-paid workers. The multi-million dollars of unspent cash appears to have then been up-streamed to pay excessive high compensation to Shasta County executives and others.
By paying workers sub-market compensation as low as $16 per hour and providing abusive working conditions, Shasta County net of quits and hires appears to have continuously averaged about 300 (three-hundred) vacant full-time-equivalent positions mostly funded by federal government and California State revenues and grants.
By paying workers sub-market compensation as low as $16 per hour and providing abusive working conditions, Shasta County net of quits and hires appears to have continuously averaged about 300 (three-hundred) vacant full-time-equivalent positions mostly funded by federal government and California State revenues and grants.
At a conservative low-paid worker average for wages and benefits of $41,000; multiplied crimes an average of 300 vacant positions mostly funded by federal government and California State revenues and grants, Shasta County appears to have annually avoided paying at least $12.3 million (twelve point three million dollars) of worker compensation.
Chriss Street is requesting the Shasta County Grand Jury investigate these issues.
1 https://www.counties.org/pod/california-county-caucuses
2 https://www.credittoday.net/public/1585.cfm
3 https://www.shastacounty.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/
auditorcontroller/page/2643/2022_shasta_county_final_acfr.pdf
