Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on fraud: what the evidence says · JRE #2461
SUBJECT: FRAUD
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
We found one hotel. It had 129 rooms, and everyone was a different company that was selling durable medical equipment. And we go in and shut them down, and they immediately go back to Cuba.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Durable medical equipment (DME) fraud against Medicare and Medicaid is a well-documented, long-running problem in South Florida, and federal data support the broader pattern Kennedy describes: CMS reported that medical-supply DME suppliers had a 17% revocation rate (roughly triple other supplier types) and imposed a nationwide moratorium on new DME enrollments in February 2026 after linking these suppliers to more than $1.5 billion in suspected fraudulent billing, and the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown charged 455 defendants in cases involving over $6.5 billion in false claims, including DME schemes. However, no primary government report, court filing, or independent news account identifying this specific 129-room hotel, or corroborating that it (or the broader DME fraud operation) was directly run by the Cuban government as opposed to Cuban nationals or Cuban-American individuals acting independently, the pattern documented in decades of prior enforcement actions, could be located. The claim that this specific fraud scheme was directly "run by the Cuban government" goes beyond what any located public record substantiates, making the anecdote unverified as told even though the general category of DME shell-company fraud tied to operators of Cuban origin in South Florida is well established.