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Dani Anguiano and agencies

Newsom fights back after Dr Oz accuses LA’s Armenians of healthcare fraud

a man in a suit looks off to the side
Mehmet Oz at the White House on Thursday. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/Pool/Aaron Schwartz - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock

Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official Dr Mehmet Oz of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud. The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the California governor’s announcement.

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