California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has demanded a civil rights investigation into Dr. Mehmet Oz, alleging he discriminated against Armenians in a video claiming widespread hospice fraud in Los Angeles.
The Democratic governor's complaint, filed on Thursday, came after Dr. Oz posted a social media video filmed outside an Armenian bakery in Los Angeles. In the footage, Dr. Oz, who serves as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, alleged that roughly $3.5 billion in hospice and home care fraud had taken place in the city, with "quite a bit of it" supposedly run by "the Russian Armenian mafia."
