"Dr." Mohammad Oz (who goes by "Mehmet" instead of his real name "Mohammad" to hide his Islamic affiliation) is a Turkish Islamic denier of the Armenian genocide. He has gone to a corner of California where hundreds of thousands of Armenian immigrants live to hurl insults and accusations of fraud against the entire Armenian community.
For those who don't know, Armenians are Christians while Mohammad Oz is an Islamic man who kisses Trump's ass in between his mandatory daily prayers. Millions of Armenian Christians were slaughtered and deported out of their homeland in the late 19th and early 20th century by Mohammad Oz's fascist Muslim grandparents. His Turkish homeland is no more than the product of a genocidal Great Replacement of the native Armenian and Greek populations by the barbarian Muslim nomads of Central Asia.
Now you know why this Trump asslick expert is savaging the Armenian American community. Hope the members of that community remember this Trump's disgusting move against them next November. Because, before then, Trump might send ICE and CBP to terrorize the Armenian community, just as he is doing with the Somali American community of Minneapolis.
[Updated below with Gavin Newsom's civil rights complaint against Dr. Mohammad Oz]
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Clara Harter, Richard Winton
Fri, January 30, 2026
Dr. Mehmet Oz called Los Angeles County an "epicenter" of healthcare fraud. (@CMSGov)
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday filed a civil rights complaint against Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after Oz posted a video accusing Armenian crime groups of carrying out widespread healthcare fraud in Los Angeles.
The video shows Oz being driven around a section of Van Nuys where he says that about $3.5 billion worth of medicare fraud has been perpetrated by hospice and home care businesses, claiming that "it's run, quite a bit of it, by the Russian Armenian mafia."
At one point in the video, which was posted Tuesday on the agency's official social media accounts, Oz stands in front of a sign for an Armenian bakery and says, "you notice that the lettering and language behind me is of that dialect and it also highlights the fact that this is an organized crime mafia deal."
In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, Newsom called on the agency to investigate "Dr. Oz's baseless and racist allegations against Armenian Americans in California."
"Such racially charged and false public statements by anyone involved in administering these critical federal healthcare programs seriously risks chilling participation in those programs by individuals targeted by the statements," Newsom's office wrote in the complaint.
Movses Bislamyan, the owner of the store whose sign is pictured in the video, told ABC7 News that he saw about a 30% drop in business the day after the viral video was posted.
"I am really disappointed," he told the station. "Recording my signs, my location, and talking about some kind of fraud going on here. We have nothing to do with it."
The video comes as the Trump administration has launched a national effort to highlight allegations of federal funding fraud in Democratic-led states including Minnesota, California and New York.
A day after the video was posted, Newsom issued a statement on X saying that his office was reviewing reports that Oz was targeting the Armenian American community. "Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously," he wrote.
Oz fired back in his own statement on X, saying, "if there were a real defense for California’s fraud crisis, we’d hear it. CMS and law enforcement will keep doing the actual work: going after fraudsters, period."
California has been investigating healthcare fraud since a 2020 Los Angeles Times investigation that uncovered widespread Medicare fraud in the state’s booming but loosely regulated hospice industry. Between 2010 and 2020, the county’s hospices have multiplied sixfold, accounting for more than half of the state’s roughly 1,200 Medicare-certified providers, according to a Times analysis of federal healthcare data.
Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation — an epicenter that sits along Victory Boulevard.
Since 2021 the state Department of Justice has charged 109 people with hospice-related fraud and filed 24 civil suits related to hospice fraud. In the last two years, 280 hospices have been shuttered with their licenses revoked, according to data from the California Department of Public Health, which oversees licensing.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday filed a civil rights complaint against Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, claiming he discriminated against Armenians in Los Angeles County by accusing them of hospice fraud.
The complaint argues that Oz “spewed baseless and racially charged allegations” that put hospices at risk of not receiving patients. Newsom’s office said Oz’s claims “already caused real-world harm” on Armenian businesses.
“Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a popular bakery,” Newsom’s press office wrote Wednesday on the social platform X, prior to filing the complaint.
“Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously,” the press office added. “Any and all acts of hate have no place in California.”
Newsom’s press office mocked Oz on X, twice calling him a “fraud.” One post shared a montage of videos of Oz making various health-related claims, including congressional testimony and claims made when he was a television show host.
A second post shared an AI-generated image of Oz resembling fictional secret agent Austin Powers with the caption, “Sold fake ‘miracle pills’ to dying grandmas.” Newsom’s image appears next to Oz’s with the caption, “BANNED ALL NEW HOSPICES IN 2021 TO STOP FRAUD.”
Newsom’s press office also shared an ABC 7 Los Angeles report about an Armenian bakery in Van Nuys, Calif., whose owner told the outlet that Oz’s video posted Tuesday contributed to a 30 percent decline in business. Newsom called it “disgusting” and added, “Real people get hurt when powerful people spread garbage!”
Oz claims in the video that there is “roughly $3.5 billion of fraud taking place here in LA in hospice and home care.” He pointed to the lettering outside the bakery and said, “It’s run, quite a bit of it, by the Russian Armenian mafia. You notice the lettering and language behind me is of that dialect.”
“I am really disappointed,” Movses Bislamyan, who operates Sherman Way Marketplace, told the local outlet. “Recording my signs, my location, and talking about some kind of fraud going on here. We have nothing to do with it. It has nothing to do whatsoever with the grocery store.”
Bislamyan defended his bakery, telling ABC 7 that there’s “no Armenian mafia going on here. We’re just hard-working businessmen.”
“I don’t understand why he’s mentioning just Armenians … especially Russian Armenians,” he added.
The Trump administration froze more than $10 billion in child care funds to blue states, including California and Minnesota. The president claimed earlier this month that fraud in California is “worse” than the widespread welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota and that an investigation into alleged fraud in the Golden State was underway.
“The president has directed all agencies across the board to look at federal spending programs in not just Minnesota, but also in the state of California to identify fraud and to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all those who have committed it,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously told reporters.
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