California man arrested for allegedly stealing millions in homeless funds

California officials person arrested a antheral who allegedly utilized tens-of-millions of payer dollars meant to location and provender the stateless to money his lavish lifestyle, Fox News has learned.

Law enforcement took the antheral into custody successful a pre-dawn bust astatine his multi-million-dollar mansion successful Los Angeles. Federal authorities, who assertion the antheral utilized the funds to marque improvements connected his luxury home, aboriginal arrived to tow his Range Rover.

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Tents of stateless radical are seen connected a sidewalk amid rainfall connected Jan. 3, 2026 successful Los Angeles, Calif. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

The bust comes aft autarkic writer Nick Shirley, who worked to exposure the fraud ungraded successful Minnesota, told Congress that the fraud successful California could beryllium "worse" than what helium recovered successful the North Star State. Shirley made the remark successful effect to a question posed by Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., astir whether his authorities was showing akin signs of fraud to what was seen successful Minnesota.

"Fraud successful California mightiness beryllium adjacent worse than the fraud successful Minnesota," Shirley said. When asked to elaborate, helium noted the missing $24 cardinal successful stateless funds, arsenic good arsenic assorted different projects and issues that, successful his opinion, look to awesome fraud.

Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a property league astir 'New Funding for Homelessness and Mental Health Efforts' and criticized President Trump that ICE agents question implicit immigrants and citizens', successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Jan. 16, 2026.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Earlier this month, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli dubbed Gov. Gavin Newsom the "king of fraud."

"California has spent $24 cardinal successful the past 5 years connected homelessness, and nary 1 tin relationship for wherever that wealth has truly gone," Essayli told "Fox & Friends" earlier this month.

Richard Lopez, left, a Help of Southern Nevada Homeless Response Team lead, Rayvonte Toliver, center, and Zabrena Quinn, some of a Help of Southern Nevada outreach workers, cheque retired stateless encampment astatine Mountain Vista Street and Russel Road wash, connected Tuesday, July 9, 2024, successful Las Vegas.  (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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In April, Essayli launched a task unit to analyse corruption successful California, with a absorption connected stateless services. The task unit has already resulted successful national charges against 2 men accused of utilizing existent property projects to exploit the state’s homelessness strategy for idiosyncratic profit.

Essayli said those cases, which impact millions of dollars successful alleged fraud, are lone the "tip of the iceberg."