Newsom challenges Oz’s Armenian-fraud claims with civil rights complaint

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a civil rights complaint against Dr. Mehmet Oz over a video in which Oz alleged Armenian Americans were behind Medicare fraud in Los Angeles, calling the claims racist and baseless. Oz defended the crackdown on fraud, while critics note California’s ongoing hospice-fraud investigations and the broader political sensitivity around the Armenian community as the controversy unfolds.
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