US_ Hilton to Newsmax: $250B Fraud Likely to Be Exposed in Calif. (Sandy Fitzgerald - NEWSMAX)

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Hilton to Newsmax: $250B Fraud Likely to Be Exposed in Calif.

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 14 February 2026 06:53 PM EST


California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton said Saturday that his campaign-aligned watchdog group has identified "hundreds of millions of dollars" in taxpayer fraud in the state and estimated "a total of $250 billion of fraud in California."

"Of course, the worst in the nation, the biggest fraud is going on right here in California," Hilton said on Newsmax's "The Count."

"We're just getting started in California."

Hilton said federal and state-level scrutiny has accelerated in recent months and pointed out that his campaign has launched "Cal DOGE, the California Department of Government Efficiency," to root out fraud. 

"We published our first fraud report," Hilton said.

"We found this just in a matter of days, going through the budget, $370 million stolen from the cannabis tax, which was supposed to be going for substance abuse prevention, actually being siphoned off to Democrat activist causes like voter registration and pushing narratives, as they call it, that help them politically," he said.

"A slush fund for Democrat politics."

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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/steve-hilton-california-fraud/2026/02/14/id/1246192/

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