He Amplified a Video Whose Own Host Says Both 'Korean and Chinese Mafias' and 'Nothing to Do With' Them

Government Transparency / Healthcare Source: Facebook Post (share of third-party content) MISSING CONTEXT

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Why this matters

This is not a claim Langworthy made himself — it is content he amplified. He shared a viral video by independent creator Nick Shirley with the caption “New York should take him up on his offer to help uncover fraud, waste, and abuse,” without repeating Shirley’s specific dollar figure. That distinction matters for how this entry is framed: the underlying problem Shirley is pointing at is real and independently confirmed by federal and state investigators — but at a different, lower, and specifically documented dollar amount than the number in the video he boosted, and with a framing federal and state investigators did not use.

Statement

Source: Facebook, July 14, 2026, 8:55 AM — Rep. Langworthy sharing a post by Nick Shirley (posted July 11, 2026)

“New York should take him up on his offer to help uncover fraud, waste, and abuse.”

The shared video’s written description (Nick Shirley, with CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz) reads — note this is the post’s caption text, not words spoken in the video (see Fact #3):

“we uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters use the elderly and needy to commit fraud through adult and personal home care scams in NYC… Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give $ kickbacks to those who enroll.”

The Facts

1. Large-scale fraud in exactly this space is real and government-confirmed — at $120 million, not $190 million. The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a complaint in Brooklyn charging two Flushing, Queens men — Inwoo Kim (“Tony Kim”) and Daniel Lee — with operating a kickback scheme through a pharmacy and two social adult day cares (Royal Adult Daycare and Happy Life Inc.) between 2016 and 2026. DOJ, HHS-OIG, the FBI, and IRS Criminal Investigation jointly describe the confirmed loss as approximately $120 million paid by Medicare and Medicaid for prescriptions and day-care services. New York’s Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) published this same $120 million case and figure; neither the DOJ complaint nor OMIG’s writeup uses the $190 million figure, and neither mentions Shirley or Oz.

2. A separate, larger state audit finding exists — but it’s a different kind of number. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s February 2026 audit of social adult day care oversight found $285 million in Medicaid payments made to programs after they had been terminated from managed-care networks — a finding about lax post-termination billing controls, which the Comptroller calls “questionable,” not a confirmed fraud figure. The same audit separately documented $672,147 in unsupported claims at three facilities and a Queens facility that billed for 530 people in a single day against a legal capacity of 323. Neither this $285M figure nor the $120M DOJ figure adds up to $190 million; $190 million does not match any government audit or prosecution total found in the public record.

3. The $190 million figure traces to Shirley’s own investigation, not a government source — and is never actually stated in the video itself. The original video (Nick Shirley’s own channel, “I Investigated NYC Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme,” published July 10, 2026; 532K+ views) is the source — its own written description reads “we uncovered over $190,000,000 in fraud.” This site obtained the video’s full spoken transcript directly (via YouTube’s own auto-generated captions, pulled programmatically) and searched it: the figure “$190” does not appear anywhere in the video’s 53 minutes of narration. Shirley cites individual daycare-by-daycare dollar figures on camera (e.g., $12.9M, $9.4M, $8.6M, $7.6M, $5.5M for specific facilities, plus $87.9M for one home-care pharmacy operation over 2018-2024) sourced to what he describes as “public databases of CMS and HHS,” but never sums them to $190 million on camera — that total exists only in the video’s written title/ description, not as a derivation a viewer can check against the reporting. Every outlet that reported the number (Gateway Pundit, BizPacReview, Townhall, WLT Report) attributes it to this same description, not to DOJ, HHS-OIG, OMIG, or the state Comptroller. Separately, the video’s own title (“Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme”) is exactly 5x higher than its own description’s $190 million — an inconsistency Shirley never resolves.

4. The specific ethnic framing in the video is not present in the government findings. The DOJ complaint, HHS-OIG announcement, and Comptroller audit describe the fraud in terms of billing practices, geography (Flushing/Queens), and specific defendants — none frame the underlying problem around the ethnicity of enrollees. That framing (“elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong”) originates in the shared video, not in any of the underlying government documents.

5. The “mafias” quote is confirmed — directly, by this site, against the video’s own transcript. Shirley opens the video: “One of the largest fraud schemes in America is taking place in New York City as billions of dollars is being defrauded by organized Korean and Chinese mafias, along with other foreigners operating and stealing taxpayer dollars.” That is a claim of organized ethnic criminal conspiracy, stated as the video’s framing device in its first minute — not a stray remark. It appears in no DOJ complaint, OMIG report, or Comptroller audit.

6. The video directly contradicts its own opening framing roughly 40 minutes later. After the daycare confrontations, Shirley says, on camera: “I want to keep in mind, we’re not targeting any community or any race, anybody. This is just straight from the numbers that we pulled… it has nothing to do with Koreans, Asian community. This just has something to do with straight up fraud and uh money that’s tax dollars are going to.” This is a direct, verified, in-video contradiction: the same video opens by naming “organized Korean and Chinese mafias” as the subject and later states the investigation has “nothing to do with” that same ethnicity. Both statements come from the same speaker in the same 53-minute video — this site did not need a secondary source to establish this, since both lines are in the transcript this site pulled directly.

7. Dr. Oz — a sitting federal official, not an independent creator — makes his own ethnic characterizations on camera, and they went unreported by the outlets this entry originally cited. In addition to previously-confirmed lines (“clubhouse for criminals”; durable-medical suppliers “grow like vermin… it’s easier to open one than a bank account”), the direct transcript captures Oz saying: “this area seems to be overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese. They’re very insular. They’re very much proud of their heritage. They speak the same language, same cultures. They hang with each other. They don’t want to tell on each other,” and separately, unprompted and without evidence presented in the clip, “this is also, by the way, the hub of human trafficking in the eastern part of the country.” Unlike Shirley, Oz holds a Senate-confirmed federal post (CMS Administrator) with actual Medicaid program-integrity authority — a materially different accountability standard than an independent YouTuber’s commentary, and one Langworthy’s own committee (Energy & Commerce) has jurisdiction to examine.

8. A methodological red flag: the video treats an elderly, apparently limited-English-proficiency woman’s single-word answer as a confirmed “yes.” On camera, Shirley asks an elderly woman “Does this daycare pay you to come here?” She replies “Yogi” — repeated several times, and never clearly a yes/no answer (it reads as a name or a word she recognizes, not clear affirmation). Shirley immediately tells the camera “She just said yes” and later “She just said they get kickbacks.” This exact exchange also appears, unmodified, in the Facebook clip Langworthy shared with his own “New York should take him up on his offer” caption — meaning the specific moment his post amplifies is one where the video’s own interpretation of what a confused elderly woman said is doing the evidentiary work, not a clear statement from her.

9. Shirley has a documented track record on this exact format, and it cuts against taking his numbers at face value. In December 2025, Shirley published a similar video alleging fraud at Somali-run childcare centers in Minnesota. It was amplified by Vice President JD Vance (per NPR) and other prominent conservatives, and contributed to Gov. Tim Walz dropping his 2026 reelection bid days later. When Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families subsequently visited nine of the specific daycares featured in that video, they found children present at all but one (which was simply not yet open) — directly contradicting the video’s central fraud implication. NPR and the Christian Science Monitor both characterize that report as “unverified” and its central claims as “unsubstantiated.” This is the same format, the same creator, and a similar unverified-statistic-plus-ethnic-framing structure now applied to NYC — a prior instance where the claims were specifically checked by government officials and did not hold up as presented.

Context

None of this means fraud in NYC’s social adult day care system is manufactured — it plainly is not. DOJ has criminally charged real people over a real $120 million scheme in exactly the facilities and neighborhood the video covers, and the state Comptroller has independently flagged $285 million in questionable payments and specific documentation failures in the same program statewide. CMS Administrator Dr. Oz has publicly engaged with the issue. Langworthy’s own words are also narrower than the video he shared — he did not repeat the $190 million figure or the ethnic framing himself, only endorsed the broader call to “uncover fraud, waste, and abuse.”

The gap is that a member of Congress boosted a video to his official page whose headline number ($190 million) is never actually stated in the video’s own audio, whose central ethnic framing (“organized Korean and Chinese mafias”) the same speaker directly contradicts 40 minutes later in the same video (“nothing to do with Koreans, Asian community”), whose CMS-Administrator co-star makes his own unreported ethnic generalizations and an unsupported human-trafficking claim, whose key on-camera “confession” (the specific clip Langworthy shared) rests on interpreting a confused elderly woman’s single non-answer as a “yes,” and whose creator’s most comparable prior video was checked by state officials and found not to hold up. None of that is visible from Langworthy’s caption alone.

Questions This Raises

  1. Has Langworthy’s office sought confirmation of the $190 million figure from CMS, HHS-OIG, or OMIG before amplifying it to his constituents?
  2. Does he draw any distinction, in future statements, between the confirmed $120 million DOJ case and Shirley’s larger, independently sourced total?
  3. What oversight role, if any, does Langworthy’s own committee work (Energy & Commerce, which has Medicaid program-integrity jurisdiction) play in following up on the Comptroller’s $285 million finding?
  4. Given that Shirley’s most comparable prior video (Minnesota, December 2025) was checked by state officials and found largely unsubstantiated, should elected officials amplifying his follow-on videos flag that track record to constituents?
  5. Does Langworthy’s office draw a distinction between Shirley’s commentary and Dr. Oz’s, given that Oz holds a federal office with actual Medicaid program-integrity authority and made his own on-camera ethnic generalizations and an unsupported human-trafficking claim?

Sources

Note: This entry does not allege that Langworthy’s own words were false — his stated text is a general endorsement, not a repetition of the $190 million figure or the video’s ethnic framing. The finding is that he amplified, without qualification, third-party content whose central number is never stated on camera, whose central ethnic framing the same speaker contradicts within the same video, and whose federal-official co-star made his own unreported ethnic generalizations — none of which is visible from the caption alone.

Methodology note: All direct-transcript quotes in this entry (Facts #3, #5, #6, #7, #8) were verified by this site against the video’s own auto-generated captions, pulled programmatically via the Python youtube-transcript-api library on July 16, 2026 — not taken secondhand from news coverage. Auto-generated captions can contain minor transcription errors: one is relevant here — Dr. Oz’s “grow like vermin” is rendered in the raw caption as “grow like Burman,” an obvious speech-to-text mishear; TAG24’s independent reporting of the same video confirms the word is “vermin.” Other reproduced quotes were legible and unambiguous in context. The full transcript is on file (research/transcripts/2026-07-10-nick-shirley-nyc-fraud_yt-Ji3KpgOT0zM.txt) and available on request.

Last updated: July 16, 2026.