Bianco Claims California Homeless Crisis Is Money Laundering Scheme Not Housing Issue

What was said

"The people who we call homeless, what we see on the street, living on our sidewalks, living under overpasses, they are nothing but pawns. In this homeless industrial complex money laundering scheme. That's all it is."

Sheriff Chad Bianco accused California's political establishment of using the homeless as pawns in a money laundering operation through nonprofits and NGOs, claiming the $24 billion spent on homelessness never reaches those on the streets. He alleged that 'body brokers' travel the country bringing homeless people to Los Angeles to exploit their Medicare benefits, then abandon them. Bianco claims the crisis could be eliminated in 2 years if drug treatment and mental health facilities were properly funded instead of NGOs.