Several illegal aliens, convicted of sex crimes and attempted murder, have received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded Medicaid benefits, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailed.
As the federal government remains shut down, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill has posted to X just a handful of cases where illegal alien convicts have been able to secure Medicaid benefits — despite Democrats’ claims that such cases do not exist.
“Abraham Pineda Tovar is an 84-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala convicted of sex offenses. He received $7,829 in free taxpayer-funded health care through Medicaid,” O’Neill wrote on X. “Democrats are demanding continued funding of this sex offender’s Medicaid as a condition for reopening the government and paying the hardworking public servants at my department.”
In another example, O’Neill mentioned the case of 38-year-old illegal alien George Bestman, convicted of sexual assault in 2021, who received more than $5,500 in Medicaid benefits.
A similar instance is the case of 33-year-old Elias Nyawenda, convicted of sex crimes, who has received a whopping $176,756 in Medicaid benefits, as well as 41-year-old illegal alien Galuak Rotgai, convicted of attempted second-degree murder after he beat a man with a baseball bat, who has received more than $34,000 in Medicaid benefits.
O’Neill also noted the case of 52-year-old illegal alien Patrick Galoustian of Iran, convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women, who received more than $7,500 in Medicaid benefits — paid for by American taxpayers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/27/hhs-illegals-convicted-sex-crimes-attempted-murder-receive-over-230k-healthcare-benefits/