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Herb Morgan

ROLE CA STATE CONTROLLER CANDIDATEAT CAL DOGEMENTIONS 4LAST SEEN APRIL 29, 2026
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Candidate for California State Controller running alongside Steve Hilton, co-author of Cal Doge fraud reports.

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product·All In·APRIL 29, 2026

We've been just looking at the published data on spending to find examples and to make an estimate of the total amount of fraud, waste and abuse in the system. And we've now published four separate fraud reports out of Cal Doge.

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mention·All In·APRIL 29, 2026

The state controller is an elected position. It has the legal power to audit any organization receiving state money and to stop the flow of money if there's any suspicion of improper spending. So there's a guy running with me called Herb Morgan, and we've been doing this work together.

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hire·All In·APRIL 29, 2026

There's a guy running with me called Herb Morgan, and we've been doing this work together. And we've published four reports now, three of them on individual examples of fraud.

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product·All In·APRIL 29, 2026

We actually tracked that money with an AI partner that can get all the reports. And of that $1 billion total in 10 years, the actual amount spent on the purported benefit here, solar panel installation, was $72 million.

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