Federal raids on Brooklyn Medicaid fraud sites pile on more proof that Attorney General Letitia James can't be bothered with the work that actually matters.

Federal agents hit at least two Brooklyn adult day-care facilities on Tuesday as part of a probe covering more than 100 sites suspected of Medicaid fraud, money laundering, and kickbacks. The sweep landed in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ own backyard, and it underscored a simple point critics keep making about her office.

While James spends time and staff on high-profile fights, basic enforcement work keeps falling to someone else. A New York Post opinion column framed the raids as fresh evidence she will not police the scams draining state Medicaid dollars.

The same piece said Medicaid fraudsters steal billions in New York, and quite possibly tens of billions. That is money meant for care, not kickbacks. Yet the agents making the cases this week were federal, not the state’s top law officer leading the charge in public.

Tax debt sits while priorities point elsewhere

James’ office also faces a hard question on unpaid state taxes. The column stated that convicted Wall Street figure Daniel Gordon owes New York $59 million in unpaid taxes and penalties and is living in California.

It reported her office has done virtually nothing to pursue him. James formally needs state tax authorities to request her help on a matter like that. If no request comes, the debt can sit. Taxpayers still wait.

That pattern matches a broader complaint about where her attention goes. A whistleblower inside the attorney general’s office has said work tied to Donald Trump and his businesses was practically all she cared about, per the column’s account of those claims. Our earlier coverage of a whistleblower inside Letitia James' office tracked the same theme of skewed targets and political focus.

None of that recovers Medicaid cash. None of it collects a $59 million tax bill. It does show a office that knows how to gear up when the target fits a political brand.

Crime victims rally as James shares a stage with Hochul

Public safety is another gap the column hammered. On the same Tuesday as the raids, GOP candidate Saritha Komatireddy rallied with the families of six serious crime victims. The challenger keeps pressing the case that James does not want a real fight on crime.

Families who buried loved ones do not need another press strategy. They need an attorney general who treats violent crime as the main event, not a side note. A related report on how crime victims blast Letitia James at a rally captured that same anger in public view.

James can find a camera when the moment suits her. A photo caption placed her at a Manhattan press conference with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Oct. 2, 2026. Standing beside the governor is not the same as clearing Medicaid fraud mills or chasing a nine-figure tax debtor across state lines.

Hochul has also steered sensitive criminal matters toward James, including the Cornell gang-rape case handed to the embattled AG. Hand-offs and photo ops do not erase the record on fraud, taxes, and street crime.

Political cases get the energy; fraud gets the feds

The column argued James has poured resources into legal action against Trump and his businesses while softer on the grind of Medicaid crime and tax collection. It also cast her as more eager to investigate cops than to confront the public-safety crisis head-on.

Readers have watched the Trump track in detail, including fights over proof and process in the huge New York civil case. Trump lawyers have pressed James on missing evidence details in that $450 million fight. Whatever one thinks of those cases, they are not a substitute for cleaning up day-care fraud rings in Brooklyn.

When federal agents are the ones raiding adult day-care sites over laundering and kickbacks, the state’s chief lawyer looks late to her own beat. More than 100 sites under suspicion is not a small mess. It is a system-level failure that grew on her watch.

James still holds the tools of the office, subpoenas, prosecutors, and the duty to act when tax authorities ask. The Gordon bill remains unpaid on the facts given. The Medicaid probe is moving under federal lead. Crime victims are standing with her challenger.

An attorney general who chases headlines and leaves fraud, taxes, and victims behind is not doing the job New Yorkers hired her to do.