California man arrested for allegedly stealing millions in homeless funds

California officials person arrested Alexander Soofer, who allegedly utilized tens-of-millions of payer dollars meant to location and provender the stateless to money his lavish lifestyle, Fox News has learned. Soofer was the enforcement manager of the foundation Abundant Blessings, which received authorities backing for its work.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said successful a quality league connected Friday that Soofer was charged with ligament fraud, a felony that carries a maximum of 20 years successful prison.

"I privation to archer you a small spot astir his organization, Abundant Blessings. It was a South Los Angeles-based foundation whose intent is to assistance location and decently provender the estimated 72,000 stateless radical surviving successful the greater Los Angeles area. His enactment received much than $23 cardinal successful payer funds for the intent of lodging and feeding the homeless," Essayli said.

"California was pushing this wealth retired quickly. A batch of wealth went retired the door, with, frankly, precise small vetting, precise small checks and balances. And, he's 1 of the individuals that got it successful this organization," helium added.

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Essayli said that alternatively than providing the needy with "at slightest 3 healthy, balanced, nutritious meals a day," which helium was allegedly contracted to do, Soofer gave them ramen noodles and a microwave.

Soofer allegedly utilized the wealth to enactment a down outgo connected his $7 cardinal mansion, wage for his children's backstage schoolhouse tuition and to acquisition a $125,000 Range Rover, according to Essayli.

Law enforcement took Soofer into custody successful a pre-dawn bust astatine his multi-million-dollar mansion successful Los Angeles. Federal authorities, who assertion Soofer utilized the funds to marque improvements connected his luxury home, aboriginal arrived to tow his Range Rover.

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Tents of stateless radical are seen connected a sidewalk amid rainfall connected Jan. 3, 2026, successful Los Angeles, Calif. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

The bust comes aft autarkic writer Nick Shirley, who worked to exposure the fraud ungraded successful Minnesota, told Congress that the fraud successful California could beryllium "worse" than what helium recovered successful the North Star State. Shirley made the remark successful effect to a question posed by Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., astir whether his authorities was showing akin signs of fraud to what was seen successful Minnesota.

"Fraud successful California mightiness beryllium adjacent worse than the fraud successful Minnesota," Shirley said. When asked to elaborate, helium noted the missing $24 cardinal successful stateless funds, arsenic good arsenic assorted different projects and issues that, successful his opinion, look to awesome fraud.

Earlier this month, Essayli dubbed Gov. Gavin Newsom the "king of fraud."

"California has spent $24 cardinal successful the past 5 years connected homelessness, and nary 1 tin relationship for wherever that wealth has truly gone," Essayli told "Fox & Friends" earlier this month.

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a property league astir "New Funding for Homelessness and Mental Health Efforts" and criticized President Trump implicit ICE operations successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Jan. 16, 2026.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In April, Essayli launched a task unit to analyse corruption successful California, with a absorption connected stateless services. The task unit has already resulted successful national charges against 2 men accused of utilizing existent property projects to exploit the state’s homelessness strategy for idiosyncratic profit.

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Essayli said those cases, which impact millions of dollars successful alleged fraud, are lone the "tip of the iceberg."

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