West Coast scammers are on notice as the Department of Justice launched a sweeping crackdown on healthcare fraud — including the hospice schemes that have plagued Los Angeles. Officials at the U.S. Attorney for California’s Northern District in San Francisco said at a Thursday press conference that the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division has formed a “strike force” rooting out rampant healthcare fraud on the West Coast. Craig H. Missakian, United States Attorney of California. justice.gov “If you steal from the American taxpayer, the DOJ and our law enforcement partners will do everything possible to award you free housing in federal prison,’ said Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald at the Thursday presser. The team brings together federal prosecutors in California, Arizona and Nevada for a coordinated crackdown that will use data to root out healthcare fraud such as massive medical billing schemes that have been exposed in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.…