uncontrollable future. we do try to re-evaluate the budget every now and then. every few months. to make sure we re hitting the targets. reporter: that seemingly simple trick can be devilishly hard. in part because economic advisers say so many people find the idea unpleasant. just listen to the word budget. it s not a very appealing word, is it? reporter: yet amanda steinberg who started dai dailyworth.com said a good budget does not have to account for every penny. people just need to make sure big important items such as household expenses, insurance and savings are covered. and once they are, the budgeter can confidently spent money on things that he or she simply wants. oftentimes that means we re going to create a life that turns into a hampster wheel. because it s so expensive and hard to maintain. so that if you create a budget you have some visibility into what your life should cost so you have the freedom to spend money and you re not staying up late at night wonder
money. reporter: what did she do with the $5 given to her by the drug rehab center? she bought drugs. we was going just to get the money to buy weed. my whole thing was like, y all was paying us to get high. reporter: the day after our interview, the state charged iluno and three of his employees at g.b. medical with grand sheft in connection with more than 2,000 phony bills for rehab dating back to 2009. he s pled not guilty. records show your tax dollars still paid him. even after he was arrested and out on bail. iluno s attorney blamed the billing practices on counselors and employees who were not well supervised. the attorney says iluno was a certified counselor himself who was allowed to bill medicaid. despite that, the clinic voluntarily shut down july 1st. without explanation. cnn and the center for
including evidence of ghost clients. two years ago, the county uncovered what appeared to be fraudulent documentation used for billing. a state auditor urged pride be shut down. not only did pride stay open, it got even more medi-cal money. more than $1 million in a year. in its most recent investigation brought on by yet another employee accusing pride of billing for ghost clients, county investigators found the allegations unsubstantiated. they couldn t prove it. but they did find the operation extremely troubling. t discovering missing paperwork, signed and dated medical waivers with no client information and missing treatment plans. despite that poor review, pride is staying open. if the county investigators couldn t find evidence of ghost patients, maybe they should do what we did. go there. on a wednesday.
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because for the last 11 years he s been on a list of people banned from billing medicaid. convicted of student loan fraud. george oluno should never have been allowed to even open this clinic called g.b. medical. i m asking you a few questions, sir, about the drug rehab business. i want to ask you about you seem to be at the center of fraud allegations here. no, no, no, no. reporter: have you been faking signatures on to sheets of paper and billing the state for the money? guess what else? oluno is facing felony criminal charges for ripping off the state. allegedly getting paid by taxpayers to rehab drug abusers who weren t even there. excuse me, sir. how can you bill the state for clients that don t exist? mr. oluno? mr. oluno? just one second, sir? we never saw oluno again.