This time, it was a Medicaid fraud, involving the personal care assistance (PCA) program and occurred in state court. But otherwise, the result is the same. From the Minnesota Star…
Lou Raguse of KARE-11 has the report that Abdirashid Ismail Said, accused of an $11 million Medicaid fraud, fled the country a week before his scheduled courtroom trial. And how…
Yesterday (Jan. 14), Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a new fraud prosecution. His press release, Attorney General Ellison announces over $3 million in fraud charges against Medicaid provider. So,…
Gov. Tim Walz announced today, Governor Walz Orders Third-Party Audit of Medicaid Billing at DHS:Governor orders pause on all payments for 14 DHS Medicaid services until audit is complete. The…
We’ve added two items to our official Scandal Tracker 2024 list. Ryan Faircloth of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports this morning on a federal analysis of COVID-era unemployment benefit overpayments…
Back in late August, Attorney General Keith Ellison (himself a Democrat) announced the indictment of five men in a $9.5 million alleged PCA fraud.
State Attorney General Keith Ellison charged three more individuals with a range of crimes related to an $11 million alleged scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through a personal care…
Minnesota’s $1 billion/year personal care assistant (PCA) program has been making headlines recently, and not for good reasons. State Attorney General Keith Ellison charged 18 individuals in an alleged scheme…
State Attorney General Keith Ellison charged 18 individuals with a range of crimes related to a $9.5 million scheme to defraud the state’s Medicaid program through a personal care assistant…
The personal care assistant (PCA) program is slated to receive an additional $247 million per year, according to budget documents filed this week (page 25). The proposal (p. 28), would…
Recently, we’ve been making connections between the free-food scandal, overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE), and other government entitlement programs overseen by the state Department of Human Services…
An alleged ringleader and her six recruits have been charged with supposedly bamboozling $7.7 million from Medicaid. According to the Star Tribune, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office charged seven women…