Federal prosecutors on Thursday unveiled more charges in a widespread, ongoing investigation of “staggering, industrial-scale” Medicaid fraud in Minnesota that’s likely to reach into the billions of dollars.
The newest indictments allege defendants bilked a Medicaid-funded housing stabilization services program operating in Minnesota, billing for services they didn’t perform, with the money used for global travel and international real estate.
Another set of indictments accuses two men from Philadelphia of committing what Joe Thompson, first U.S. assistant attorney for Minnesota, described as “fraud tourism” — creating two companies that submitted $3.5 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims for nonexistent housing support services in Minnesota.
Thompson said the pair dropped into Minnesota because they’d heard the program was “easy money.”
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