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Why would the attorney general of any state be uninterested in prosecuting fraud amounting to billions of dollars? As the chief law enforcement officer in their state, aren\u2019t they charged with investigating and charging such crimes, particularly when government funds are implicated? Isn\u2019t that pretty much their entire reason for being? Not if they\u2019re the AG of a blue state, and particularly not if a Republican is in the White House.<\/p>

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\r\nThe Justice Department today announced the Minnesota Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 15 defendants, including owners of child care centers and various Medicaid providers, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over $90 million in intended loss, including the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in the District and first-of-their kind charges involving additional Medicaid programs. The Justice Department also announced a major investment in combatting Medicaid fraud through a significant expansion of the Division’s Health Care Fraud Section,\u00a0allocating funding to permit the hiring of 15 new Trial Attorney positions to combat Medicaid fraud across the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Among the worst frauds has been parents getting fake autism diagnoses for their children, raking in huge sums with the help of scammers who provide no services at all:<\/p>\n

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In the largest Medicaid autism fraud case ever charged by the Department, two defendants were charged in connection with an approximately $46.6 million scheme to defraud the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program, a publicly funded Minnesota Health Care Program that offers medically necessary services to people under the age of 21 with autism spectrum disorder. In 2017, Minnesota became one of the first states to offer Medicaid coverage for EIDBI services.\u00a0EIDBI claims skyrocketed from over $600,000 in 2018 to over $400 million by 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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North Carolina alone saw an increase of at least 47,000%. One would think an AG would be all over that, if only for the publicity value alone. And Integrated Community Supports fraud is also rampant:<\/p>\n

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In the first criminal prosecution involving fraud in Minnesota’s Integrated Community Supports (ICS) program, one defendant was charged with a $1.4 million scheme to bill for services that were not provided as represented. ICS is a Minnesota Medicaid benefit designed to fill a gap in the service continuum between a person living in their own home and more restrictive settings such as group homes and assisted living. ICS was designed to help people live more independently in the community–as opposed to an institutionalized setting–with daily one-on-one help with health, safety, and household tasks so that qualifying individuals can live in the community. The defendant in the prosecution announced today submitted claims for vulnerable recipients who required 24-hour care, one of whom was found deceased a day after being billed for services he did not receive.<\/p>\n

After paying out a total of approximately $4.2 million when the ICS program began in 2021, the cost has grown to more than $183 million in 2025. In all, claims data shows that the Medicaid system has paid out more than $460 million for ICS services since 2021.<\/strong><\/p>

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It seems these programs were designed for fraud. All that was necessary was for the people supposedly monitoring them to ensure money only went to the right people to fail to do their jobs, or for their superiors to order them to ignore crimes. It didn\u2019t help that in states like Minnesota, the Governor was repeatedly told about fraud and did nothing, and AG Keith Ellison arguably participated in the proceeds of fraud. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance is in charge of a fraud task force and recently hosted an anti-fraud roundtable at the White House. He invited every AG from every state. Republicans showed up. Democrats didn\u2019t:<\/p>\n

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Is \u201cCatturd\u201d right? Did Democrat state AGs refuse to attend because they\u2019re complicit? Because they refuse to cooperate in any way with the Trump DOJ or VP Vance? Because they don\u2019t want to admit such outlandish crimes happened on their watch? All three? Or was their refusal to attend indicative of the reality that the Democrat Party and Democrat candidates directly benefit from fraud, and they don\u2019t want to do anything to stop the flow of money President Trump interrupted when he ended USAID?<\/p>\n

Trump has about 32 months remaining in his second term. With any luck, he\u2019ll be able to claw back an enormous amount of money\u2014potentially trillions\u2014and put fraudsters, potentially including politicians and attorneys general, in prison. That might have the salutary effect of discouraging future fraud.<\/p>\n

They might not want to do that either.<\/p>\n

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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