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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison urges tougher fraud enforcement, criticizes federal "Operation Metro Surge"
Summary
Attorney General Keith Ellison told a committee his office has secured 300 Medicaid fraud convictions, recovered more than $80 million, and urged lawmakers to pass a medical assistance protection act while sharply criticizing a federal operation he said undermined fraud investigations in Minnesota.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told a legislative committee that his office has secured 300 Medicaid fraud convictions and recovered more than $80,000,000 for taxpayers, while urging lawmakers to give his office more tools to prosecute fraud.
"Fraud in government programs is reprehensible. It takes food from the tables of the hungry. It takes shelter from those without it," Ellison said, framing fraud enforcement as a priority for state government and describing his office's recent work returning tens of millions of dollars to victims of consumer fraud.
Ellison said his Medicaid fraud control unit has ranked fifth nationally over the past six years in fraud convictions and noted that, under Minnesota law, the attorney general's office has limited criminal jurisdiction: Medicaid…
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