Feds announce charges in ‘unprecedented’ Medicaid fraud scheme in Minnesota

By: Max Nesterak

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: May 21, 2026

Words: 1,343

Last Updated: 1 day, 16 hours ago

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Top Trump administration officials traveled to Minnesota on Thursday to announce federal criminal charges against 15 people for alleged fraud schemes targeting more than $90 million in Medicaid funds intended to help the state’s children, homeless and disabled.

The charges include the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever brought in Minnesota, federal officials said, and represent a “shot across the bow” in Trump’s “war on fraud” largely targeting blue states.

“We’re going to …

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