MINNESOTA WOMAN CONVICTED IN $3.6M SCHEME TO DEFRAUD MEDICAID HOUSING SERVICES PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

ST. PAUL - United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that a federal jury in St. Paul convicted a Minnesota woman yesterday for executing a scheme to steal $3.6 million from the now-defunct Minnesota Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) Program. The federal jury trial was before U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.

"The Fraud Division has arrived in Minnesota - and we are here to stay," said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division. "The jury's guilty verdict in this case sends a clear message that those who ste...