Eight charged in $8.4M scheme linked to Minnesota housing program dismantled after $100M losses
Minnesota charges eight in alleged Medicaid housing fraud as state moves to reboot troubled program
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged eight people with orchestrating more than $8 million in alleged wire fraud tied to the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program, a Medicaid benefit intended to keep disabled and elderly residents housed. The indictments, announced Thursday in Minneapolis, mark what prosecutors called the “first wave” in a widening probe into a program that ballooned far beyond its original…