8 charged in Minnesota Medicaid fraud scheme
Created: January 27, 2021 03:54 PM Wednesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced his office charged eight people with 46 total counts of felony theft in connection to a long-running fraud scheme. Ellison's office said the scheme cost Minnesota's Medical Assistance program more than $860,000. According to Ellison's office, Trenea Deshawn Davis, of Brooklyn Center, faces 11 felony theft charges. Authorities said she admitted to being the ringleader of the scheme, and told investigators she recruited family and friends to feign or exaggerate medical conditions to quali...