FRAUD

Attorney General Kris Mayes says a $6 million grant program will support tribal communities impacted by fraudulent sober living home schemes.

The indictment comes after state officials promised a crackdown on massive Medicaid billing fraud, particularly on illegitimate group homes that scammed the state Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent charges through the American Indian Health Program.

Authorities say a huge Tucson addiction recovery community shuttered this week, leaving more than 200 people homeless as Arizona investigates widespread Medicaid fraud largely affecting Native Americans.

Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix from states as far away as Montana in a widespread billing scheme that mostly targeted Medicaid’s American Indian Health Program.

An Arizona woman who faked being a nurse practitioner during the coronavirus pandemic has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Navajo law enforcement teams made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes who are living on the streets in the metro Phoenix area, after the state cracked down on Medicaid fraud and suspended unlicensed sober living homes.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona says four people have been sentenced for fraudulently obtaining millions in federal COVID-19 assistance, including a husband and wife who netted $13 million.

Steve Bannon, conservative strategist and longtime ally of Donald Trump, will stand trial next May on charges he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The co-founder of a fundraising group that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been sentenced to four years in prison on fraud and conspiracy charges.

A suburban Phoenix man who knowingly sold thousands of counterfeit N95 masks during the height of the pandemic will not face jail time.