Steve Robinson
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Despite the national firestorm over Medicaid fraud, this $60 million Medicaid fraud case in Arizona has gotten little attention. Plot twist: there's a Maine connection.
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International Church at Center of $60M Medicaid Fraud Wired Millions to Rwanda

Prosecutors say Happy House collected more than $60 million for false or inflated treatment claims and paid $5.5 million to a church accused of money laundering. Two men accused of collecting more

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Two Migrant-Run Medicaid Scams, One Playbook: Inside Maine's Multi Million Dollar Autism Racket

Maine Gov. Janet Mills put out a video on March 6 attacking Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz as a “TV doctor” for voicing concerns about fraud in Maine’s Medicaid

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KISSING COUSINS: Maine Senate Candidate Fathered Two Kids With His Cousin

In a sign of how insular and remote Allagash is, Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson has two children with his second cousin, Lana Pelletier, whose father is cousin to Jackson's mom. The tiny St.

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Leaked Docs Show Graham Platner's Wife Probed for Medicaid Fraud

State of Maine welfare fraud investigators have been quietly investigating the wife of disgraced progressive icon and alleged rapist Graham Platner for defrauding the Medicaid program, according to

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Maine AFL-CIO Urges Firing Squad Execution for Democrat Who Won't Back Graham Platner

Andy O'Brien, a top Graham Platner fanboy and the face of the Maine AFL-CIO, posted Monday that a Democratic consultant who opposes Platner should be executed by firing squad after the "revolution."

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Treasury Drops Hammer on ex-Quontic Bank Mortgager Linked to Chinese Cannabis Houses

The U.S. Treasury Department has permanently barred from the banking industry a former Quontic Bank mortgage officer who originated dozens of home loans for rural Maine properties that were later

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Sudden Disruptions to Maine Voting System Raises New Questions for Shenna Bellows

The mystery of the 250 Amazon Absentee Ballots still hasn't been solved and already a new mystery surrounds the Secretary of State's administration of an election in which she's a candidate. On the

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Here's How Graham Platner Could Be Replaced as Maine Democrats' U.S. Senate Nominee

On June 9th, Kik aficionado and Totenkopf mascot Graham Platner will win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate election. Gov. Janet Mills and little-known competitor David Costello will appear

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Maine's Medicaid Fraud Crisis Is a Ticking Time Bomb

For eight years, the evidence has been piling up in plain view: MaineCare, the state’s $4-billion-and-growing Medicaid behemoth, has become the most defrauded welfare program in Maine’s history.

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WELFARE FRAUD: Janet Mills Freezes Medicaid Payments While Denying Rampant Medicaid Fraud

Gov. Janet Mills’ Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is once again withholding payments from MaineCare providers, delaying some claims by roughly two months until the next fiscal year

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Four "British Hikers" Caught on Maine's Golden Road After Illegally Entering U.S. from Canada

British men Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh were caught illegally sneaking into the U.S. in a remote part of Maine, per court records.

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$16 Million Medicaid Jackpot: Maine Autism Provider Terminated After Explosive Growth, Migrant La

Maine health officials have terminated Paradise Residential Services LLC — a Portland-area autism residential care provider — from the state's Medicaid program (MaineCare), citing “serious

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