Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) of the Attorney General’s Office has charged five people in two separate, ongoing investigations with defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $10 million. In the first set of cases, Attorney General Ellison charged three people with defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $9 million. These cases are part of the investigation first announced in December 2023, when the Attorney General charged three individuals with bilking nearly $11 million from the Medicaid program in what is the largest case brought by the Minnesota MFCU.
In the second set of cases, Attorney General Ellison charged two people in Hennepin County District Court as part of a scheme to defraud the Minnesota Medical Assistance (Medicaid) program out of more than $1.4 million. The co-conspirators, Charles Omato and LaTonia Jackson, operated a non-emergency medical transportation company, Driving Miss Daisy, that bilked the Medicaid program in two ways: by billing for transportation services that were not provided at all, and by billing for transportation services that could not have occurred as alleged, including billing for services that were based on impossible travel times documented by drivers.
