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New Medicaid-fraud charges in Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg

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The more you look for welfare fraud, the more you find — especially in Democratic states.

Take Minnesota: On Thursday, the feds charged another 15 people with $90 million worth of fraud connected with the North Star State’s Medicaid programs.

That includes the “largest autism fraud case ever,” per Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald.

And the charges, McDonald added, are just the “beginning of our work in Minnesota”; stolen funds will likely wind up a whopping $9 billion.

That’s a staggering sum. And it’s just one state — total estimates of Medicaid fraud nationwide run as high as $120 billion a year.

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