Watch out: The U.S. Justice Department is getting serious about Medicaid and Medicare fraud, announcing on Friday that it charged just shy of a hundred people with cheating the health-care system. Federal agents wrangled defendants—doctors, health-care company owners, and executives among them—from five different states. Officials said the group is accused of pillaging more than $251 million through false claims. “Countless Americans rely on Medicare for their well-being,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told The Washington Post, adding that federal agencies will continue “to stop those who would illegally manipulate the system.”
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