Recent polls show that for the first time in 60 years, Minnesota may elect a Republican as its attorney general.
Attorney Ron Schutz is facing off against current Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
For 39 years, Schutz was an attorney and partner in the national law firm Robins Kaplan. One of his top issues in the attorney general’s race is fighting fraud.
Ellison’s Medicaid unit has won 340 Medicaid fraud convictions in seven years. Just last week, Ellison won an $18.5 million settlement against a Minnesota firm, Partners in Nutrition, but Schutz says that is not enough and points to the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud.
Schutz challenges that there were any convictions
“With stays of adjudication, there is no conviction; there are 214 of those cases that they looked at where there was no conviction,” Schutz said.
A spokesperson for Ellison disputed Shultz’s claim there were…
Identity theft is the “foundational” fraud upon which many other crimes are built. It involves the unauthorized acquisition and use of a person’s personal identifying information (PII), such as an ID number, Social Security number, or passport details.
- How it works: Fraudsters obtain PII through data breaches, mail theft, or “social engineering” (tricking people into revealing details). Once they have this data, they can open new bank accounts, apply for credit cards or loans, and even receive medical treatment under your name.
- Synthetic Identity Fraud: A sophisticated variation where criminals combine real and fabricated information to create a completely new, “synthetic” person. This is particularly difficult to detect because there is no single victim to report the suspicious activity initially.