Authorities in Georgia have charged a former social services coordinator with orchestrating a large-scale fraud targeting elderly Medicaid recipients and Social Security beneficiaries. The investigation, led by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the U.S. Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, revealed that the coordinator exploited her access to confidential client data to […]
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