{"id":259056,"date":"2026-08-04T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:56:09","slug":"doj-announces-massive-healthcare-fraud-takedown-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259056\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ announces massive healthcare fraud takedown in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announces criminal charges against 19 defendants in a Pennsylvania Medicaid fraud scheme. He details how fraudsters looted millions from home healthcare programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Medicaid home care programs are targeted in a massive federal crackdown as Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announces charges against 19 defendants in Pennsylvania. McDonald warns that greedy opportunists turned these life-saving programs into a &#8216;money tree&#8217; and a &#8216;gravy train&#8217; for criminal activities. The Department of Justice is working with local authorities to prosecute those stealing over $4 million from taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announces criminal charges against 19 defendants in a Pennsylvania Medicaid fraud scheme. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[82171,2032,82170,28,30,29,420],"class_list":["post-259056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}