{"id":722727,"date":"2026-06-24T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722727\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:55:13","slug":"2-vermont-women-indicted-on-medicaid-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722727\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Vermont women indicted on Medicaid fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Two Vermont women have been indicted on Medicaid fraud charges as part of the National Health Care Fraud Takedown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vermont\u2019s attorney general said Yvonne Wescom, 35, of Newport, and Darci Sanderson, 38, of Brattleboro, were separately charged with submitting false timesheets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wescom is accused of defrauding Vermont Medicaid of more than $15,000. Sanderson is accused of defrauding Vermont Medicaid of more than $24,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wescom pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sanderson appeared in court last week and also pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The attorney general also said Sanderson was working with a co-defendant, who is expected to be arraigned later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The National Health Care Fraud Takedown is a coordinated effort by Medicaid Fraud Control Units to address fraud and protect federal and state health care programs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Two Vermont women have been indicted on Medicaid fraud charges as part of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[168328,51903,2302,3071,310911,6884,97,252,253,282438,1341,23183,3,57984,27076,68894,34752,310913,1764,310912],"class_list":["post-722727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-brattleboro","tag-charges","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-darci","tag-fraud","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-indicted","tag-medicaid","tag-newport","tag-news","tag-sanderson","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-wescom","tag-women","tag-yvonne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}