For eight years, the evidence has been piling up in plain view: MaineCare, the state’s $4-billion-and-growing Medicaid behemoth, has become the most defrauded welfare program in Maine’s history. Audits. Whistleblowers. Federal claims data. Federal demand letters. Secret directives ordering state employees not to talk to the U.S. Department of Justice. Internal emails admitting the goal … Continue reading How Maine Became Ground Zero in the National Medicaid Fraud Scandal — And Why Augusta Spent Three Years Pretending It Wasn’t Happening