The report found the unit secured fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments in four of the past five years
报告显示，该调查组在过去五年中有四年仅获得不到10起刑事欺诈起诉。
July 2, 2026 4:21pm EDT / Fox News
2026年7月2日 美国东部时间下午4:21 / 福克斯新闻
Lawmakers on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee question Medicaid officials from California, Ohio, Minnesota and New York regarding accusations of widespread fraud and inadequate oversight.
众议院能源与商业小组委员会的议员就广泛存在的欺诈和监督不力的指控，质询了来自加利福尼亚州、俄亥俄州、明尼苏达州和纽约州的医疗补助官员。
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing renewed criticism from Republicans after the Trump administration suspended federal funding for the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), citing years of poor criminal enforcement performance and leadership decisions that federal officials say left fraud investigations lagging.
特朗普政府以多年来刑事执法表现不佳、联邦官员称其领导层决策导致欺诈调查进展滞后为由，暂停了纽约州医疗补助欺诈调查组（MFCU）的联邦资金，纽约州总检察长莉蒂希娅·詹姆斯因此再次遭到共和党人的批评。
The federal action gives Republicans a new line of attack against James as she campaigns for re-election. Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy has made the state’s struggling Medicaid Fraud Control Unit a key issue in the race, arguing James failed to aggressively prosecute fraud. Federal watchdogs’ findings now lend new weight to those claims.
这一联邦举措为共和党在詹姆斯竞选连任期间攻击她提供了新的切入点。共和党挑战者萨里塔·科马蒂雷迪将该州处境艰难的医疗补助欺诈调查组作为竞选的核心议题，称詹姆斯未能积极起诉欺诈行为。联邦监督机构的调查结果如今为这些指控增添了新的分量。
“Letitia James ran New York’s Medicaid Fraud Unit into the ground, and now we know why: a deliberate leadership choice to open fewer cases and let them drag on for years,” Komatireddy said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“莉蒂希娅·詹姆斯把纽约州医疗补助调查组搞砸了，现在我们知道原因了：领导层故意选择少立案，让案件拖延数年，”科马蒂雷迪在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中说道。
“This means New York taxpayers are losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters, and patients and seniors are being hurt or neglected, and no one is holding them accountable.”
“这意味着纽约纳税人的血汗钱被欺诈者骗走，患者和老年人受到伤害或被忽视，却没有人追究他们的责任。”
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The Republican Attorneys General Association also chimed in on the funding freeze, arguing it reflected broader differences between Republican and Democratic attorneys general in combating fraud.
共和党总检察长协会也对此次资金冻结表态，称这反映了共和党和民主党总检察长在打击欺诈方面的广泛分歧。
“While Republican attorneys general are aggressively fighting fraud, waste, and abuse, Democrat AGs like Keith Ellison in Minnesota and Letitia James in New York knowingly aid and abet scams and fraud in their states,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement.
“共和党总检察长们正在积极打击欺诈、浪费和滥用职权行为，而明尼苏达州的基思·埃利森和纽约州的莉蒂希娅·詹姆斯等民主党总检察长却有意纵容本州的诈骗和欺诈行为，”共和党总检察长协会执行主任亚当·派珀在一份声明中说道。
“Republican AGs are thrilled to roll up our sleeves and work with JD Vance, Republican AG staff alum Andrew Ferguson, Scott Brady, and the White House Task Force to save taxpayers billions of dollars and deliver maximum accountability.”
“共和党总检察长们很高兴能携手J·D·万斯、前共和党总检察长工作人员安德鲁·弗格森、斯科特·布雷迪以及白宫专项工作组，为纳税人节省数十亿美元，并实现最大程度的问责。”
纽约州总检察长共和党候选人萨里塔·科马蒂雷迪抨击詹姆斯总检察长未能充分调查和起诉医疗补助欺诈。（威尔·沃尔德隆/奥尔巴尼时报联盟 via 盖蒂图片社）
In a June 30 letter denying the unit’s annual recertification, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) officials concluded that New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had become the lowest-performing large state unit in the nation for criminal Medicaid fraud enforcement despite receiving roughly $60 million annually in federal funding and employing more than 270 staff members.
在6月30日拒绝该调查组年度重新认证的一封信中，美国卫生与公众服务部监察长办公室（OIG）官员得出结论称，尽管纽约州医疗补助欺诈调查组每年获得约6000万美元联邦资金，拥有270多名工作人员，但它已成为全美大型州调查组中医疗补助欺诈刑事执法表现最差的机构。
“The New York MFCU is not effectively prosecuting criminal Medicaid fraud,” the letter stated. “The Unit reported only 53 fraud convictions from 2023 to 2025. This is by far the lowest among similar-sized Units; the next lowest number of reported fraud convictions for this period was 129.
“纽约州医疗补助调查组未能有效起诉刑事医疗补助欺诈，”信中写道。“该调查组2023年至2025年仅报告了53起欺诈定罪。这是同等规模调查组中迄今为止最低的；同期报告欺诈定罪数第二低的调查组为129起。
“Enough is enough.”
“够了，不能再这样下去了。”
The report also found New York ranked last in criminal indictments, securing fewer than 10 fraud indictments in four of the past five years.
报告还发现，纽约州在刑事起诉方面排名垫底，过去五年中有四年仅获得不到10起欺诈起诉。
Federal officials further found that 34% of the unit’s open cases were more than three years old, while 69% of referrals from the state’s Medicaid Program Integrity Unit had remained pending for at least two years, contributing to a growing investigative backlog.
联邦官员进一步发现，该调查组34%的未结案件已超过三年，而该州医疗补助项目诚信调查组转来的案件中有69%至少已悬置两年，这加剧了日益严重的调查积压问题。
The HHS letter concluded that the unit’s poor performance stemmed in large part from “a deliberate leadership choice” to prioritize high-impact civil fraud cases over criminal prosecutions, finding that strategy had left the office ineffective at pursuing criminal Medicaid fraud despite its size and resources.
卫生与公众服务部的信中得出结论，该调查组表现不佳在很大程度上源于“领导层的故意选择”，即优先处理影响重大的民事欺诈案件而非刑事起诉，该策略导致该办公室尽管规模和资源充足，却无法有效追究刑事医疗补助欺诈责任。
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宾夕法尼亚州总检察长解释该州为何在医疗补助欺诈定罪方面领跑全国，而其他州则在应对大规模诈骗计划
纽约州总检察长莉蒂希娅·詹姆斯于2022年11月1日在纽约市皇后区杰克逊高地社区与社区领袖一同参加竞选集会。（美联社照片/爱德华多·门德斯·阿尔瓦雷斯，资料图）
While federal officials acknowledged the state’s fraud unit remained competitive in civil recoveries, they said those results did not outweigh the decline in criminal enforcement.
尽管联邦官员承认该州欺诈调查组在民事追偿方面仍具有竞争力，但他们表示，这些成果无法抵消刑事执法方面的下滑。
“The Unit has sacrificed its ability to effectively fight criminal fraud to obtain civil recoveries that are largely in line with its peers,” the report stated.
“该调查组为了获得与同行基本持平的民事追偿结果，牺牲了有效打击刑事欺诈的能力，”报告写道。
James blasted the funding freeze, accusing the Trump administration of targeting New York for political reasons.
詹姆斯抨击此次资金冻结，指责特朗普政府出于政治目的针对纽约州。
“This administration’s unprecedented attack on New York is another political distraction,” James said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “During my time as attorney general, my office has recovered more than $627 million for Medicaid and was recognized by this very administration for leading the nation in anti-fraud efforts.”
“本届政府对纽约州前所未有的打击又是一次政治干扰，”詹姆斯在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中说道。“在我担任总检察长期间，我的办公室为医疗补助系统追回了超过6.27亿美元资金，并且正是本届政府认可我们在全国反欺诈工作中处于领先地位。”
James’ office noted that HHS highlighted New York as one of four states responsible for half of all civil recoveries nationwide in fiscal year 2025. The attorney general also pointed to several recent Medicaid fraud prosecutions, including multimillion-dollar fraud cases announced in recent weeks.
詹姆斯的办公室指出，卫生与公众服务部曾指出，2025财年全国一半的民事追偿额来自四个州，纽约便是其中之一。这位总检察长还提到了最近几起医疗补助欺诈起诉案件，包括最近几周宣布的涉及数百万美元的欺诈案。
“The only people this decision benefits are the criminals we investigate every day,” James said. “We are considering all legal options to stop this outrageous action.”
“这项决定唯一受益的是我们每天都在调查的欺诈者，”詹姆斯说道。“我们正在考虑所有法律手段来阻止这一离谱的举措。”
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纽约北区联邦检察官约翰·萨尔科内（威尔·沃尔德隆/奥尔巴尼时报联盟 via 盖蒂图片社）
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York said they are expanding efforts to investigate Medicaid fraud and patient abuse.
与此同时，纽约联邦检察官表示，他们正在加大力度调查医疗补助欺诈和患者虐待案件。
“Attorney General James’ apparent inability to explain the New York MFCU’s indefensible criminal enforcement performance is not a political distraction as she puts it,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who is spearheading the revival of the NDNY Health Care Fraud Task Force, said in a statement.
“詹姆斯总检察长显然无法为纽约州医疗补助调查组站不住脚的刑事执法表现辩解，这并非她所说的政治干扰，”牵头恢复纽约北区医疗保健欺诈特别工作组的第一助理联邦检察官约翰·A·萨尔科内三世在一份声明中说道。
Sarcone noted that the New York MFCU averaged just nine criminal indictments a year between 2021 and 2025, compared with more than 100 annually during the three years preceding James’ tenure.
萨尔科内指出，2021年至2025年间，纽约州医疗补助调查组年均仅获得9起刑事起诉，而詹姆斯上任前三年的年均起诉数超过100起。
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“Public benefits fraud and Medicaid fraud did not abruptly stop in 2019,” Sarcone added. “Instead, under the failed leadership of AG James, criminal Medicaid fraud in New York State has been ignored.”
“公共福利欺诈和医疗补助欺诈并不会在2019年突然停止，”萨尔科内补充道。“相反，在总检察长詹姆斯失败的领导下，纽约州的刑事医疗补助欺诈被置之不理。”
The suspension took effect July 1 and remains in effect through Sept. 30 unless New York completes a series of corrective actions ordered by HHS, including reducing case backlogs, increasing criminal indictments and improving coordination with federal investigators. If those deficiencies are not corrected, the Office of Inspector General warned New York it could lose its federal Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant for fiscal year 2027.
此次资金冻结于7月1日生效，将持续至9月30日，除非纽约州完成卫生与公众服务部要求的一系列整改措施，包括减少案件积压、增加刑事起诉数量以及改善与联邦调查人员的协调。监察长办公室警告纽约州，如果这些缺陷得不到纠正，该州可能会失去2027财年联邦医疗补助欺诈调查组的拨款。
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
伊莱恩·马伦是福克斯新闻数字频道和福克斯商业频道的记者，负责报道全国政治新闻。
Letitia James hammered after NY Medicaid fraud unit funding frozen over ineffective enforcement
The report found the unit secured fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments in four of the past five years
July 2, 2026 4:21pm EDT / Fox News
Lawmakers on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee question Medicaid officials from California, Ohio, Minnesota and New York regarding accusations of widespread fraud and inadequate oversight.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing renewed criticism from Republicans after the Trump administration suspended federal funding for the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), citing years of poor criminal enforcement performance and leadership decisions that federal officials say left fraud investigations lagging.
The federal action gives Republicans a new line of attack against James as she campaigns for re-election. Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy has made the state’s struggling Medicaid Fraud Control Unit a key issue in the race, arguing James failed to aggressively prosecute fraud. Federal watchdogs’ findings now lend new weight to those claims.
“Letitia James ran New York’s Medicaid Fraud Unit into the ground, and now we know why: a deliberate leadership choice to open fewer cases and let them drag on for years,” Komatireddy said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This means New York taxpayers are losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters, and patients and seniors are being hurt or neglected, and no one is holding them accountable.”
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The Republican Attorneys General Association also chimed in on the funding freeze, arguing it reflected broader differences between Republican and Democratic attorneys general in combating fraud.
“While Republican attorneys general are aggressively fighting fraud, waste, and abuse, Democrat AGs like Keith Ellison in Minnesota and Letitia James in New York knowingly aid and abet scams and fraud in their states,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement.
“Republican AGs are thrilled to roll up our sleeves and work with JD Vance, Republican AG staff alum Andrew Ferguson, Scott Brady, and the White House Task Force to save taxpayers billions of dollars and deliver maximum accountability.”
New York Attorney General GOP candidate Saritha Komatireddy blasted AG James for failing to adequately investigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud.(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)
In a June 30 letter denying the unit’s annual recertification, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) officials concluded that New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had become the lowest-performing large state unit in the nation for criminal Medicaid fraud enforcement despite receiving roughly $60 million annually in federal funding and employing more than 270 staff members.
“The New York MFCU is not effectively prosecuting criminal Medicaid fraud,” the letter stated. “The Unit reported only 53 fraud convictions from 2023 to 2025. This is by far the lowest among similar-sized Units; the next lowest number of reported fraud convictions for this period was 129.
“Enough is enough.”
The report also found New York ranked last in criminal indictments, securing fewer than 10 fraud indictments in four of the past five years.
Federal officials further found that 34% of the unit’s open cases were more than three years old, while 69% of referrals from the state’s Medicaid Program Integrity Unit had remained pending for at least two years, contributing to a growing investigative backlog.
The HHS letter concluded that the unit’s poor performance stemmed in large part from “a deliberate leadership choice” to prioritize high-impact civil fraud cases over criminal prosecutions, finding that strategy had left the office ineffective at pursuing criminal Medicaid fraud despite its size and resources.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James attends a campaign rally with community leaders in the Jackson Heights neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City on Nov. 1, 2022.(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
While federal officials acknowledged the state’s fraud unit remained competitive in civil recoveries, they said those results did not outweigh the decline in criminal enforcement.
“The Unit has sacrificed its ability to effectively fight criminal fraud to obtain civil recoveries that are largely in line with its peers,” the report stated.
James blasted the funding freeze, accusing the Trump administration of targeting New York for political reasons.
“This administration’s unprecedented attack on New York is another political distraction,” James said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “During my time as attorney general, my office has recovered more than $627 million for Medicaid and was recognized by this very administration for leading the nation in anti-fraud efforts.”
James’ office noted that HHS highlighted New York as one of four states responsible for half of all civil recoveries nationwide in fiscal year 2025. The attorney general also pointed to several recent Medicaid fraud prosecutions, including multimillion-dollar fraud cases announced in recent weeks.
“The only people this decision benefits are the criminals we investigate every day,” James said. “We are considering all legal options to stop this outrageous action.”
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John Sarcone, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York said they are expanding efforts to investigate Medicaid fraud and patient abuse.
“Attorney General James’ apparent inability to explain the New York MFCU’s indefensible criminal enforcement performance is not a political distraction as she puts it,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who is spearheading the revival of the NDNY Health Care Fraud Task Force, said in a statement.
Sarcone noted that the New York MFCU averaged just nine criminal indictments a year between 2021 and 2025, compared with more than 100 annually during the three years preceding James’ tenure.
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“Public benefits fraud and Medicaid fraud did not abruptly stop in 2019,” Sarcone added. “Instead, under the failed leadership of AG James, criminal Medicaid fraud in New York State has been ignored.”
The suspension took effect July 1 and remains in effect through Sept. 30 unless New York completes a series of corrective actions ordered by HHS, including reducing case backlogs, increasing criminal indictments and improving coordination with federal investigators. If those deficiencies are not corrected, the Office of Inspector General warned New York it could lose its federal Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant for fiscal year 2027.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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