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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on June 05, 2013, 12:31:19 PM
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Va. yet to see money from Abbott fraud case, Cuccinelli says
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_ffeec21a-cdf0-11e2-981f-0019bb30f31a.html
Eight months after a federal court approved a $1.5 billion Medicaid fraud settlement -- the second largest in U.S. history -- federal officials have yet to release any of the roughly $125 million owed to Virginia for being the lead investigator.
The Abbott Pharmaceuticals illegal marketing case was investigated for five years by the nationally known Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the office of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Officials have told the office that the Internal Revenue Service has refused to properly fill out post-case paperwork for almost a year, which is holding up the disbursement intended for Virginia law enforcement.
But the delay, which state officials say is unprecedented, has Cuccinelli wondering whether the problem is more about politics than completing paperwork.
"For a long time we thought it was glaring incompetence," Cuccinelli said in an interview. "But in light of the last month or two, we're now beginning to wonder whether maybe there are more deliberate motives."
It is not just Tea Party being targeted.