Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented "a good opportunity to make money.

Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud, Thompson said. Two defendants pocketed $750,000 instead of helping Medicaid recipients find stable housing, he said. Prosecutors allege they used the proceeds to travel to international destinations, including London, Istanbul and Dubai.

Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown are accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $3.5 million in government proceeds in a widening scandal that has been criticized by President Donald Trump.

Federal prosecutors announced new indictments Thursday in the widening Minnesota fraud scandal, this time involving two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to the state.

The Wonewok Conference Center on Big Mantrap Lake, just north of Park Rapids, Minn., is a 180-foot-long, pine log lodge with six cottages built in 1929. 3M purchased it in 1955 and operated the retreat for 70 years. It closed and went up for sale in 2023.

Some $9 billion in Medicaid claims paid out in Minnesota could be fraudulent, according to a federal prosecutor involved with the probe. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said that possibly more than half of $18 billion paid out in the midwestern state to at least 14 programs may have been fraudulent, the Associated Press reported.

Federal prosecutors say a 28-year-old Minnesota woman claiming to provide services to treat children with autism stole $14 million in Medicaid funds. But state records obtained by WCCO show that her company,

In September, Freeborn County Sheriff Ryan Shea told the Minnesota Star Tribune he signed a partnership because it would save ICE agents a trip if the county held onto people they