Medicaid office offers 'how-to' for 'fraudster'

'Drug dealers' applying for Medicaid

Undercover journalist James O'Keefe has captured video of a Virginia Medicaid office offering tips on how to submit a fraudulent application, just as the state of Ohio announced a retraining program for all of its county human services workers after O'Keefe caught workers advising a man who described himself as a drug dealer.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said his Medicaid fraud unit will look into the circumstances, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

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In the previous video, O'Keefe shows an undercover volunteer going to several state offices seeking Medicaid benefits. The volunteer describes himself as a drug dealer and tells workers he has an $800,000 car and a young sister working as a prostitute.

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State worker Traci Daniels tells the man posing as a drug dealer, "I just wouldn't mention it."

Now, in another major release from O'Keefe's ProjectVeritas.com, a video shows a Medicaid office worker in Richmond, Va., telling an undercover volunteer, "Don't put that on there," as he describes a prostitution and drug operation:

O'Keefe told WND the results were troubling.

He said the woman was advising how to submit a Medicaid application that essentially was fraudulent, despite a warning on the form itself that anyone "knowingly" giving false, incorrect or incomplete information could be arrested.

The "applicant" was told "not to put down the drug business and prostitution" on the application form and even was assured that there would be no searches of his home, where he said "shipments" were stored.

"We won't get in trouble for like running the drug business or like illegal prostitution?" the undercover actor asked.

"No, you just leave that off your application," said the worker, who was identified as Shirley Muir.

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The "applicant" had raised questions about the form's requirement to list assets.

"We were concerned about putting our assets down on the form," he said, explaining the family had an $800,000 McLaren F-1, a yacht, helipad and other luxury items.

"This is egregious," O'Keefe said. "It has to be seen and heard to be believed."

When the undercover volunteer says that young girls, some illegally in the country, do "sexual favors" to "help business," the response is "Uh-huh."

The previous video:

When the Ohio documentation was released, the Dispatch reported, orders were handed down for all county human-services workers to undergo training to ensure they can identify fraud.

The report said Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Michael B. Colbert told 88 county leaders of the mandatory training.

According to O'Keefe's Project Veritas website, the case workers encountered in Ohio "never called the police, Child Protective Services or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In fact, the case workers appear eager to assist the reporters in filling out the necessary Medicaid paperwork."

As WND reported, O'Keefe and his associate, Hannah Giles, produced a series of revealing reports shot undercover at offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform, or ACORN, in which workers consented to help the pair, posing as a pimp and prostitute, use grants and programs to help establish their business, avoid IRS complications and more.

The exposé helped put ACORN's illegal and unethical operations in the spotlight, prompting Congress to remove the organization's federal funding, which in turn resulted in ACORN filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Election Day last year.