Former Public Defender Sentenced for Medicaid Fraud Scheme

A former public defender and Iowa-licensed attorney, Cassi Wigington, has been sentenced to five months in prison for healthcare fraud. A federal grand jury in Nebraska charged her in June after prosecutors alleged that, beginning in 2012, she fraudulently sold medical equipment including custom-made breast prosthetic devices to cancer patients and billed Medicaid for the scheme. The case was prosecuted in federal court, and the sentencing closes out the criminal proceedings against her.

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