Mayor Arrested for Medicaid Fraud: 75K Stolen

0:00On April 22nd, Windsboro's mayor, 50-year-old Alice Wallace, just got arrested on six counts of Medicaid fraud. State officials say she allegedly pocketed about $75,000 in benefits from 2021 to 2026 by hiding key details like income changes and marital status. The scheme stretched across two phases before and after she stepped into office as mayor back in July 2022. Along with her new city salary and then northeast Louisiana town of roughly 5,000 people, she kept claiming age she no longer qualified for, including not reporting employer health coverage. Attorney General Liz Merle laid it out playing, nobody's exempt from jail time for ripping off Louisiana taxpayers. This bus highlights how Medicaid scams hurt folks who truly need the program for low income support. Investigators from the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation jumped on it after a tip from the health department. Wallace surrendered April 21st, got both Denise Baton Rouge Parish Prison, and she's sitting

1:03there without bond. Her next court date's unclear, but with fraud penalty stacking up fines in prison years, this small town leader's got a tough road ahead. Stay tuned. As it unfolds, from across the country, powered by AI, this is US News Today, I'm Corey with the story.