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Associated Press: Illinois fails to recoup $76 million in Medicaid overpayments
Two state audits have found that Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration paid $76 million to Medicaid insurers that wasn’t owed them.
Auditor General Frank Mautino conducted the reviews of the Departments of Human Services and Healthcare and Family Services . They were released last week. They also found that $71 million in Medicaid reimbursements were paid out for clients whose eligibility hadn’t been confirmed.
Northwest Herald: Algonquin-based District 300 lays off 15 employees
The Algonquin-based Community School District 300 Board unanimously approved laying off 15 employees.
Superintendent Fred Heid said the layoffs were caused by a number of reasons and is a customary practice for all school districts for nontenured faculty.
Belleville News-Democrat: Township corruption readily surfaces, so deep criminal audit needed
Federal investigators took a $230,000 theft chronicled on a government American Express card and could only come up with $40,000 in actual thievery to send former East St. Louis Township supervisor Oliver W. Hamilton to the penitentiary for five years.
Well guess what? Two reporters with no background in forensic accounting just uncovered another $40,000 diverted by Hamilton. He used that amount from a state summer jobs grant, intended for the kids to perform conservation work, to have 13 teens work for his private construction company.