Brenna Bird: “Every time someone commits Medicaid fraud, they are taking funds away from programs that help people who desperately…”

This massive investment is the largest steel plant project in U.S. History. It means over 1,750 good-paying, family-supporting, steel working jobs for Southeast Iowa.

Today, Iowa doesn’t have lawyers that are dedicated to suing these Medicaid fraudsters for the money they took, and the task force is recommending a civil fraud team in my office, something I very much support, to use the Iowa False Claims…

We refuse to accept that.

Adopting this report, too, I want people to know this is not the finish line. This is the starting line. Our message today is unmistakable: Iowa has zero tolerance for anybody who would steal from the taxpayers or exploit vulnerable people…