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Iowa lawyer accused of defrauding cancer patients and their insurers
Wigington agreed to forfeit $445,455 after prosecutors said she billed insurers for breast prostheses never delivered to 25 patients.
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Iowa lawyer accused of defrauding cancer patients and their insurers
(Main photo by simpson33 via iStock / Getty Images Plus; seal courtesy State of Iowa)A former public defender who won the support of judges and a member of the Iowa Legislature after a 2023 arrest for shoplifting now stands accused of defrauding Medicaid and cancer patients. Attorney Cassi Wigington, who will be sentenced next month on a charge of healthcare fraud, has agreed to pay $445,455 as restitution in the case. That agreement comes 13 mo…
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