In the summer of 2024, an investigator reached out to Floodlights to warn us about a Medicaid fraud scheme targeting people on reservations. Today, that investigator is interviewed under the name of "Liza."

In this episode, Liza explains how organized groups are actively working to trick vulnerable people on reservations who want to get sober. The scheme, which essentially defrauds Medicaid for millions if not billions of dollars, offers fake sober living facilities to people who are suffering from addiction.

Liza walks us through how the fraud scheme works and the warning signs that people should look for if they're approached by "representatives" claiming to work for sober living facilities. She also touches upon the reservation system at large, human trafficking and the potential correlation between this Medicaid fraud scheme and missing people cases.

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