A tactic once mentioned by Andrew Cuomo to fight Medicaid fraud is “weak-kneed,” Republican candidate for attorney general Jeanine Pirro told a group of business leaders at a meeting Friday.
Cuomo has suggested the state should look at establishing an amnesty period that would allow those who have cheated the Medicaid system, which pays for the health care of poor people, to pay back what they have stolen and escape prosecution. Pirro said that’s not a strong-enough approach.
“I think amnesty is a weak-kneed idea,” she said.
