A mayor has been arrested and charged with Medicaid fraud by Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill.
Murrill said Winnsboro Mayor Alice Wallace, 50, of Robinson Drive, was arrested on April 21 and booked into the East Baton Rouge Prison. No bond has been set.
Wallace is charged with six counts of government benefits fraud in what Murrill described as a Medicaid fraud scheme in which the mayor illegal secured $75,000 in benefits from 2021 through 2026.
“It doesn’t matter who you are — if you defraud the hardworking taxpayers of Louisiana, you’re going to jail," Murrill said in a statement.
Murrill said her Louisiana Bureau of Investigation special agents conducted the investigation after Louisiana Department of Health officials referred the allegations to Murrill's agency.
