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MO lawmaker convicted of COVID-19 fraud scheme

By U.S. Department of Justice
| June 29, 2022

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. –- A Missouri state representative was convicted by a federal trial jury Tuesday for a nearly $900,000 COVID-19 fraud scheme, as well as a separate $200,000 fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a fake stem cell treatment marketed through her clinics in southern Missouri, and for illegally providing prescription drugs to clients of those clinics.

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