Lexicon

Terms a reader needs. The program names are the ones that get conflated; keep them apart.

Appendix B: Swanson's August 24 2018 email, printed in the March 2019 OLA review.
CACFP / SFSP: USDA meal programs, administered by the Department of Education. The 2020–2022 case.
CCAP: Child Care Assistance Program. The 2018 file. State and federal subsidy so low-income parents can work.
Charged dollars: Indictments, pleas, restitution. The floor. Not the file.
Claims file: The CMS pull of the 14 programs Minnesota had marked high-risk. Thompson's basis.
Credible allegation of fraud: The federal standard (42 CFR 455.23) under which a state Medicaid agency must suspend payments to a provider pending investigation unless it documents good cause not to.
D1-710: Trial exhibit. Ellison recording, Dec 11 2021, 54:44. Not offered by the defense.
EIDBI: Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention. The autism waiver.
HSS: Housing Stabilization Services. Ended October 31 2025. Repealed 2026.
ICS: Integrated Community Supports.
Intended loss vs. actual loss: Intended loss is what the scheme tried to take; actual loss is what was paid. Charging documents quote one or the other. Restitution follows actual loss.
OIG: Office of Inspector General. DHS has one inside the agency; HHS and USDA have federal ones. They are not the same office.
OLA: Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. Reports to the Legislature, not to the agencies it reviews.
Payment withhold / stop-pay: An administrative hold on reimbursement. A withhold is not a charge; it is the lever that stops the loss while the investigation runs.
Primary: On this site: the root source. A recording, a filing, an order, a release. Not an article about one.
R2 verified: Full SHA on files.fraudminnesota.com. Not a Range-header check.
Restitution: The amount a sentencing court orders repaid to victims. It is a court-record number about one defendant. It is not a measure of the program.
Sponsor / site: In the meal programs, a sponsor is the organization that enrolls and claims; a site is a location it says it fed children at.
Stop-pay: A hold on reimbursement. MDE lifted its own. Guthmann did not order it lifted.
Three-dot: Share root source, share this page, context, copy citation.
Waiver: A state option under Medicaid that pays for home- and community-based services outside the standard benefit. Minnesota's fastest-growing fraud programs are waivers.
Wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering: 18 U.S.C. 1343, 1349, 1956 and 1957. The workhorse federal charges in these cases.