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State recoups $1 million a year in penalties as many get jail sentences

By Peter Korn of the Portland Tribune
PDXGUIDE.COM
Portland, Oregon Ellyn Sternfield remembers watching the television show 'The Untouchables' growing up. She remembers how the FBI couldn't figure out a way to nail Al Capone on criminal charges ,so they had to get to him through the back door - tax fraud charges on all that illegal money he'd collected.
Sternfield watched, she learned, and today she regularly practices something similar as director of the Oregon Department of Justice's Medicaid Fraud Unit in Portland."