Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Tuesday that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds.

Natalie Colette Lewis, 60, of Montgomery, recently pleaded guilty to aggravated theft of property before Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid. Sentencing is set for October 2. Lewis faces up to 30 years imprisonment, a $60,000 fine, and forfeiture of her state retirement benefits.

Lewis had been employed as a medical care benefits specialist, assigned to the Medicaid Agency’s Non-Emergency Transportation Division, since 2006. Lewis had three prior felony convictions when she went to work for the Agency, after lying on her state application for employment by stating that she had no prior convictions. She subseq

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