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Lillian Kaye Simiskey was sentenced to a year in jail for tax fraud and fraudulently obtaining funds from Medicaid.

She is ordered to pay nearly $2.7 million in restitution.

Simiskey submitted over 7,700 fraudulent Medicaid claims from 2019 to 2022, charges state.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman convicted of tax fraud and abusing the Medicaid system has been sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay almost $2.7 million in restitution.

Lillian Kaye Simiskey, 41, pleaded guilty last week in 3rd District Court to a pattern of unlawful activity, a second-degree felony, plus tax evasion and public assistance fraud, third-degree felonies.

Charges of false claims for medical benefits and three more counts of tax evasion, second-degree felon

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