Hamas financiers and their families arrested for $224,000 in Medicaid fraud

Five St. Tammany Parish residents were arrested for defrauding the Louisiana Medicaid Program of more than $224,000 announced the Office of Attorney General Liz Murrill on Oct. 8 .

Two of the suspects also face federal charges for providing more than $100,000 to a terrorist financing network that funneled more than $1.7 million to help fund Hamas.

Evidence discovered during a joint federal and state…