A Maryland woman who worked as a community support worker for a District behavioral health provider has been indicted on charges that she billed D.C.’s Medicaid program for services she did not provide, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced.
Camille Aba, 32, was indicted Oct. 28 in D.C. Superior Court on 18 counts of first-degree felony fraud, 18 counts of first-degree theft, one count of first-degree misdemeanor fraud and one count of second-degree theft, according to the office’s announcement. The case number is 2026 CF2 001478. A felony status conference is set for Dec. 16, and no trial date has been set.
An indictment is an allegation. Aba is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
What prosecutors allege
According to the government, Aba worked for Family Wellness Center as a community support worker from 2022 to 2023, a job that involved providing support services to Medicaid beneficiaries who were clients of the provider. Prosecutors allege she committed fraud and theft by submitting falsified claims to Family Wellness Center, causing the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance, the city’s Medicaid agency, to pay more than $109,000 for services she did not provide.
The announcement does not allege wrongdoing by Family Wellness Center.
How the case began
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the Department of Health Care Finance began looking into Aba’s billing after The Washington Post published a story about a suspect accused of shooting two people on a D.C. bus. According to prosecutors, Aba claimed she had provided services to that man days before the shooting, then later changed her notes to say she had not spoken with him.
On further investigation, prosecutors said, investigators found that she had not provided services to the shooting suspect and had also failed to provide services to numerous other beneficiaries.
Who is handling it
The case was investigated by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the D.C. Office of the Inspector General and the Major Crimes Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Monroe is prosecuting. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro announced the indictment, joined by Matthew Wilcoxson, the District’s interim inspector general.
In the District, the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutes serious local offenses committed by adults, including D.C. Code fraud and theft charges like these, in D.C. Superior Court, as well as federal crimes.
The administration’s fraud push
The office placed the case within the Justice Department’s broader focus on benefits fraud. The announcement noted that the department created a National Fraud Enforcement Division on April 7, and that its anti-fraud work supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a government-wide effort chaired by Vice President JD Vance to root out fraud, waste and abuse in federal benefit programs.
The department’s Health Care Fraud Strike Force program, which now has nine strike forces in federal districts nationwide, has charged more than 6,200 defendants who collectively billed federal health care programs and private insurers more than $45 billion since 2007, according to the announcement.
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