A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents onto the streets. The emergency declaration was issued 2 weeks ago by the Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency Management. It was signed last week by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren. The documents are posted on the Facebook page of the tribe’s Operation Rainbow Bridge created to deal with the scam’s effects on enrolled members.
Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses (CNB), announced it has been ranked on the Bloomberg Government’s list of the top 200 federal contractors for the third consecutive year. Rankings for the 12 th annual BGOV200 are based on fiscal year 2022 data for unclassified, prime contracts awarded across all U.S. federal government agencies. This is the third time Cherokee Federal has ranked on the Bloomberg list of top federal contractors.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
