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A top state official tasked with tackling Medicaid fraud took improper gifts from a government contractor he was overseeing, according to a state inspector general’s report released Thursday.

Joseph Flora, himself a former director in the state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, accepted thousands of dollars in meals, booze, a trip and then a job offer from Health Management Systems, a company with a $120 million state contract.

Flora allegedly accepted the improper gifts while he directly oversaw the HMS pact. At the same time, he also gave testimonials on behalf of HMS to other state officials.

Flora, until his forced retirement in 2014, had overseen HMS’s work for the state since 2006.

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