The federal investigation into alleged fraud surrounding Oregon’s failed healthcare exchange website continues to pick up pace, and federal investigators have subpoenaed information from state officials regarding the development of the website, the Oregonian reports:
The investigation, led by federal prosecutors and the FBI, is seeking documents, memos, and emails between the two state entities that oversaw the botched health exchange with U.S. authorities in charge of dispensing federal money for the project.
Oregon has spent $250 million and three years on an ambitious IT project that failed to produce a fully functional exchange. Instead, what was produced was bug-ridden and largely unfinished, documents show. […]
Among other things, the FBI seems to be interested in whether state officials misled their federal counterparts about progress on the exchange in order to get more federal funding. The FBI has asked for all communications between the state and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the so-called "gate reviews," in which federal officials supposedly quizzed state officials about the status of the IT project.
The Government Accountability Office is also conducting an investigation of the Cover Oregon website.