ew York's roughly $116 billion Medicaid program by attacking fraud within the system, which is meant to provide healthcare benefits to low-income residents.

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But one of her signature efforts, an overhaul of the state's consumer-directed home care program, or CDPAP, was rigged, federal prosecutors allege.

Hochul's administration has denied wrongdoing and moved to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by the Trump administration and targeting it earlier this year.

- Additional reporting by Joe Marino