The New York Attorney General's office recovered $335 million in Medicaid fraud for taxpayers in 2012.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the money had been improperly claimed through fraud or abuse in the Medicaid system. This was the second-highest annual recovery total every by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and the highest recovery in seven years.

"Part of my first major initiative when I took office was to bolster the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with additional prosecutors, investigators and auditors, in order to even more aggressively root out fraud and return money illegally stolen from New York taxpayers and their government," Schneiderman said.  "That initiative has paid off with record recoveries for taxpayers this year. My office's Medicaid Fraud team will keep working hard to root out fraud wherever it exists, and protect the integrity of the Medicaid program for those who truly need it."