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Mary Beth Pfeiffer - The Poughkeepsie Journal

WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Published September 11, 2012 at 12:40 PM EDT

A congressional committee has been looking into why the federal government overpaid New York State by more than $10 billion for the care of developmentally disabled people in state developmental centers. Congress began its probe after reports in the Poughkeepsie Journal. Mary Beth Pfeiffer, projects writer with the journal, says even though the overpayments were first detected in 2007, they still continued. She spoke with WAMC’s Brian Shields.
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