Keith Ellison, Minnesota attorney general. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Minnesota Attorney General's Office confirmed to Axios that it laid off 17 employees yesterday as part of a restructuring.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Keith Ellison did not say how many of them are attorneys. The cuts amount to about 4% of the 443 people who worked there prior to the layoffs.
What they're saying: "That restructuring will not impact ongoing litigation," spokesperson Brian Evans wrote in a statement.
Evans also said the cuts won't affect the AG's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which received $1.23 million in annual funding last session to tackle fraud that has plagued Minnesota's social service programs.
Ellison's office yesterday charged seven defendants with defrauding Medicaid programs of $700,000.
