Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds. Natalie Colette Lewis, 60, of Montgomery, pleaded guilty to Aggravated Theft of Property before Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid. Lewis had been employed as a Medical Care Benefits Specialist, assigned to the Medicaid Agency’s Non-Emergency Transportation Division, since 2006. Lewis had three prior felony convictions when she went to work for the Agency, after lying on her state application for employment by stating that she had no prior convictions. She subsequently received a restoration of rights pardon in 2017 for those convictions. While employed at the Agency, Lewis was responsible for processing claims to reimburse Medicaid recipients for expenses incurred for their travel to medical visits. From December 2019 to November 2024, Lewis entered 1,631 claims for transportation expenses on behalf of her son, a Medicaid recipient, for medical appointments that never took place. In total, Lewis received $103,413.26 for these fraudulent claims and spent the money on personal expenditures.