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One of the highest-ranking officials in Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration was involved in the decision to cancel a 2020 audit that threatened to expose how a º£½Ç»»ÆÞ eye doctor with powerful political connections had billed the state’s Medicaid program for procedures she never performed, documents show.

The charges are first to emerge from a sprawling investigation of ballot fraud in the 2023 Democratic race between Joe Ganim and John Gomes.

Helen Zervas admitted to paying $95,000 to an OPM official and state legislator to end an audit of her Medicaid overpayments.