A Las Vegas judge on Monday ordered a jail sentence and payment of $7.5 million in restitution and costs for a woman who admitted to Medicaid fraud .

Ariell Dix pleaded guilty last month to counts of Medicaid fraud, attempted racketeering and obtaining and using the personal identifying information of an older person for an unlawful purpose.

District Judge Maria Gall sentenced Dix to probation with 364 days in the Clark County Detention Center and ordered her to pay $6 million in restitution and $1.5 million to the Nevada attorney general’s office for costs.

The defendant, defense attorney Chris Rasmussen and Senior Deputy Attorney General Behnaz Molina offered no statements to the court.

Dix is an inmate in the Arizona prison system, where she is serving another sentence for Medicaid

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