SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — A South Portland personal care company, its owner and five of its employees face federal charges accusing them of billing MaineCare for in-home care that a client never got, the Portland Press Herald reported.

The indictment was unsealed on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 27, according to the Press Herald. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine said six people had been arrested and planned to discuss the case at a news conference with federal agencies, including the FBI and the IRS, the Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News reported.

Before that news conference, the office said the company, Community Home Health Care LLC, is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from MaineCare, the state's Medicaid program, both outlets reported. Prosecutors allege the bills covered personal care services for a single client that were never delivered, the Press Herald reported.

The charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent. The Press Herald said it could not immediately reach lawyers for the company on Tuesday morning.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services says the agency was among five whose Medicaid payments the state halted in January, according to the Press Herald, which was the only outlet reviewed to report the suspension.

The Press Herald also reported that in October, the Maine Attorney General's criminal division mistakenly sent reporters a list of matters. That list showed state prosecutors were still waiting to learn what federal prosecutors intended to do, criminally or civilly, about another agency, Maine Connect Care, and a separate behavioral health provider the department had acted against, the newspaper reported.

The charges follow months of claims by the Trump administration that Maine has not done enough to stop MaineCare fraud, the Bangor Daily News reported. Vice President JD Vance visited Maine on May 14. Gov. Janet Mills' administration says the state has strong tools to detect fraud, according to the Bangor Daily News, which identified the U.S. attorney for Maine as Andrew Benson.