Philip Degnan, the state comptroller and a nominee for a state Superior Court judgeship, is accused in a whistleblower suit of signing off on a controversial amnesty program for Medicaid fraud defendants.

Degnan gave his approval in January 2017 to a plan allowing dozens of defendants from Lakewood’s Orthodox Jewish community to resolve Medicaid fraud charges by paying far less than the amounts they owed, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Mercer County Superior Court by a fired investigator in the office, Andrew Poulos.

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