Yes, they were duped. I watched her interview on The View. She and her mother moved after Hurricane Katrina and her mother told doctors all of her medical records were lost.
JMO
Wow, it would take something like that to commit this type of massive fraud. No way to produce documents that aren’t available.
The medical community there was severely affected. It was chaotic and it took a long while to recover logistically on many levels. Those factors provided the best circumstances for Dee Dee’s fraudulent schemes.