............Twelve Chicago area medical professionals.... charges against 243 people.....loss amount, $712 million.
Posted on 06/19/2015 1:13:12 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Twelve Chicago area medical professionals have been charged as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud takedown by the U.S. attorney’s office.
The nationwide takedown by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operated in 17 districts and resulted in charges against 243 people, according to the statement.
According to prosecutors, the takedown is the largest in strike force history in terms of the loss amount, $712 million, and the number of defendants charged.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Until the 243 people got caught, I suppose the ones doing the investigation were mockingly called ‘conspiracy theorists’. But now that their suspicions have been proven right, these same people who were conspiracy nuts are now geniuses.
It’s a start.
It’s a start.
See Obamacare is succeeding!
“Omeed Memar falsely diagnosed patients with precancerous lesions, then billed heath insurers for medically unnecessary treatments between 2007 and 2013, according to the statement.”
Well, sure am glad the Muzzies are in on the fraud!
WARNING. Assholes at Suntimes on the link. Pop-up, subscribe, whatever crap. Don’t bother.
............Twelve Chicago area medical professionals.... charges against 243 people.....loss amount, $712 million.
For every one caught there are a hundred more gaming the system. Before my dad died, some company that sells electric wheel chairs got him on through Medicare. This in spite of the fact that his house was far too small and he had no way to transport it from his home to anywhere else. I don’t think he ever used it yet it cost the taxpayers $7000.
Something new to list for Ann Coulter’s last book.
Were they ALL immigrants?
One Floridian was able to pull off eye-popping financial scams mainly by lying about her marital status, bank accounts, and false claims business ownership....using the usual illegal ploys of multiple identities, stolen SS nos, and falsifying official US documents (a felony)
No figures yet on how much she ripped off taxpayers in EITC refunds.
SOURCE--justice.gov: From at least Dec-2003 to Jan-2013, Lopez/Clas used the SSN for “Nereida Valle” to obtain almost $500,000 in federal housing, social security, food, cash, and medical benefits from HUD, SSA, USDA and HHS.
At the same time, she used the SSN for “Gloria Lopes Clas” to obtain mortgage loans and buy real estate in both Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
At various times, her husband, Gonzalez, assisted her in obtaining housing benefits.
As “Gloria Clas,” she sold two Broward properties for a profit of over $200,000. She also purchased over an acre of property in Loxahatchee on which she built an approximately 2,700 square foot residence.
After the residence was built, she received a $200,000 HELOC collateralized by the property, but defaulted on it owing over $150,000.
Valle-Clas, who formally changed her name from “Nereida Valle” to “Gloria Nereida Valle-Clas” in 2003, used approximately 12 aliases in perpetrating the scheme, most of which were variations on “Nereida Valle” and “Gloria Lopes Clas.”
SOURCE:http://www.justice.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/140410-02.html
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FLORIDA TOPS MORTGAGE FRAUD LIST Florida Broker Sentenced to 42 Months for Mortgage Fraud Scheme----October 17, 2012
(Source: FBI) - Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 52, a real estate agent and mortgage broker from Weston, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme relating to properties in the Versailles development in Wellington, Florida.
Rodriguez pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and financial institution fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h).
Over the last five years, more than 30 defendants have been prosecuted for mortgage fraud schemes in the Versailles neighborhood. Most recently, in addition to Rodriguez, eight other individuals have pled guilty and been sentenced in four related mortgage fraud schemes that were centered in Versailles:
According to court documents, the defendants used “straw buyers” to submit false documentation to various mortgage lenders substantially inflating the purchase price of the properties.
As part of the conspiracy, duplicate HUD-1 Settlement Statements were prepared. One set, listing the real price, was provided to the seller; another set, with the inflated price, was provided to the lender.
The fraudulent loan proceeds were then laundered through multiple accounts to conceal the source and distribution of the money and were ultimately used for the benefit of the defendants and their co-conspirators.
Investigative efforts of the FBI, coordinated with IRS-CID, U.S. Secret Service, Florida’s Department of Financial Services and Office of Financial Regulation, FDLE, and the Palm Beach County Mortgage Fraud Task Force.
EXCERPT More at website of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida at www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls.
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US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the payouts totaled $924 million.
This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals.
Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities---falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands. The IRS sent $45 Million (32,000 EITC refunds) to illegals at ONE address.
REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.
Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.
Notice they cut the investigation off at 2007 which was right about the time Moo quit working with the University of Chicago Hospitals.
There was a doctor here who made parents sign a welfare form despite them having private insurance to get vaccines for their kids. If you dared question her, she’d write up lies in the child’s folder that parents weren’t giving their children proper meds and not following doctor’s orders. At the time, there was only a handful of doctors to choose from.... I see she’s here.
EITC - (Earned Income Tax Credit) First proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Ford and increased under every administration since, no exceptions.
That’s great, but the big dollar Medicare fraud is usually perpetrated by medical professionals or medical device providers. Not sure how many of them are illegals.
The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses----for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said NJ state police.
The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot.
The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. After a search, police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.
All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####
Hope she likes Elvis, cause she’s going to be singing Jailhouse Rock.
I’m sorry, but we are going to have to start hanging thieves in this country. There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of jail.
They will be afraid of the Federal big house.
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