Posted on 12/22/2020 3:21:50 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The owners of over a dozen New York-area pharmacies were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a $30 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they exploited emergency codes and edits in the Medicare system that went into effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to submit fraudulent claims for expensive cancer drugs that were never provided, ordered, or authorized by medical professionals.
Peter Khaim, 40, and Arkadiy Khaimov, 37, both of Forest Hills, New York, each were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Khaim was separately charged with two counts of concealment money laundering and one count of aggravated identity theft. Khaimov was separately charged with two counts of concealment money laundering.
“These defendants allegedly lined their own pockets by exploiting Medicare flexibilities that were designed to ensure that patients obtained access to needed medications during the COVID-19 crisis,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Together with our law enforcement partners, the Criminal Division is working to aggressively identify, investigate, and prosecute scammers who seek to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to defraud our public health care programs.”
“As alleged in the indictment, the defendants manipulated information in over a dozen pharmacies to defraud the Medicare program, including by taking advantage of systems that were intended to assist patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then went to great lengths to hide their ill-gotten gains through a network of sham companies,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Set D. DuCharme of the Eastern District of New York..... .
(Excerpt) Read more at justice.gov ...
Well why the hell not? Yestetday our elected reps in DC pulled the same scam.
Go for it. There is no more Rule of Law.
PS
30 mil?
Chump change.
Russian mobsters
Amateurs, you are suppose to spread the money around, you fools
Donations to the DNC
‘rat candidates
‘rat super packs
hire a ‘rat’s son or daughter to manage the money
‘rat mayor
hire a ‘rat’s friend to do a remodel on your pharmacy
and a phone call would have been made to end whatever investigation that was in process....
Dummies
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