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SoCal woman guilty of $359 million fraud targeting federal healthcare program
KTLA ^ | October 5, 2023 | Vivian Chow

Posted on 10/05/2023 9:08:40 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A Glendale woman was convicted of a $359 million fraud scheme targeting federal healthcare programs.

The woman was identified as Lourdes Navarro, 64, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


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$359 million! She outdid Fauci
1 posted on 10/05/2023 9:08:40 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Whats wrong with her. You take the first $10 million and run.


2 posted on 10/05/2023 9:12:11 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It never rains in sunny Alberta. It always rains in rainy Alberta.)
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To: artichokegrower

It’s just that easy. Are these programs designed to be easy to defraud?


3 posted on 10/05/2023 9:17:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“It’s just that easy. Are these programs designed to be easy to defraud?”

Yes. I remember IBM offered free software to detect fraud in I believe Medicare. It was turned down.


4 posted on 10/05/2023 9:28:38 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: nickcarraway

What was that figure on the Covid reimbursement fraud schemes?
And headlines about a Detroit man who stayed on 19 welfare account names for years before being caught.

Detroit Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring with Former State ...
Department of Justice (.gov)
July 11, 2023 — DETROIT – A Detroit resident pleaded guilty today to engaging in an extensive unemployment fraud conspiracy with a former State of Michigan ....

But this guy’s measly fraud of $319,210 seems like pocket change:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/04/05/detroit-man-sentence-to-prison-for-hacking-into-bank-accounts-stealing-300k/70086505007/


5 posted on 10/05/2023 9:35:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: artichokegrower

She did, indeed.


6 posted on 10/05/2023 9:35:42 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: artichokegrower

Lourdes Navarro and Imran Shams?

Yet more imported foreign nationals committing fraud?


7 posted on 10/05/2023 9:43:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: artichokegrower

I do not think she made 359 million.
Government lost 359 millions, she made part of that money.
It is not very clear who did what. It is clear, that Some unnecessary tests were performed.


8 posted on 10/05/2023 10:21:44 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: artichokegrower

So will she, like men who do this financial level of crime, also spend the rest of her life in jail?

Of course not, since the usa is a gynocracy.


9 posted on 10/05/2023 11:29:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

Charlene mccray deblasio, former NY mayor deblasios wife got her beat, Her mentla health initiative, 880 million GONE and she doesn’t know where it went and no one was interested in finding out


10 posted on 10/06/2023 1:57:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: rxh4n1

It probably justifies far more bureaucracy to just disburse the funds and deal with any fraud in oversight. With the added advantage of overlooking any fraud that may have the blessing of higher-ups.


11 posted on 10/06/2023 4:23:22 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway

It’s just more of the looting of the public treasury. This is going on on a daily basis, and no one in the vast bureaucracies is ever held accountable. Is it any wonder why the theft continues?


12 posted on 10/06/2023 4:34:13 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: artichokegrower

Wow. If I stole $10 or $10,000...I’m just an idiot that will probably get caught. Just not worth it.

If I steal $350,000,000...I’m moving to a country that doesn’t have an extradition arrangement with the USA.


13 posted on 10/06/2023 6:56:51 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: artichokegrower

She had help, from last year...

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit/case-summaries


14 posted on 10/06/2023 6:59:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Also from last year...

https://www.laboratoryeconomics.com/california-lab-owners-indicted-for-214-million-medicare-test-fraud/

And note this bit...

“...Furthermore, the DOJ says that Shams fraudulently concealed his role at Matias and his prior criminal convictions. Shams had been excluded from all participation in Medicare since being convicted in 2000 for felony grand theft related to Medicare and Medi-Cal billing fraud....”

Deep State didn’t look too hard, did it.


15 posted on 10/06/2023 7:00:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Was this fraud...

...or money laundering...


16 posted on 10/06/2023 7:01:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
I read the names at the link you provided. Did you notice?

All these crooks don't sound so American to me-
Imran Shams
Lourdes Navarro
Artur Chanchikyan
Jason Costanza
Juli Mazi
(Though cough cough, pardon me - The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Babu Kaza of the National Rapid Response Strike Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Katie Lloyd-Lovett of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.)
Ranna Shamiya
Ron K. Elfenbein
Elizabeth Mercedes Hernandez
Jason Edward Lopez
Abid Syed, Tariq Din, Tamer Mohamed, Abdul Rauf, Tauqir Khan, and Nisim Davydov

All crooks...

17 posted on 10/06/2023 8:34:04 AM PDT by spankalib
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