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Two men charged in $120M adult day care fraud scheme in Queens
The Hill via MSN ^ | February 9, 2026 | Zach Schonfeld

Posted on 02/10/2026 11:08:12 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

The Justice Department accused two men of stealing $120 million from federal health care programs over the course of a decade by bribing patients to enroll in social adult day cares and submit unneeded prescriptions to a pharmacy.

Inwoo Kim, 42, and Daniel Lee, 56, were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They each face up to 10 years in prison.

“Today’s complaint targets those who prey upon the vulnerable so they can steal from American taxpayers and defraud government programs meant to help the public,” A. Tysen Duva, who leads the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a Monday statement.

Kim owns Happy Life and Royal, two social adult day cares in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Lee worked as the centers’ program director.

Charging documents allege the duo began working to submit fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare claims as far back as March 2016. They also purportedly induced patients to submit unneeded prescriptions to a pharmacy Kim used to own.

Patients allegedly received financial incentives, including grocery gift certificates and cash.

“Please give $10,000 to the Korean members first,” Kim wrote in a 2023 text message, according to the complaint.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: atysenduva; crime; daniellee; daycare; fraud; inwookim; newyork; newyorkcity; queens; ripoff
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1 posted on 02/10/2026 11:08:12 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How many people would sit in prison for 8.5 years (good behavior) for 10 million?


2 posted on 02/10/2026 11:10:30 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Its nice to see that welfare fraud is open to all races and nations and not just Somalis

/s


3 posted on 02/10/2026 11:11:43 AM PST by PGR88
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

korean illegals?


4 posted on 02/10/2026 11:12:00 AM PST by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: alternatives?

Not me


5 posted on 02/10/2026 11:13:13 AM PST by Greg123456
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So an hour later you want to be taken care of again?


6 posted on 02/10/2026 11:19:53 AM PST by al baby (I miss that ol windbag )
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To: alternatives?

11% of the average human lifespan gone for 10 million? No way it would be worth it. I also doubt the would be able to keep the money anyway.


7 posted on 02/10/2026 11:20:13 AM PST by posterchild
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Apparently day care was fast track to wealth in the USA. Who knew?!


8 posted on 02/10/2026 11:28:19 AM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

120,000,000 day care. Dang. My sister was an ECE grad and worked day cares. Lucky to get a little above minimum wage back in the 80’s.

My how things have changed.


9 posted on 02/10/2026 11:31:11 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: alternatives?
How many people would sit in prison for 8.5 years (good behavior) for 10 million?

Not a good deal IMHO. Simple mutual fund investing in asset classes like the S&P 500 Index, and Small-cap value more than double in 8.5 years. The arrested 56-year old could have $10 million at age 64 (when he'd get out for good behavior) if he had $5 million now (at age 56). Or $2.5 million at age 48, $1.25 million at age 40, $670K at age 32, or $335K at age 24. It'd be tough for a 24-year old to save up $335K, but it'd be easier than doing prison time.

10 posted on 02/10/2026 11:33:49 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I'm sure the amount of fraud in this country is staggering, and I'd be willing to bet that a fair amount of it was ushered in during the Obama years (and Biden, which was just another Obama term).
11 posted on 02/10/2026 11:42:31 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: alternatives?

Agree. 25 years minimum. Confiscate all belongings and monies they distributed to whomever for “safe keeping” after their theft.


12 posted on 02/10/2026 11:58:16 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: PGR88

Most importantly it is open to big business in the swamp.
New York currently has contracts of about $480 million with DELOITTE for Health, Special Needs, Disability and related.

DELOITTE IES Integrated Eligibility System is the heart that makes this all work. DELOITTE IES EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index is a fraud as it does not meet the definition of a Master Person Index.

Deloitte EMPI has the dead as if they were alive. Deloitte has DUPS. Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith have the same DOB, SSN, address and are the same person. But they have 3 distinct ID for collecting welfare.

The $480 million is NY. DELOITTE IES is in 25 states, mostly the big states CA, TX, GA, FL, IL, PA, NY etc (not MN).

When is DOJ, RFK, OZ going to clean up the contractor fraud of HHS money in the swamp?


13 posted on 02/10/2026 12:09:41 PM PST by spintreebob
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And I am 100% sure that H-1B Indian citizens are actually running these computer systems. There are hundreds of thousands here thanks to Uncle Sam.


14 posted on 02/10/2026 12:30:15 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Major Matt Mason
Investipedia

An interesting table of our debt growth from 1929 - 2025. It's easy to see the massive growth and when. Scroll down a few paragraphs to see the table.

15 posted on 02/10/2026 12:57:07 PM PST by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
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To: Karliner

Assisted living in kansas only pays 10-14 dollars an hour


16 posted on 02/10/2026 1:01:17 PM PST by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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Korean parasite, Inwwoo Kim, stole $120 million tax dollars.

17 posted on 02/10/2026 1:02:41 PM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: jroehl

When I was on the GA voter registration project we used to joke about the few H1b consultants based in CT constantly going to their grandparents funerals...How many grandparents can a person have?

Of course, when they attended meetings from India, we could hear all the coders in the background supplying information to the H1b on the phone from India.

Off Shoring is the natural result of killing Hl1b.


18 posted on 02/10/2026 1:32:53 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Find 2 tall trees
and 'decorate' them...



19 posted on 02/10/2026 1:53:57 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bdfromlv

yes, it’s not a business model to make millions.


20 posted on 02/10/2026 2:00:04 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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