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Latham taxi companies charged in $6.5B national Medicaid fraud bust
News Channel 13 ^ | 6.23.26 | Sarah Darmanjian

Posted on 06/25/2026 10:48:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro

ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Five local arrests in Latham are tied to a national health care fraud crackdown centered in part on alleged Medicaid transportation fraud.

Related: Former CFO admits to stealing $4M from Albany electrical firm

Federal officials said June 23 that five people were arrested locally and four federal search warrants were carried out. The case included two taxi companies, Carl’s Cab and Latham Taxi, and a search warrant at a home on Glendale Road in Latham.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: medicaidfraud; newyork

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If Letitia James weren't so fixated on getting Trump, she would be finding this massive fraud going on in New York.
1 posted on 06/25/2026 10:48:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Right on.


2 posted on 06/25/2026 10:50:15 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: 1Old Pro

Sounds like what Sunny Hostin’s hubby was involved in.


3 posted on 06/25/2026 10:52:11 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: 1Old Pro

They have to stop Rubber Stamping every document they see ,LOL


4 posted on 06/25/2026 10:52:49 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Amazing that we provide literally trillions with apparently no accounting strings attached. How can this be...


5 posted on 06/25/2026 10:54:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Tommy Revolts

If the state attorney general isn’t ferreting out government fraud, then they aren’t doing their job.


6 posted on 06/25/2026 10:55:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

These stories keep coming and coming. Here’s the way it evidently works.

Scammer: I just provided $5 million worth of services.
Government: Okey-dokey. Here’s your check.

No oversight or verification of any kind.

At least people are being arrested now. But it will certainly be back to business as usual once a D again occupies the White House.


7 posted on 06/25/2026 10:58:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: 1Old Pro

I bet our entire national debt since 2008 (what happened that year?) is due to fraud and corruption.


8 posted on 06/25/2026 10:59:37 AM PDT by CFW
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Scammer: I just provided $5 million worth of services. Government: Okey-dokey. Here’s your check.

The only wat to insure accountability is for the fraud to be paid back to taxpayers from the government employee pension fund. It would stop immediately.

9 posted on 06/25/2026 11:00:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: CFW
I bet our entire national debt since 2008 (what happened that year?) is due to fraud and corruption.

Certainly a large percentage of it.

10 posted on 06/25/2026 11:01:31 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Leaning Right

No oversight if you’re one of the favored.


11 posted on 06/25/2026 11:02:35 AM PDT by cherry
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No oversight if you’re one of the favored.

And you become favored by voting Democrat.

12 posted on 06/25/2026 11:03:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Ya, seems to be the pattern lately.


13 posted on 06/25/2026 11:06:07 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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Latham Taxi is owned by Muhammad Zishan, 48, of Albany County; Madiha Javed, 34, of Rensselaer County; and Ghazali Shaikh, 20, of Warren County.

https://www.dailygazette.com/spotlightnews/news/crime/latham-taxi-service-fraud/article_93ffe880-ef7a-4673-93f0-a7eed881cf2f.html


14 posted on 06/25/2026 11:10:08 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: 1Old Pro

The headline implies that the taxi company stole $6.5 billion. In reality if was 455 enitities across the country being alledged to have copped the $6.5 billion.


15 posted on 06/25/2026 11:12:59 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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Regarding well established big city taxi companies, I heard that they are owned and controlled by the Chicago mafia. The mafia would never stoop to scamming the US Government, would they? /s


16 posted on 06/25/2026 11:13:44 AM PDT by drypowder
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Muhammad Zishan, 48, of Albany County; Madiha Javed, 34, of Rensselaer County; and Ghazali Shaikh, 20,

Yep, big surprise here

17 posted on 06/25/2026 11:21:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Steven Scharf

agreed, poor headline


18 posted on 06/25/2026 11:21:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Labyrinthos

A TRIO OF NICE IRISH BOYS, I SEE.


19 posted on 06/25/2026 12:12:10 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Medicare thieves Muhammad Zishan, 48, Madiha Javed, 34,
and Ghazali Shaikh, 20, sound like they’re Iranian Muslims.


20 posted on 06/25/2026 12:15:19 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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