Posted on 07/01/2025 7:31:42 PM PDT by texas booster
Over $1 Billion in COVID testing fraud alone.
Much as with the previous entry, the $650 million substance abuse treatment scam allegedly run out of Pakistan, we have foreign nationals ripping off our health care system on a truly epic scale.
Here’s a $703 million Pakistani scheme.
Ruknuddin “Rick” Charolia, 43, Aamir Ali Arif, 32, Shearyar Arif, 28, and Fizza Farid, 29, all of Pakistan, were charged by indictment for their roles in a $703 million health care fraud scheme. As alleged in the indictment, they caused the submission of $703,834,742 in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits, durable medical equipment (“DME”), and genetic tests that patients never requested, received, or consented to receive. Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans paid $418,646,326 based on these claims. As further alleged, Charolia and Aamir Ali Arif operated a Pakistan-based call center,
Here’s an $894 million COVID testing fraud scheme.
Dr. Anosh Ahmed, 41, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Mohamed Sirajudeen, 53, of Chicago, Illinois, and Mahmood Sami Khan, 36, and Suhaib Ahmad Chaudhry, 34, both of Houston, Texas, were indicted for their roles in an $894 million fraudulent COVID-19 testing scheme. As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Ahmed, Sirajudeen, and Khan caused clinical laboratories in Illinois and Texas to submit false and fraudulent claims to the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program seeking reimbursement in the amount of approximately $894,520,064 for COVID-19 testing, of which approximately $293,221,468 was paid. Dr. Ahmed was a physician who used patient information obtained from a variety of sources, including a patient list from a hospital where he previously worked, to generate false claims that were submitted through a laboratory in Illinois.
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Jamil Elkoussa, 35, of Lebanon, was charged by indictment with five counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program. As alleged in the indictment, Elkoussa operated Meridian Medical Staffing, which purported to collect specimens for COVID-19 PCR tests at numerous testing sites in Illinois and Florida. Elkoussa caused a laboratory to submit approximately $233 million in fraudulent claims to the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program for COVID-19 PCR tests on specimens purportedly collected from patients, even though Elkoussa knew that such specimens had not been collected from the purported patients, and many of those patients did not exist. ...
And those were only the ones who got caught.
And one more reason to wish Robert Kennedy very good health, as he takes on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. He will need it!
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No one would have ever predicted it. “Thanking you very kindly!”
I wonder how many of these innovators were lined up for Forbes 30 under 30 list. The seem to have a large percentage of under 30 con artists in that list. Sam Bankman Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Caroline Ellison, etc
I’m not “Shocked” …
Pakistanis compete with Somalis for the most corrupt and degraded people in the world
You blame the government for getting so big. Too many opportunities.
‘ Pakistanis compete with Somalis for the most corrupt and degraded people in the world’
🙄
I wonder how they chose to tell some they were COVID-positive versus not.
The whole COVID scam continues to not surprise me.
IT WAS ALL FRAUD.
Ruknuddin “Rick” Charolia, 43, Aamir Ali Arif, 32, Shearyar Arif, 28, and Fizza Farid, 29The one was "Rick", and the others were "Joey", "Marcus," and "Stephen."
That’s right—foreigners stealing the taxpayers money left and right.
They also have money to buy vacant buildings. Where are these poor immigrants getting money to buy property?
More and more, I think guilty verdicts in online & other fraud cases should equal a quick meeting with a short rope.
Mete out justice as they do in Singapore.
I have more respect for a man with a gun in a liquor store than I do for the keyboard fraudsters sitting safely at home.
But aren’t Muslims reverent, honest and peaceful?
“The core tenets of Islam, often called the “precepts” or “pillars” of the faith, are the foundation of Islamic practice and belief. These are the declaration of faith (Shahada), prayer (Salah), almsgiving (Zakat), fasting (Sawm), and pilgrimage (Hajj). These pillars are considered obligatory for all Muslims.”
Others have noted that in shopping malls and centers there are always several hijab wearing mothers with several children, meaning daddy is earning money and mama is spending it. And the vehicles are never rusty ones with smoke out of the tailpipes. Nice SUVs usually.
The fraud these people are engaged in must be monumental.
RE: Illegally using 4 SNAP accounts for fraud....
Did you ever see Around the Bend? Christopher Walken is a con artist. He has a pal who makes phony driver’s licenses.
“Every day is my birthday” he says to his son as he pulls out one of them so the waitress will give him a free lunch and a piece of cake with a candle on it.
Durn fereners are takin’ Mooching to new levels.
I wonder if this would fall under “taqiyya”.
Ain’t diversity grand?
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