Posted on 06/18/2026 6:56:23 PM PDT by CFW
A prominent Pakistani-American businessman who spent years cozying up to powerful Democrats stands accused of being part of a $38 million Medicaid scam.
Civic leader and well-known Brooklyn Community Board 13 member Pervez Siddiqui, 78, was arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators.
They are alleged to have run a large-scale Medicaid kickback and false-billing scheme through two social adult day care (SADC) centers in Brooklyn: APNA Adult Daycare and Ashiana Social Adult Daycare.
The scam ran from 2019 through December 2025, feds allege, with seniors being signed up for day cares that they rarely or never attended, then getting a cut of the Medicaid payment.
“Marketers are going around looking for the Medicaid card. They stop people on the street, at bus stops. They go into doctors’ offices. They go into NYCHA [government housing] where they know people are low-income. They ask, ‘Do you have a Medicaid card?’” a source with knowledge of the investigation told The Post.
Siddiqui, who owns around 15 pharmacies in New Jersey, is prolific in local political circles and a regular donor to Democratic campaigns, sometimes shelling out over $10,000 a pop to local candidates, records show. And through his ties to another group, he scored an intimate sit-down with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in December 2025, pictures obtained by The Post show.
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Oh boy they’re in trouble now just like those “learing center” scammers that I haven’t heard one peep about or the endless social security scammers claiming they are 150 years old not one peep about.
“Does anyone think Mandami doesn’t have his hands in one of the fraud schemes”?
Seems like NYers all don’t think that but I hope I’m wrong on that one.
Isn’t there any oversight at all with these federal programs?
No inspectors? No surprise visits?
I guess not.
If not for Nick Shirly and David Hoch they would have gotten away with it.
Seems like there ought to be a federal investigatory agency whose job it would be to investigate criminal activity.
Too bad we don’t have one.
Pakistanis & Somalis…. the scummiest of the scummiest.
Pakiscammy and So-mal-me’s
He's part of a $38 million Medicaid scam---Brooklyn Community Board member
Pervez Siddiqui, 78, (shown) a Paki, was arrested along with seven co-conspirators.
Arrested? Eh?
APNA Adult Daycare nor Ashiana Social Adult Daycare were originally founded to support the South Asian and immigrant communities in Brooklyn....many of whom emanate from Pakistan.
The scam ran from 2019 through December 2025, with seniors being signed up for day cares that they rarely or never attended, then getting a cut of the Medicaid payment.
The scammers obsessively recruited people into the scheme to steal tax dollars.......going around looking for Medicaid cards, stopping people on the street, at bus stops, in doctors’ offices, government housing w/ low-income types.......asking, ‘Do you have a Medicaid card?’”
Brooklyn Community Board member and Democrat suck-up Pakistanian, Pervez Siddiqui,
arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators, knew the Medicare ropes only too well.
Siddiqui, (shown above) owns around 15 NJ pharmacies, is active in local political circles and is a big buck Dem donor, sometimes shelling out over $10,000 a pop to local Democrat candidates.
And through his monied political ties, he scored an intimate sit-down with Communist
Zohran Mamdani in December 2025, pictures obtained by The NY Post show.
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Brooklyn Community Board member and Democrat suck-up Pakistanian, Pervez Siddiqui, arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators, knew the Medicare ropes only too well. Siddiqui, (shown above) owns around 15 NJ pharmacies.
The abuse of pharmacy benefits is among the most prevalent of fraudulent activities in healthcare. Fraudulent activities across every sector of healthcare are nothing new. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid fraud alone costs taxpayers estimated billions of dollars annually, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
No one really knows the actual amount of money lost to fraudulent activities, but that’s not the point. The real problem is cracking down on acts of fraud, which is often difficult considering that both the patients and healthcare organizations contribute to the problem one way or another.
Problems have become so widespread that there’s now a Medicare Fraud Strike Force tasked to hunt and take down anyone engaged in fraud. Medicare also provided information and procedures in reporting fraud, outlining the details required to file a report—such as dates and receipts and which numbers to call. Customers, patients, and employees are urged to report against fraudulent activities if they suspect it or when they have been a victim of it.
The Hows of Pharmacy Medicare Fraud
Among the many fraudulent activities in the healthcare sector, abuse of pharmacy benefits is the most prevalent. In fact, many pharmacy owners and employees have been arrested for their participation in pharmacy Medicare fraud schemes. The largest takedown happened in 36 Federal Districts, including New York, where a pharmacist was accused of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by more than $50 million. But how do pharmacists get away with it?
Different Pharmacy Medicare Fraud Schemes
Auto-refilling pharmacy fraud
This happens when a prescription is automatically filled, even when a patient did not request a refill. Without the patient’s knowledge, the pharmacy will then bill Medicare for prescriptions that patients never picked up. They do the same with Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), Medicaid, and TRICARE. Because the prescriptions are still in store, they can rinse and repeat and get away with it.
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Have him pay a big fine...then DEPORT his sorry ASS!!
WHY THE F DO I EVEN WORK! Democrats have done everything in their power to put me out of business and won when I shut down last month. Then they import these garbage savages from the turd world and reward them with tax dollars. GD degenerate criminals. A pox on them all.
Brooklyn Community Board member and Democrat suck-up Pakistanian, Pervez Siddiqui,
arrested with seven co-conspirators, knows the Medicare fraud ropes only too well.
Siddiqui, (shown above) owns around 15 NJ pharmacies.
L/E needs to determine what he knows about pharmacy Medicare frauds.
Pharmacy Medicare fraud occurs when pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), or related entities deliberately deceive the Medicare program to receive unearned, inflated government reimbursements.The most common types of pharmacy-related Medicare fraud schemes include:
1. Billing for Medication Never Dispensed (”Phantom Billing”) A pharmacy bills Medicare Part D for a drug that the patient never picked up, requested, or was prescribed. Pharmacies keep the medication on the shelf to resell it while pocketing the government reimbursement. The Department of Justice resolved allegations against Rachit Drug Inc. for billing Medicare Part D for drugs that were never actually provided to patients.
2. Auto-Refill Fraud: Automatically refilling prescriptions without the patient’s authorization or knowledge. When a patient stops taking a drug, the pharmacy intentionally fails to stop the auto-refill sequence.Impact: Medicare is consistently billed for chronic care drugs that accumulate unused in patients’ homes or are entirely abandoned.
3. Prescription Drug Switching Definition: Dispensing a cheaper medication while billing Medicare for a more expensive version. A generic alternative or a completely different, lower-cost drug is handed over to the patient.The pharmacy submits a claim for a premium brand-name or highly priced medication to absorb the financial spread.
4. Offering incentives to doctors, telemarketers, or patients to route prescriptions through a specific pharmacy. Pharmacies buy “doctor orders” or pay marketing companies to obtain Medicare beneficiary numbers. This forces the generation of highly expensive, medically unnecessary prescriptions (e.g., compound creams, footbaths) to bill the taxpayers.
5. Compounding Pharmacy Schemes: Fraudulently manufacturing custom-mixed medications at massive scale purely to trigger high Medicare payouts. Bribed medical providers write scripts for unnecessary, non-FDA-approved compounded products like pain or scar creams. These tailored drugs bypass standard pricing caps, often costing Medicare thousands of dollars per single tube.
6. PBM Overcharging and Pricing Manipulation: Corporate Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) manipulating drug pricing metrics reported to federal healthcare programs. Inflating the “usual and customary” prices or hiding manufacturer rebates instead of passing the savings to Medicare. A federal court penalized CVS Caremark nearly $290 million following whistleblower evidence that the PBM consistently overcharged Medicare for prescription drugs.
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