Brooklyn Doctor Convicted in $77M Medicare fraud scheme
Gustave Drivas, M.D., a Staten Island resident who owned a medical clinic in Brooklyn, was convicted Tuesday of two felony counts for his role in a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme.
The jury’s verdict followed an eight-week-long trial in United States District Court in Brooklyn before the Hon, Nina Gershon. The conviction was announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York; and Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice.
The evidence at trial showed that Drivas authorized his co-conspirators at the clinic to use his Medicare billing number to charge Medicare for more than $20 million in medical procedures and services that were never performed.