Ring of 8 Brooklynites charged in Medicare fraud scheme
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — EIGHT BROOKLYNITES HAVE BEEN CHARGED with Medicaid fraud in relation to social service agencies that they purportedly operated. The defendants, ranging in age from 27-61, were being arraigned Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9, with U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom presiding at federal court in Brooklyn.
The eight defendants are accused of scheming to defraud Medicaid of approximately $68 million through the operation of two Brooklyn-based social adult day cares and a home health care financial intermediary that were paying kickbacks and bribes for services that were not provided.
The defendants each face a varying number of charges and maximize prison penalties of 20 years per count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and of money laundering, count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and paying health care kickbacks, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive health care kickbacks.
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