Southern MD Couple make Federal News

[DoWhat]

Family Members Indicted For Stealing Over $800k In VA Benefits | FedSmith.com

A group of family members have been indicted on charges that they fraudulently obtained over $800,000 in VA disability benefits.

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[vraiblonde]

Angela Biggs sounds familiar - I'm guessing we had the story on here somewhere?

 

[frequentflier]

Scumbags.

 

[RoseRed]

Angela Biggs sounds familiar - I'm guessing we had the story on here somewhere?

It was previously posted.

 

[Monello]

Pretty easy to get 1 over on the government and their programs. Look at durable goods billed to medicare. Lots of fraud in that program. Fake companies billing the government for things like mobility scooters and wheelchairs.

A Florida healthcare executive was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors described as a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme.

U.S. District Judge Robert Scola imposed the sentence on Philip Esformes, 50, in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history.

Among the thousands of people charged with Medicare fraud in Miami, only a handful would qualify as repeat offenders.

Meet one of them, Vicente Gonzalez Acosta. A decade ago, Gonzalez pleaded guilty to helping a Miami-based network of HIV-therapy clinics expand into the South as they billed $100 million to the taxpayer-funded program and collected $30 million in payments. But they actually provided no medical services at all.

The Justice Department announced today a significant health care fraud enforcement operation across Florida and Georgia, involving charges against a total of 67 individuals across four federal districts for their alleged involvement in various schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. The conduct allegedly resulted in more than $160 million in fraudulent billings. Those charged included physicians as well as other medical and business professionals. In addition, in the state of Florida, 16 defendants, including one licensed mental health professionals, have been charged with defrauding the Medicaid program out of over $1.2 million.

Francisco Abreu Tartabull, 53, of Miami, was charged
Maribel Sera, 51, of Hialeah, was charged
Ricardo Ignacio Perez, 54, and Ricardo Perez-Leon, 31, both of Miami, the owners and operators of three Miami pharmacies, were charged
Tania Rodriguez, 48, and Rafael Vidal, 61, both of Miami, were charged
Elba Cobos Baile, 60, and Yolanda Castano, 55, both of Miami, were charged
Deivys Ernesto Alvarez, 48, of Hialeah, was charged
Jocelyn De La Caridad Perez, 41, and Joaquin Guevara, 46, both of Miami, were charged
Ivan Bejerano, 49, of Miami, was charged
Juan Jose Mesa, 58, and Madelaine Varona, 47, both of Miami, owners and/or operators of All Excellent OT-PT Service LLC of Miami and Cruz Healthcare Corp. of Miami, respectively; Sandra Cardona, 47, of Hialeah, an allegedly unlicensed therapist; and Silvia Salvatori, 67, of Pembroke Pines, Florida, a licensed massage therapist, were charged
Sara Tania Ruiz, 55, of Hialeah, and Maria Laura Prieto, 60, of Miami, were charged

Notice any coincidence other than many last names ending in Z?

 

[BernieP]

Angela Biggs sounds familiar - I'm guessing we had the story on here somewhere?

yes, and on Facebook (SOMDNews) linked.

 

[DannyMotorcycle]

Couple of them had decent careers.. greedy focking idiots

 

[spankinmonkey]

Wonder when this will go to court? It bothers me that she identifies her business as "Disabled Veteran Owned" https://www.somdconnect.com/webdesign-marketing-aboutus