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DoJ charges 412 in $1.3 billion medical fraud
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2017 Jul 13, 10:53am 1,667 views 6 comments
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curious2
2017 Jul 13, 11:29am
It's been happening in plain sight for years, though in SF people pretend not to understand why the homeless industrial complex operates the way it does.
The fake patients, authorities said, were recruited by and would turn over the medication to Rashid Islam — also known as Kevin Kenneth Wade — who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to deal the drugs and was sentenced to six years in prison.
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Collin Leong told federal drug agents that he charged $80 to $150 for each one, pulling in about $400,000 in all.
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Investigators believe that in the past five years, Leong has prescribed more than 1 million hydrocodone tablets and more than 989,000 oxycodone tablets, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Jared Lindley wrote in an affidavit."
Rashid Islam sounds like yet another example of why Muslims are 10x more likely to be incarcerated in federal prison than non-Muslims are. Medicaid and the "Healthy San Francisco" program paid probably millions of dollars for the pills, thus enabling the whole scheme.
Tenpoundbass
2017 Jul 13, 11:35am
Trump keeps knocking down our Deficit this is like 5 billion he's shaved off the top since coming in office.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2017 Jul 13, 11:41am
How much you want to bet the DOJ under Obama was instructed to hold back?
Tenpoundbass
2017 Jul 13, 11:54am
How much you want to bet the DOJ under Obama was instructed to hold back?
What is there to hold back.
I bet if I went to one of those Strip malls with the signs that read... "Free Gas Card with enrollment" I would find enough evidence just in one location's books to sink the Whole Demcorat party and lock up most of the DOJ on Obama's watch. This scale of fraud is managed and orchestrated. This is why Trump is a turd in Liberal Punchbowl that must be taken out before he puts them all back in Chains.
"The Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against 412 people for $1.3 billion in health-care fraud, the largest such takedown in U.S. history.
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Many of the charges were related to doctors unnecessarily prescribing opioids, which then ended up on sale on the street, the department said. One fake rehab facility in Palm Beach, Fla., recruited addicts with gift cards, drugs and trips to casinos and strip clubs and then billed insurance companies for $58 million in false treatments and tests, according to the charges... Some falsely billed Medicare and Medicaid.
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Arrests have been made across the country from Detroit and Miami to Los Angeles and Chicago, according to prosecutors."