WASHINGTON – Ten Florida citizens have been billed in an indictment unsealed right now in the Southern District of Florida for their alleged roles in a $67 million health and fitness care fraud, wire fraud, kickback, and cash laundering plan involving the submission of wrong and fraudulent promises to Medicare for medically pointless genetic exams and sturdy professional medical gear.
Daniel M. Carver, 35, of Coral Springs Thomas Dougherty, 39, of Royal Palm Beach and John Paul Gosney Jr., 39, of Parkland, the proprietors and administrators of impartial clinical laboratories and advertising and marketing firms, ended up each individual charged with conspiracy to commit wellbeing treatment fraud, overall health care fraud, conspiracy to pay back and get overall health care kickbacks and bribes, paying out and acquiring kickbacks and bribes, conspiracy to dedicate money laundering, and dollars laundering offenses.
Galina Rozenberg, 39, and Michael Rozenberg, 58, each of Hollywood, ended up arrested on Feb. 6, attempting to board a flight to Moscow. Each have been billed with a person count of conspiracy to dedicate well being care fraud, overall health treatment fraud, and conspiracy to dedicate money laundering. Galina Rozenberg was also charged with extra dollars laundering offenses.
Louis Carver, 30, of Delray Beach front Timothy Richardson, 29, of Lantana Ethan Macier, 22, of Coral Springs and Jose Goyos, 35, of West Palm Beach front have been every single charged with conspiracy to commit health treatment fraud, overall health care fraud, conspiracy to commit dollars laundering, and revenue laundering offenses. Ashley Cigarroa, 29, of North Lauderdale was charged with a person depend of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and committing overall health treatment fraud.
The indictment alleges that, between January 2020 and July 2021, the defendants referred Medicare beneficiaries for medically needless genetic assessments and strong medical gear. In exchange for doctors’ orders for this sort of tests and devices, the defendants allegedly paid kickbacks and bribes to telemedicine companies. The indictment further more alleges that the defendants falsified Medicare enrollment kinds to conceal the genuine proprietors and managers of specific laboratories, and submitted bogus and fraudulent promises to Medicare.
The defendants are predicted to make their original appearances in federal courtroom starting the week of Feb. 28. Federal rates for conspiracy to dedicate health care fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to dedicate cash laundering, and dollars laundering are every punishable by a optimum penalty of 20 decades in jail. Overall health treatment fraud and anti-kickback violations are each punishable by a optimum penalty of 10 decades in jail. Conspiracy to pay back and get kickbacks is punishable by a greatest penalty of 5 many years in jail. A federal district court decide will decide any sentence after taking into consideration the U.S. Sentencing Tips and other statutory things.
Assistant Attorney Common Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Legal Division Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Prison Investigative Division Particular Agent in Demand George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Particular Agent in Demand Omar Pérez Aybar of the U.S. Office of Health and fitness and Human Expert services Place of work of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) produced the announcement.
The HHS-OIG Miami Location and FBI’s Miami Subject Business office investigated the scenario.
Trial Attorneys Patrick J. Queenan and Reginal Cuyler Jr. of the Prison Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Sara Michele Klco of the Southern District of Florida is handling asset forfeiture matters.
The Fraud Segment qualified prospects the Health and fitness Care Fraud Strike Force. Because its inception in March 2007, the Health and fitness Treatment Fraud Strike Power, which maintains 15 strike forces functioning in 24 federal districts, has billed much more than 4,600 defendants who have collectively billed federal health and fitness treatment applications and private insurers for roughly $23 billion. In addition, the HHS Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Solutions, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are getting techniques to enhance accountability and lower the presence of fraudulent suppliers.
Any medical practitioners or health care gurus who have been included with alleged fraudulent telemedicine or genetic testing marketing and advertising strategies should contact to report this conduct to the FBI hotline at 1-800-Get in touch with-FBI.
An indictment and an details are basically allegations, and all defendants are presumed innocent right until tested guilty over and above a acceptable doubt in a courtroom of regulation.
