Monday, October 18, 2010
Government at Work - Managing Medicare
Yes, this group got caught; but, did the government get our money back?
And I wonder, how many others are doing the same thing and NOT being caught.
If the crooks know government is incompetent, how come so many others don't seem to know it?...
And I wonder, how many others are doing the same thing and NOT being caught.
If the crooks know government is incompetent, how come so many others don't seem to know it?...
At MSNBC.com, Tom Hays, of the Associated Press recently reported:
"A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. Most of the defendants were captured during raids Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, but there also were arrests in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio.
The scheme's scope and sophistication 'puts the traditional Mafia to shame,' U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference. 'They ran a veritable fraud franchise.'"
