Andrew Lee is charged with one count of wire fraud, while Kimberly Dyson is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and four counts of bribery. Two Chicago-based VA employees were charged in connection with a fraud scheme that involved pocketing cash payments from vendors in exchange for steering orders for medical equipment to those vendors. DC Woman Indicted for Scheme to Steal More than $400,000 in Government Benefit Funds.They were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, conspiracy to transact in criminal proceeds, transacting in criminal proceeds, and conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. The defendants caused losses to Medicare, TRICARE, and CHAMPVA of approximately $25 million. Gatto and his conspirators entered a related kickback scheme involving prescriptions for compounded medications. The companies owned by Farese and Gatto subsequently fraudulently billed the healthcare benefit programs for the orders. The scheme involved offering, paying, soliciting, and receiving kickbacks and bribes in exchange for doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment without regard to medical necessity, namely orthotic braces. of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, were charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud several healthcare benefit programs, including Medicare, TRICARE, and CHAMPVA. Thomas Farese of Delray Beach, Florida, and Domenic J. Ohio Man Found Guilty of Threatening a Federal Employee.Each defendant was also sentenced to a term of supervised release of three years and ordered to pay over $2.6 million in restitution to victims of the fraud. In truth, and as the defendants well knew, there were no such assets, only worthless securities that the defendants referred to as “gold certificates.” Xavier was sentenced to 72 months in prison Timothy “Guy” Castracane of Saratoga Springs, New York, was sentenced to 46 months in prison Henry John Hattendorf of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and Robert Michael Wann of Rancho Mirage, California, was sentenced to 54 months in prison.
During the fraud, Alexander Robert Xavier, formerly of Boca Raton, Florida, acted as a so-called “individual surety” and pledged over $30 million in assets to builders working on large-scale infrastructure and residential construction projects.
New Hampshire Man Found Guilty of Fraud įrom March through December 2015, four men devised a scheme to unlawfully enrich themselves by issuing various performance and payment bonds-a type of insurance required on major construction contracts.Earlier in 2021, McNeill was convicted of wire fraud for her misconduct related to W.R., sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison, and ordered to pay over $90,000 in restitution. He was extremely malnourished and ultimately died within a few days of his admission. After several months living with McNeill, purportedly receiving home health services provided by McNeill through PFCS, W.R. PFCS based its billing for those services on falsified timesheets provided by McNeill, who failed to provide both the time and quality of care required under the VA program. was residing with the company’s employee, Certified Nurse Aide Tracey McNeill. During 20, PFCS billed VA for home health services provided to W.R., an Army veteran, even though, at that time, W.R. (PFCS), a home health services company based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has agreed to pay more than $45,000 to settle civil False Claims Act allegations related to fraudulent billings for work by a recently convicted felon under their employ.