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Medical Card Scams - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 23rd Feb, 2016 - 2:00am
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Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever
Original Post Date: 14th Oct, 2010 - 1:29am
Glad to read this network was caught and won't try to scam ever again. What are your thoughts about it?
QUOTE NEW YORK (AP) - 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." Unlike other cases involving crooked medical clinics bribing people to sign up for unneeded treatments, the operation was "completely notional," Janice Fedarcyk, head of the FBI's New York office, said in a statement. "The whole doctor-patient interaction was a mirage." The operation was under the protection of an Armenian crime boss, known in the former Soviet Union as a "vor," prosecutors said. The reputed boss, Armen Kazarian, was in custody in Los Angeles. Bharara said it was the first time a vor _ "the rough equivalent of a traditional godfather" _ had been charged in a U.S. Racketeering case. Kazarian, 46, of Glendale, Calif., and two alleged ringleaders _ Davit Mirzoyan, 34, also of Glendale, and Robert Terdjanian, 35, of Brooklyn _ were named in an indictment charging racketeering conspiracy, bank fraud, money laundering and identity theft. The indictment accused Terdjanian and others of hatching other schemes involving stolen credit cards, untaxed cigarettes and counterfeit Viagra. It also alleges that during a meeting last year at a Brighton Beach restaurant, Terdjanian pulled a knife on someone who owed him money "and threatened to disembowel the individual if the debt was not paid." A judge jailed Terdjanian without bail on Wednesday at a brief hearing. Afterward, his attorney said his client denies the charges.... Source 2i
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