Medicare scam, pandemic benefit theft, offshore tax evasion — federal prosecutors are casting a wide net.
The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division wrapped up its second consecutive week of sweeping enforcement activity, with prosecutors across the country securing convictions, guilty pleas, and indictments tied to schemes totaling more than $1 billion.
The centerpiece of the week’s actions was a jury verdict in the Southern District of Florida against the founder and owner of HealthSplash, a health care software company whose platform was used to generate fabricated doctors’ orders and prescriptions. The scheme defrauded Medicare and other federal health benefit programs of more than $1 billion through claims for unnecessary medical equipment.
“In the past week, prosecutors throughout the Department secured trial convictions of multiple defendants who ran…
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