WASHINGTON – A 10-count Indictment, unsealed today in U.S. District Court, charges two executives of a District-based healthcare provider and one of their Community Support Workers in connection with a scheme?to bill D.C. Medicaid for mental health services for juveniles that were never provided or were invoiced at grossly inflated rates,?causing a loss to the District of Columbia’s Medicaid?program that exceeded?millions of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.?
“No one stealing from taxpayer-funded programs is safe. As alleged, these defendants treated Medicaid as a personal piggy bank in a scheme that caused millions in losses, billing for services never provided while funding luxury vehicles and other extravagant purchases,” said U.S. Attorney Pirro. “We will continue to uncover and prosecute fraud until these schemes are dismantled and taxpayer dollars are…
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