Both defendants were filmed making illicit payments to undercover law enforcement agents, prosecutors say.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CN) — Over six years, the owner and manager of a Long Island ambulette company schemed to bill Medicaid for $35 million in transportation services for nonexistent rides to methadone clinics, according to federal prosecutors.
In an indictment unsealed Wednesday, Saad Aziz and Zabed Chowdhury are accused of paying kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries so they’d request medical transportation services from Tri-Hamlet Taxi Inc., a company owned by Aziz and managed by Chowdhury, purportedly for necessary methadone treatment.
“In reality, the defendants often did not provide the medical transportation services for which they billed Medicaid, yet, fraudulently submitted millions of dollars in claims for these nonexistent trips,” prosecutors write in charging…
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