10. Phantom Clinics
The proverb ‘a fool and his money are soon parted’ may go back to the 16th century when English poet Thomas Tusser first penned the phrase in his work, but it is not only just as relevant today but on a much grander scale. That is what happened to the Federal Government back in 2010 when a bunch of Armenian gangsters managed to perpetrate the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the history of the Medicare program.
An investigation began when the authorities discovered that 2,900 Medicare patients’ information, as well as those of doctors, had been stolen. The gangsters used these identities to set up 118 phantom clinics in 25 states, using that information to submit fake bills for care that was never given. And boy oh boy were they successful. By the time the scheme was exposed, Medicare had been swindled out of at least $35 million.
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