DOJ Charges 18 People — Including Doctors — in Massive Covid Health-Care Fraud Takedowns

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DOJ Charges 18 People — Including Doctors — in Massive Covid Health-Care Fraud Takedowns
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The alleged health-care fraud schemes involved false billing and theft from federal programs, fake COVID vaccine cards and COVID test kits

Dinh and two other individuals are also charged with allegedly submitting more than 70 fraudulent loan applications that obtained more than $3 million under the federal Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program.

But some suppliers allegedly"sought to exploit the program" by repeatedly supplying patients with dozens of Covid tests"they did not want or need," the DOJ said. The midwife practice was one of the busiest vaccination sites in the state, the DOJ said. But instead of administering the Covid vaccine, the defendants allegedly destroyed vials of the vaccines intended for patients, the DOJ said.

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