Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a California doctor who allegedly ran a $230 million fraud during the pandemic, billing the government for uninsured claims for patients who either had insurance or weren't treated.
used more than $100 million of his ill-gotten gains to do high-risk options trading, authorities said.
The Justice Department said the cases are part of a nationwide push to weed out pandemic fraud in the healthcare sector. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the announcement “unprecedented” and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. called the cases “the largest-ever coordinated law enforcement action”ebcx against healthcare fraud involving the coronavirus.That included a case against Lourdes Navarro, a California woman who was previously charged with a $214 million fraud, and who saw prosecutors bump that up to $241 million bilked from the government.
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