As I have said on many previous occasions, I hope the Trump Administration is gathering their successful fraud-busting cases together to use as examples of what the Trump team is doing for us—finding and punishing those ripping off the US taxpayer!
At every rally he should be giving an update on how much fraud he is uncovering and busting!
The Medicaid fraud, Medicare fraud, Food stamp fraud have been doing great damage to the US Treasury and often there is a ‘new American’ component that makes it even more egregious. We welcome immigrants and then they rip us off!
Normally we are never told if a convicted criminal is a new American, but this story has a mention at the end.
More news about how we lost $4.5 million (this time!) to Medicaid/Medicare fraud.
FromKRGV TVRio Grand Valley,
5 People Sentenced in Health Care Fraud Case
MISSION – Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit assisted the feds to convict five people in two health care fraud cases.
Five people cheated Medicaid and Medicare out of nearly $4.5 million.
“By billing Medicare and Medicaid for services never provided, these individuals and their companies diverted healthcare dollars from the most vulnerable among us and defrauded taxpayers,” Attorney General Paxton said. Celestine Tony Okwilagwe will spend 16 years in the slammer before being deported to Nigeria. The owner of A&C Medical Supply LLC in Mission pleaded guilty to health care fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing over $900,000 from Medicaid. Andres Aly Alvarez was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison.
The unit worked together with the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General on the case, which was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in McAllen. Four people with Garland-based Elder Care Home Health Services were convicted for defrauding Medicaid and Medicare of more than $3.5 million. This includes owner Loveth Isidaehomen, the director of nursing Tutu Kudiratu Etti, co-owner Celestine Tony Okwilagwe. All were given a prison sentence of at least five years – Okwilagwe was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison followed by an immediate deportation to Nigeria.
The four co-conspirators were ordered to pay more than $3.5 million in restitution. [What are the odds that the money is long gone—to Africa!—ed]
No time for more details, but you can learn more hereand here about these crooks.
By the way, some involved in the fraud were Nigerian Olympic athletes. And, if you check out those two links you will see that some of the Nigerians were barred from participating in the Medicare/Medicaid programs and figured a way around it (until they were caught by the Trump healthcare fraud busters.)
This is only possible, because, as opposed to Minnesota, Texas does have an Attorney General, and a functional Justice System..
All of this and more, is still going on in Minnesota, but it is all being buried.
From the Governor’s office, to MN DHS, to the county Attorney’s Offices, and what passes for Minnesota Law Enforcement today, the cover-up FIX is in..
Hundreds of Millions Of Minnesota Taxpayer assets have been stolen each year, and for over ten years, but all we hear is crickets chirping..
Minnesota Media is complicit as well.
These prison sentences don’t seem equitable compared to what this has caused the U.S. taxpayer. Not only should the sentences be more harsh, these scumbags should also be deported after their sentences are complete.
Where is your sense of equity and inclusion? These are members of a class of people historically oppressed by white people, everyday, all day, the world over and if anything should have never been charged with a crime at all.
https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1153976
This is only possible, because, as opposed to Minnesota, Texas does have an Attorney General, and a functional Justice System..
All of this and more, is still going on in Minnesota, but it is all being buried.
From the Governor’s office, to MN DHS, to the county Attorney’s Offices, and what passes for Minnesota Law Enforcement today, the cover-up FIX is in..
Hundreds of Millions Of Minnesota Taxpayer assets have been stolen each year, and for over ten years, but all we hear is crickets chirping..
Minnesota Media is complicit as well.
These prison sentences don’t seem equitable compared to what this has caused the U.S. taxpayer. Not only should the sentences be more harsh, these scumbags should also be deported after their sentences are complete.
Where is your sense of equity and inclusion? These are members of a class of people historically oppressed by white people, everyday, all day, the world over and if anything should have never been charged with a crime at all.