PHOENIX – Three men from Phoenix, Scottsdale and Mesa face charges along with more than 300 others throughout the country in what the U.S. Department of Justice said was a “national health care fraud takedown.”
Tyler Kontos, 29, of Mesa, Joel “Max” Kupetz, 36, of Scottsdale and Jorge Kinds, 49, of Phoenix were charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with a $1 billion amniotic wound allograft fraud scheme, according to a release from the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Kontos and Kupetz were also charged with transactional money laundering, and Kupetz was charged with receiving health care kickbacks…