LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A Las Vegas woman is among several people charged with taking part in a multi-million-dollar Medicare fraud scheme, according to federal prosecutors.
A grand jury indicted Marizel Yukee, 49, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and offering, paying, soliciting and receiving illegal health care kickbacks, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said in a news release this week. She is also charged with transactional money laundering.
The indictment accuses Yukee of targeting elderly Medicare patients, many of whom were terminally ill in hospice care, through her four mobile wound clinics…