🔴 New Jersey man charged with $3.4M Medicaid fraud scheme
🔴 Prosecutors say he filed over 34,000 bogus claims
🔴 Vicente Lopez also owes nearly $100,000 in taxes to New Jersey, officials say
EAST ORANGE — A North Jersey man is accused of taking control of his dead sister’s company and using it to ransack the Medicaid program, according to authorities.
Vicente Lopez, 63, was indicted by a New Jersey grand jury on nine offenses earlier this month.
He is charged with second-degree healthcare claims fraud, second-degree theft by deception, third-degree Medicaid fraud, three counts of third-degree failure to pay tax, and three counts of third-degree filing a fraudulent tax return.
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Lopez took control of his sister’s company after she died in 2021. He posted Facebook videos in May 2021 announcing that he was the chief executive officer…