Nicholas Moore, 33, of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud. He admitted helping submit $199 million in fraudulent claims to insurance companies. He is the one defendant in the Los Angeles takedown announced October 22 whom the Justice Department describes as having pleaded guilty.
What Moore admitted
Moore managed certain facilities controlled by Nathan and David Young and served as a nominal owner and director of them, the Justice Department says. A nominal owner is a person whose name is on the ownership papers.
His plea was to a superseding information, a charging document that replaced the earlier one. The release does not give the date of the plea or the court, and it lists no sentencing date. It also does not name the insurance companies or say whether any were Medicare or Medi-Cal…