Thomas Farese, 83, receives two-year prison term and over $1.3 million in restitution for laundering funds tied to fraudulent medical equipment billing scheme.
NEWARK, N.J. — An 83-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for laundering proceeds from a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and kickback scheme that defrauded Medicare and other insurers through the sale of unnecessary medical equipment, according to a statement from Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba.…