LOS ANGELES (CN) — Prosecutors are accusing a Southern California doctor of filing $45 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for Botox injections that were either medically unnecessary or never provided at all.
Violetta Mailyan, 45, is also charged with obstructing the criminal investigation of her purported fraud scheme by submitting falsified medical records in response to a grand jury subpoena, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
According to the superseding indictment filed in Los Angeles federal court, Medicare paid Mailyan $33 million of the fraudulent claims, which she used to buy luxury goods and real estate…