U.S. Justice Department officials on Monday identified three California men as among hundreds of defendants nationwide who were involved in $14.6 billion in fraud schemes involving Medicare, other federal health care benefit programs and illegally diverted drugs.
The charges filed in U. S. District Court in San Francisco by U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian and his counterparts across the U.S. stemmed from what Attorney General Pamela Bondi called a “record-setting Health Care Fraud Takedown [that] delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers.”
U. S. attorneys and state attorneys general across the country joined in a strategically coordinated, nationwide law enforcement action that resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants for their alleged participation in health care fraud and illegal drug diversion schemes that involved the submission of over $14.6 billion in alleged false billings and over 15 million pills of illegally diverted controlled substances…