A Vacaville nurse is among the hundreds of people arrested in the massive nationwide health care fraud “takedown” announced this week by the Department of Justice.
Clinton Johnson Christian, 38, was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco on seven counts of tampering with a consumer product with reckless disregard for risk to another and seven counts of obtaining controlled substances through misrepresentation.
He is one of five defendants charged in connection with allegations that they defrauded Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs and illegally diverted drugs. And all are part of 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 more than 15 million pills of illegally diverted controlled substances, according to U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian, who announced the Northern District indictments…