Two dozen people, including doctors and owners of medical equipment companies, were charged in a more than $1,000,000,000 Medicare scam, authorities said.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Two dozen people, including doctors and owners of medical equipment companies, were charged in a more than $1 billion Medicare scam, authorities said Tuesday.
The ill-gotten gains were then laundered through international shell companies and used to buy exotic cars, yachts and luxury real estate in the United States and overseas, prosecutors said. The family of Neale Sweetman, who lives in Rochester, N.Y., said he received a box of unwanted back and knee braces sent by a medical supply company in Florida and prescribed by a doctor in another state.
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