Federal prosecutors announced charges against 21 people for allegedly seeking to defraud government health care programs of $149 million in a variety of pandemic-related scams.
The charges brought in nine separate federal court cases are part of a broader effort by a Justice Department task force aimed at what Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general for the criminal division, said is"rooting out schemes that have exploited the pandemic."Investigators used data analytics programs and tips to identify patterns that could point to fraud, law enforcement officials said at a Wednesday briefing with reporters.
Read MoreIn some cases,"these people were committing fraud before the pandemic," a Justice Department official said at the briefing.The largest of the alleged fraud in the sweep announced Wednesday is a scheme by two people charged by prosecutors in Los Angeles with allegedly attempting to make $144 million in bogus claims related to the Covid-19 epidemic, and a total of $214 million in false Medicare billings for medically unnecessary laboratory tests.
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