Feds indict more than 30 in Medicare fraud case
Quick ReadThe charges, which include bribes, kickbacks and money laundering, were detailed in five indictments involving 32 people.
Photo credit: Getty Images | Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius appears at a press conference announcing arrests in a Medicare fraud crackdown on Dec. 15, 2009 in NYC.
Federal agents tasked with rooting out Medicare fraud announced indictments against more than 30 people Tuesday, including four in New York, for bilking the taxpayer-funded program of more than $60 million, including a scam in which a mother and son from Bay Ridge allegedly filed claims for special diabetes shoes and inserts that turned out to be nothing more than $20 over-the-counter insoles.
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