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March 14, 2007
Rochester Nurse Admits Over $70,000 In Medicaid Fraud
… Rochester Nurse Admits Over $70,000 In Medicaid Fraud March 14, 2007 ALBANY, NY (March 14, 2007) – Attorney … nurse pled guilty to receiving over $70,000 in Medicaid funds for private nursing services that she never …
March 13, 2007
Mount Vernon Nurse Sentenced For Home Health Care Scam That Defrauded Medicaid
… Nurse Sentenced For Home Health Care Scam That Defrauded Medicaid March 13, 2007 NEW YORK, NY (March 13, 2007) – … nurse was sentenced to prison for fraudulently billing Medicaid for home care to a severely disabled child that was … that the child’s mother, Maria Ortiz, was involved in the fraud, as she received kickbacks from Gilles. When confronted …
March 28, 2007
Doctor Who Wrote Hundreds Of Illegal Prescriptions To Medicaid Recipients Indicted On Multiple Charges
… Doctor Who Wrote Hundreds Of Illegal Prescriptions To Medicaid Recipients Indicted On Multiple Charges March 28, … had a reputation as source for dangerous narcotics among Medicaid recipients from Montauk to Manhattan. His actions … being conducted by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and various city, state and federal …
March 14, 2007
Amagansett Doctor Charged In Prescription Drug Trafficking Scam
… hundreds of thousands of dollars in medically unnecessary Medicaid billings. The doctor, Michael Chait, M.D., 46, wrote … OxyContin, a synthetic form of morphine, and Dilaudid – to Medicaid recipients who traveled from New York City to his … being conducted jointly by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for New …
March 19, 2007
Nassau County Pharmacist Gets 4-to-12 Years In Prison For Diverting Drugs As Part Of Multi-million Dollar Drug Ring
… vulnerable residents at risk and squanders millions of Medicaid dollars that were unknowingly spent on black market … A. Stingley and Glenn M. Jones of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit under supervision of Unit Chief Monica …
March 02, 2007
Nursing Home Aide Convicted For Raping 90-year-old Resident
… was prosecuted by the Syracuse Regional Director for the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Ralph D. Tortora III, under the direction of Deputy Attorney General-In-Charge of Medicaid Fraud, William Comiskey.  Special Investigator …
March 28, 2007
Upstate Nurse Aide Convicted Of Resident Neglect And Record Falsification
… From January 25 to March 10, 2005, the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, acting with the consent of the resident’s … case was the first of its kind to go to trial, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit’s use of nursing home video …
March 07, 2007
Nurse Aid Convicted Of Endangering Patient At Rochester Nursing Home
… Assistant Attorney General Timothy McFarland of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit’s Rochester Regional Office prosecuted the …
March 12, 2007
Assisted Living Facility Employee Indicted For Stealing Over $300,000 From Residents
… York City Region of the Office of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The investigation was conducted by Senior …
March 14, 2007
Amagansett Doctor Charged In Prescription Drug Trafficking Scam - M-Chait-Complaint
… SQield No. 1051, of the Office of the Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), 120 Broadway, New York, New ~ b r … caused to be srbmitted a request for prior approval to the Medicaid program in order to enable a patient to obtain …

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