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CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
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- AndrewKemendo 9mo agoI mean that’s pretty unabashed good news. I’m probably the most cynical person that comments regularly and I’ll take it! It’s something at least.
- Cipater 9mo agoYou're nowhere near the most cynical peron here if your first thought wasn't "how long till he gets pardoned"?
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- atmavatar 9mo agoMy first thought was that the guy was required to pay back less than half of what was stolen. From there, of course, it's a short hop to "he has more than enough money left over to purchase himself a pardon."
- wombatpm 9mo agoRecent reports say the going price is a million
- perihelions 9mo agohttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-presidential-pardon-process-dda97c15 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-presidential-pardo... ("Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon" / "Lobbyists close to Trump say their going rate to advocate for a pardon is $1 million")
- wombatpm 9mo agoThanks I knew I saw it somewhere reputable
- Nevermark 9mo agoWell if he wasn't already contributing some percentage to the "right" people ahead of time, and saying the "right" things ("autism, something, something, vaccines, something something, persecution, ..."), he wasn't very good at what he did. Despite the great post-sentencing opportunities for monetary re-justicing, insurance still works better when paid for up front.
- exabrial 9mo ago> An Arizona man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $452 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion by operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders used to support fraudulent claims for various medical items. I wish all headlines read like this instead of "here's why you should be scared"
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- garyfirestorm 9mo agoIs it a ‘snarky political jab’ if it is highly likely to happen irl?
- mr_toad 9mo agoTwo things can be true.
- hermannj314 9mo agoIt is a snarky political jab. President Trump loves to pardon white collar criminals in exchange for donations. It is his whole thing and well documented.
- wombatpm 9mo agoThe donations to his Presidential library are a scam. I’ve made this prediction elsewhere. I am 99% confident that the Trump Presidential Library will not be build during his lifetime. Further,I am 50 year old nonsmoker and I am 85% confident the Trump Presidential Library will not be built in my lifetime. I also expect the new East Wing Ballroom will not be built this term and the donations will mysteriously disappear with the next administration.
- nutjob2 9mo agoOne thing is certain: Trump is brazenly enriching himself, his family and associates every way he can in this term. But on the bright side when Dems win the midterms they will spend the rest of his term investigating and impeaching him, which will be amusing if nothing else.
- rdtsc 9mo ago> The fraudulent doctors’ orders generated by DMERx falsely represented that a doctor had examined and treated the Medicare beneficiaries when, in fact, purported telemedicine companies paid doctors to sign the orders without regard to medical necessity They'll get doctors as well? Hopefully they are part of the co-conspirators group they mentioned they convicted at the start. Criminals are going to be criminal, but it's especially disheartening when doctors engage in this. All those years going to school should be canceled and thrown into the trash immediately if they get convicted of these kinds of crimes. The path of ever being a doctor should be closed for them.
- OutOfHere 9mo agoThe problem here is not the doctors. It is billing it to government insurance. Doctors should remain free to gratify patients who are willing to pay cash rather than bill to government insurance. In fact, most such gratifications never have a problem for precisely this reason.
- kotaKat 9mo agoIt's still partially a problem with crooked doctors. This is just a step adjacent to the online pill mills for ED medication, GLP-1s, and ketamine, only the advertising and service delivery has been adapted to the elderly that don't use the Internet. Instead of ads online it's ads on daytime television bragging for free orthopedic supports and braces at no charge to you if you "call today" while they link you up to someone that signs a prefilled script for fifty bucks a pop to bill out to Medicare.
- burkesquires 9mo agoI think fraudsters should have to work off the money they stole at prison wages…punishments are supposed to be deterent and prevent people from commingting crime…don’t seal a billion dollars becasue IF you get caught you will have to pay back half is not a deterent…BUT if they have to pay off a billion dollars at 13-52 cents/hour…that is a deterent!
- free_bip 9mo agoI wouldn't want to see that. That's called slavery! And no, the severity of the crime does not (IMHO) justify it.
- matusp 9mo agoJust to play devil's advocate, you're okay with forcing a criminal to sit in a room for the rest of their life, but you're not okay if they also have to work for society during that timeframe. What is the main argument why the first case is okay and the second is not.
- llmslave2 9mo agoProbably for the same reason that it's generally seen as less intrusive to prevent someone from doing something, compared to forcing them to do something.
- vincnetas 9mo agothats why for some prison systems main goal is not punishment but rehabilitation. i think this is scandinavian approach. "The stated goal of the Swedish prison system is to create a safer society by reducing recidivism and rehabilitating offenders rather than focusing solely on punishment. This is achieved through humane treatment, education, and reintegration programs designed to prepare prisoners for life after release."
- devsda 9mo agoBecause it creates perverse incentive for government to put more people in prison. Right now the punishment is confinement. When you add effectively unpaid labour in prison as part of acceptable punishment, you're also paving the way for a future where unpaid labor as a standalone punishment is also acceptable. That's just slavery by law.
- jmyeet 9mo agoMeanwhile, we have the former governor of Florida and now Seantor from Florida Rick Scott, who was CEO of the company successfully prosecuted for the largest Medicare fraud in history ($1.7 billion) [1]. Here's what to watch: how long it takes for a donation to show up to the Trump library and how soon after that the sentence is commutted. This has erased roughly $1 billion in penalties so far since January 20. Hell, it might only take $1 million. [1]: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....
- keernan 9mo agoWhy does he only have to repay 45%?
- wredcoll 9mo agoArticle says medicaid only paid 300ish million on the claims.
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- frinxor 9mo agoSeeing a lot of these pop up more recently, but this has been happening for a decade now apparently. Isn't this the fault of Medicare itself, of not having routine checks and better processes for preventing these fraudulent claims at the source? If only the big scams are being caught (and we don't know what % are being caught), there's likely a lot more going undetected.
- xnx 9mo agoIs Trump going to pardon this guy like he did Salomon Melgen, who was convicted in 2017 of defrauding Medicare out of $73 million?
- stock_toaster 9mo agoExactly what I was wondering. I guess it depends on how much he does or doesn’t “donate”.
- e40 9mo agoThis is actually the answer. 1. Arrest and convict scammer 2. Scammer pays bribe from ill gotten gains 3. POTUS profits and scammer let out of jail
- vdupras 9mo agoBecause it has landed on Netflix recently, I've rewatched Gangs of New York. The process where that corrupt cop is skimming off the top is eerily similar to what's happening now. Down to the part where the police officer claims that his watch is safe ("I could murder someone in the streets and nothing could happen to me!")
- vdupras 9mo agoHe could pardon Mangione as well and that would make his karma even. Even Steven, just about square.
- throw-12-16 9mo agoHe should run for the Senate.
- shoo 9mo agosee also: Odd Lots interviewed Jetson Leder-Luis about medicare and medicaid fraud (nov 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-fraudsters-are-bilking-the-government-out/id1056200096?i=1000677298171 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-fraudsters-are-bil...
- webdevver 9mo ago79 years of age!? umm... i dont understand - is this supposed to be a warning to others, or an invitation? where was the FBI for the last 40 years? or did he really just go postal post-covid?
- dickersnoodle 9mo agoGood. Now do (Florida Senator) Rick Scott.
- burnt-resistor 9mo agoSo token enforcement despite widespread corruption, collusion, racketeering, and rapacious bankrupting of ill, dying, and dead patients and their families in-lieu of a functional healthcare system that isn't obsessed with maximizing shareholder value over lives. It's literally the most expensive deathcare the market will bear.