August 11, 2017
A man accused of spearheading a $45 million Medicare fraud scheme and subjecting an immigrant to forced labor received 12 months of probation Friday after he pled guilty to a lesser charge when a mistake forced prosecutors to halt his trial.
March 29, 2017
A trio of defendants accused of cheating Medicare out of $45 million pled guilty to much lesser charges Wednesday and could spend little to no time in jail after the government failed to hand over key evidence during a weekslong trial.
March 24, 2017
Federal prosecutors have dropped a money laundering conspiracy charge from the trial against alleged ringleaders of a $45 million Medicare fraud scheme, they told an Illinois federal judge on Thursday.
February 27, 2017
One of the alleged ringleaders of a $45 million scheme to defraud Medicare is pinning the blame for the operation on his fugitive mother, who was accused at the opening of an Illinois federal trial Monday of being a "dictator" who left her son at the mercy of federal prosecutors.
February 09, 2017
Fraud in Chicago’s home health industry is so widespread that executives accused of a $45 million Medicare fraud shouldn’t be able to present a jury with examples of other companies’ billing practices, the federal government said Wednesday.
January 18, 2017
One of the three relatives who owned a trio of home health care companies accused of running a $45 million Medicare fraud scheme fought back against some government evidence Tuesday, saying certain witness statements are untrustworthy and that some evidence may confuse jurors.
December 16, 2016
Two more nurses and an office manager pled guilty in Illinois federal court on Thursday to one count to commit health care fraud in litigation involving several Chicago-area home health care companies in a $45 million Medicare scheme.
September 09, 2016
A nurse who helped run several Chicago-area home health care companies pled guilty to her role in a $45 million Medicare fraud scheme Wednesday, admitting she instructed nurses to falsely certify patients for in-home skilled nursing to reap millions in insurance reimbursements.
August 11, 2016
Four more counts of health care fraud have been added to the charges faced by a Chicago couple and others who allegedly paid doctors kickbacks in a $45 million scheme to falsely certify that Medicare beneficiaries needed in-home physical therapy, according to a fourth superseding indictment filed Thursday in Illinois federal court.
July 18, 2016
The former director of nursing of a home health company caught up in a massive $45 million fraud scheme pled guilty Monday to falsifying medical records to make it appear as if Medicare patients were homebound when they were not.