Sioux Falls surgeon and his affiliates to pay over $4 million in Medicare fraud scheme
Dr. Wilson Asfora funneled payments from medical device companies through expensive meals hosted for friends and colleagues at a restaurant owned by the surgeon and his wife. He is accused of performing unnecessary surgeries, defrauding government health care plans of millions. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
PIERRE, S.D. A Sioux Falls, S.D., surgeon and his two companies will pay millions to settle federal prosecutors claims that he wined and dined colleagues at a Brazilian restaurant co-owned with his wife with an elaborate kickback scheme involving medical devices and Medicare fraud.
The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in national security positions.
Frank Kendall, Nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense
Thomas A. Monheim, Nominee for Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
Gina Ortiz Jones, Nominee for Under Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense
Meredith Berger, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Department of Defense
Michael Connor, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of Defense
Ed Gonzalez, Nominee for Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Florida Man Ivan Andre Scott Gets 10 Years for Role in $3.3 Million Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme
On 4/14/21 at 9:38 PM EDT
Florida resident Ivan Andre Scott has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for arranging a $3.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving expensive genetic tests.
A federal jury found Scott guilty of using his Orlando-based telemarketing call center, Scott Global, to profit off of Medicare beneficiaries in the scheme. Prosecutors said he falsely told Medicare beneficiaries that the federal healthcare program would pay for expensive genetic tests. The tests, which can cost up to $6,000, would determine the likelihood of their developing cancer in the future.
(Brazilian Petrobas image via Courthouse News)
BROOKLYN (CN) Appearing in federal court on a drizzly Thursday in Brooklyn, the former CEO of Brazil’s largest petrochemical company pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy charges, saying he helped to facilitate payments to government officials to secure business deals.
Jose Carlos Grubisich, 64, led Braskem SA from 2002 to 2008. During that time, he told the court, he was asked to create an “off-the-books slush fund” that would pay an unidentified foreign official $4.3 million, in order to retain a contract with the Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras.
Grubisich admitted to having helped create offshore shell companies that funneled money into the fund these companies “did not provide legitimate services to Braskem,” he said.
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Health care fraud is widely considered a bipartisan focus for
federal prosecutors; it was a priority for federal prosecutors
during the prior administration and will remain so under President
Biden. Here, we highlight a few trends we have observed in recent
months, as we anticipate how the Biden Administration will tackle
health care fraud in the coming years.
Telemedicine
2020 saw a dramatic rise in telehealth services as a result of
the COVID-19 pandemic. As we mentioned in our recent article about
Pandemic Fraud, we can expect a corresponding