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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for
(CHICAGO) -- An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. Zishan Alvi, 44, was the co-owner of Laboratory Elite, headquartered in Chicago, which purported to offer two types of COVID-19 testing, PCR tests and 15-minute
COVID testing company faked tests, threw samples away while taking $83 million in government funding, says DOJ, It is absolutely reprehensible that the defendant would use a public health crisis to allegedly defraud taxpayers and further put public health at risk by providing fraudulent COVID-19 test results, said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul,
The Justice Department indicted a founder of a Chicago-based COVID testing lab that allegedly made $83 million in fraudulent federal health claims.
An Illinois man was indicted for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government of almost $83 million in a COVID testing scheme and giving patients false negative test results.