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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump pardonee defrauded MILLIONS from Medicare that was intended to be used for senior citizens
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This person Trump released from prison this week deserves more press coverage- she had defrauded MILLIONS of $ from Medicare that was intended to be used for our senior citizens: Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-gets-35-year-prison-sentence-in-200-million-medicare-fraud/1887688/
Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud
Owner of Miami mental health care company sentenced in scheme.
8:15 AM - Feb 20, 2020
Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud
The owner of a Miami-area mental health care company will be spending the next 35 years behind bars after she was sentenced in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday.
Judith Negron, 40, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King, who also ordered her to pay over $87 million in restitution.
Negron, along with two other owners and executives with American Therapeutic Corporation, was arrested in October 2010 in the scheme that prosecutors said billed Medicare for mental health treatments that patients didn't need.
Prosecutors said dating back to 2002, Negron and fellow owners Lawrence S. Duran and Marianella Valera paid bribes and kickbacks to owners and operators of assisted living facilities and halfway houses and to patient brokers in exchange for delivering ineligible patients to their facilities.
Negron was found guilty of 24 felony counts in August, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering and structuring to avoid reporting requirements.
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The Presidential Pardon will have to be reformed after this. Or the power removed.
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Trump pardonee defrauded MILLIONS from Medicare that was intended to be used for senior citizens (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
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Does anyone know if she ever paid restitution, or does she just keep the loot?
bluedigger
Feb 2020
#2
Exactly. Steal a little, you are a thief. Steal a lot, you are a shrewd business person.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2020
#8
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Trump doesn't think fraud is a crime
Seems rather obvious.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)2. Does anyone know if she ever paid restitution, or does she just keep the loot?
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)3. If you thieve and steal GO BIGLY
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)8. Exactly. Steal a little, you are a thief. Steal a lot, you are a shrewd business person.
onethatcares
(16,184 posts)4. she'll probably get a job
in pRickscotts office as an ethics manager.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)6. trumPutin may put her in charge of Medicare
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)5. Kick
Mr. Sparkle
(2,947 posts)7. K&R!