Inside Operation Gold Rush: How a national criminal network took advantage of the American health care system from $ 14.6 billion

Law enforcement has seized more than $ 245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, encrypted currencies, and other assets, as prosecutors warned of the increasing batch via through the national criminal networks to exploit the American health care system. As part of the overwhelming campaign, officials have identified perpetrators in Russia, Eastern Europe, Pakistan and other countries.

“These criminals have not only stolen the money of someone else. They were stolen from you,” Matthew Gallowe, who leads the criminal section of the Ministry of Justice, told reporters on Monday. “Every fraudulent claim, all fake bills, represents every scheme to kick the money that is taken directly from the American taxpayers pockets who finance these basic programs through their hard work and their sacrifices.”

The alleged fraud of $ 14.6 billion is more than twice the previous record in the annual fraud campaign for health care in the Ministry of Justice. It includes approximately 190 federal cases and more than 90 cases of government that has been charged or not removed since June 9. Nearly 100 licensed medical professionals, including 25 doctors, have been charged, and the government has reported $ 2.9 billion of actual losses.

Among these cases, there is a $ 10 billion urine catheterization scheme that the authorities say they highlight the advanced methods that criminal organizations use through national patriotism. The authorities say that the group behind the plan used foreign straw owners to buy dozens of medical supply companies secretly and then used stolen identities and secret health data to submit fake medicare claims.

Prosecutors said that nineteen defendants were charged as part of this investigation – which the authorities called by the authorities Gold Rush – including four people who were arrested in Estonia and seven people who were arrested at US airports and at the border with Mexico. The plan guarantees stolen identities and personal information for more than a million Americans, according to the Ministry of Justice.

D. Muhammad OzWhich leads the Medicare and Medicaid services centers. “These are organized unions that are designed to harm America.”