Seven ‘public servants’ indicted for Food Stamp fraud

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Seven ‘public servants’ indicted for Food Stamp fraud

Via Jonathan

It made barely a ripple in the national last week when initially reported, but seven state workers in Delaware were indicted for Food Stamp fraud totaling nearly a million dollars, with five arrested and two others at large. An official statement from the Delaware state government reported on June 14:

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Former State Workers Indicted and Arrested For Theft From Aid Program

 

Date Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

Attorney General Matt Denn announced today the arrests and indictments of seven former state of Delaware employees for theft of federal money. All seven were employed by the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), and were responsible for issuing Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, and three previous arrests were also related to the same investigation.

Indicted and arrested last week were:

 

In all cases, defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

http://news.delaware.gov/2016/06/14/ebt/

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Hundreds arrested for $900 million worth of health care fraud

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN

Updated 10:05 AM ET, Thu June 23, 2016

Story highlights

301 individuals are charged with about $900 million worth of false billing

Cases involve Medicare and Medicaid fraud

 

· The takedown: By the numbers

· $900 million in false billing

· $38 million sent from Medicare and Medicaid to one clinic to carry out medically unnecessary treatments

· $36 million billed to Medicare by a Detroit clinic that was actually a front for a narcotics diversion scheme

· 1,000 law enforcement personnel involved

· 301 defendants charged across the United States

· 61 of those charged are medical professionals

· 36 federal judicial districts involved

· 28 of those charged are doctors

· Source: U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services

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