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,
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.