Published: 26 December 2020 26 December 2020
New York - The owners of over a dozen New York-area pharmacies were charged in an indictment unsealed Monday for their roles in a $30 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they exploited emergency codes and edits in the Medicare system that went into effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to submit fraudulent claims for expensive cancer drugs that were never provided, ordered, or authorized by medical professionals.
Peter Khaim, 40, and Arkadiy Khaimov, 37, both of Forest Hills, New York, each were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Khaim was separately charged with two counts of concealment money laundering and one count of aggravated identity theft. Khaimov was separately charged with two counts of concealment money laundering.
Two Owners of New York Pharmacies Charged in a $30 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Case
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Pharmacy Owners Charged in $30 Million COVID-19 Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme Newsweek 22/12/2020 Jeffery Martin © iStock/Getty In an indictment unsealed Monday, two pharmacy owners in New York perpetrated Medicare fraud and illegally obtained more than $30 million.
Pharmacy owners Peter Khaim and Arkadiy Khaimov of Forest Hills, New York took advantage of changes in the Medicare system effected by the COVID-19 pandemic in order to illicitly obtain over $30 million, according to an indictment unsealed Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Khaim and Khaimov were able to take control of dozens of pharmacies in the New York area by paying individuals to falsely claim they owned the pharmacies. Pharmacists were hired to pretend to be supervising pharmacists at those establishments in order to obtain the necessary licensure and credentials for insurance plans. By using medical billing codes for COVID-19, Khaim and Khaimov allegedly placed fraudulent or
Prolific Madras meth trafficker gets 25-year federal prison sentence
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Ronald Wayne Thrasher Significant sentence . cuts off major source in Central Oregon
EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) A prolific drug dealer from Madras with a decades-long criminal history was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said.
On August 8, 2019, Ronald Wayne Thrasher, 50, whose previous convictions include drug manufacturing and distribution, burglary, and illegal firearm possession, was found guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine by a federal jury in Eugene.
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Madras Methamphetamine Trafficker Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison
EUGENE, Ore.-Ronald Wayne Thrasher, 50, a prolific drug dealer from Madras, Oregon with a decades-long criminal history, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison followed by five years supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
On August 8, 2019, Thrasher, whose previous convictions include drug manufacturing and distribution, burglary, and illegal firearm possession, was found guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine by a federal jury in Eugene. Ronald Thrasher is a dangerous criminal whose drug dealing threatened communities throughout Central Oregon. Despite several previous convictions and significant prison sentences, Thrasher repeatedly returned to drug trafficking to provide income for himself, supply his own drug addiction, and
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