DOJ Charges Illinois Lab Owner in $66M COVID Fraud Scheme

US Politics9 hours ago

FBI agents raided healthcare centers throughout New York on Monday as part of a broader federal push to reclaim misappropriated pandemic funds. Agents were observed leaving a facility in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, while officials indicated that anti-fraud operations are ramping up. Some industry analysts expect the targets of these raids to be primarily home health agencies.

Simultaneously, the Justice Department's Fraud Division charged an Illinois laboratory owner with orchestrating a $66 million scheme to bill taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of fabricated COVID-19 tests. Assistant Attorney General McDonald stated the defendant exploited a global crisis for personal gain by fabricating diagnostics to secure federal health care payments.

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DOJ Charges Illinois Lab Owner in $66M COVID Fraud Scheme

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