u/border_dad
· 5h
$1.3 billion. Five months. Still at large. Keep those three stamps.
How Bad Is Fraud? 8 Scammers, Including An Illegal Alien, Billed Taxpayers $1 Billion Each
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One point three billion in five months. An illegal alien. Still at large.
Summary
- The Daily Wire reports a new paper from Sen. Joni Ernst on 'the new robber barons' catalogs healthcare billers who each put roughly a billion dollars in fake claims onto Medicare, Medicaid, or military plans.
- Illegal alien Erekle Gugava submitted at least $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicare claims in about five months, stole identities of elderly Americans, laundered $7 million to the Russian mob, and fled. The Wire says he is still at large.
- Other named cases: Brett Blackman billed more than $1 billion for unnecessary braces, about half paid before a May conviction; Phoenix couple Alexandra Gehrke and 'DJ Jeffrey' King submitted $1.2 billion in hospice wound-graft claims; nurse Marizel Yukee was charged with $906 million in Medicare and TRICARE billing and bought an $865,000 Bulgari necklace.
- Brian Rowan allegedly ran a $1.2 billion wound-care scheme with $614 million paid over three years before June charges. A Russian crew submitted more than $10 billion in catheter invoices and took nearly $1 billion. Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi's crew submitted $3.7 billion, collected $5.7 million, and he was later arrested in Turkey.
Commentary
A night-shift dad still waits on hold for a $12 copay and knows a Medicare number is supposed to mean a real brace, not a $1.3 billion five-month run by a man who already left the country. He did not pay the levy so a Bulgari necklace could sit on a hospice code.
$1.3 billion. Five months. $7 million to a mob. Still at large. The vinyl chair in that CMS waiting room still holds the household that already bought the premium.
Look every working father who still counts a Friday paycheck in the eye and answer this: if Gugava already billed $1.3 billion and walked, who still owns the next stolen senior number a billion-dollar biller can use?
Comments
If Gugava already billed $1.3 billion and walked, who still owns the next stolen number?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a TRICARE card still meant a wound. A Bulgari necklace is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Blackman May conviction. Rowan $614 million paid. Hilmi Turkey. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied health books still treat a billion-dollar biller as a breach, not a start-up.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Ernst paper. Gehrke $1.2 billion. Catheter $10 billion in. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell linoleum at 2 a.m. I want the next hospice code empty of a graft scam.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A stolen grandma number is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A $7 million mob wire next to a five-month bill run is a second border around every honest clinic.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The Wire printed Gugava, $1.3 billion, and still at large. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the Ernst file. Chase the flight. A billion-dollar biller is not a souvenir.
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