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Kickbacks Convinced Doc To Scam Medicare Out Of Nearly $21 Million: NJ Feds
A doctor pocketed cash kickbacks from lab companies and others for filing more than $20.7 million in bogus Medicare claims for medically unnecessary -- and often expensive -- COVID and cancer genetic tests, among other scams, a federal grand jury in Newark has charged. Alexander Baldonado, 68, of Queens already was awaiting trial dating back to charges brought a few years ago when grand jurors in Newark this week returned a superseding indictment that digs deeper into the allegations. Baldonado approved lab tests billed to Medicare in exchange for cash payoffs "from a laboratory representat…
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Business Owner From NY Admits $127M Health Care Kickback Scheme: Feds
A New Jersey marketing company owner from Rockland County admitted in federal court that he was a major figure in scamming Medicare, TRICARE and other benefit programs out of $127 million. Eric Karlewicz, 44, of Chestnut Ridge, NY, participated in a “circular scheme of kickbacks and bribes” with doctors, durable medical equipment businesses and telemedicine companies to pull off the massive con, U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna said. Karlewicz – also known as Anthony Mazza -- used his considerable cut from $63.8 million in payoffs to buy himself a fleet of luxury vehicles that included a Ferrari,…
Police & Fire
FBI Raids Bucks County Lab With
Covid-
19 Testing
Members of the FBI and other law enforcement agents raided a Bucks County diagnostics lab that offers COVID-19 testing last Thursday. The Genesis Diagnostics lab in Middletown Township was among the first private clinical labs to offer COVID-19 testing in the U.S. A spokesperson for the FBI's Philadelphia field office told LevittownNow only that agents were carrying out a court-authorized activity. No further information was released. Shipping packages were seen stacked outside of the Town Center Drive lab's doorway. Breaking @CBSPhilly / FBI, Office of Inspector General for the U.S. …
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South Jersey Prosecutor Warns Of
Covid-
19 Vaccine Scams
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, according to a South Jersey prosecutor who says fake coronavirus promises already are surfacing. Now that COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and are starting to be administered in New Jersey and worldwide, the Camden County Prosecutors Office is warning people about potential vaccine scams. “A lot of people, especially those in high-risk groups, are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel with the news of an approved vaccine, and that excitement could make them susceptible to scams,” said Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer. “We …