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Among those taken into custody were Rehan Zuberi (inset), the president of American Imaging Center and his wife, Humara Paracha, who were arrested at their Boonton Township home, the sources said.
Zuberi was being held $1 million bail and Paracha on $300,000 in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morris Township on charges ranging from income tax evasion to bribery to racketeering, records show.
- UPDATE: State authorities today confirmed the arrest of the owner of a network of diagnostic imaging centers Hackensack, Englewood and elsewhere on charges of orchestrating “an elaborate scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to doctors in exchange for patient referrals.” READ MORE….
Investigators early this morning hit the American Imaging Center headquarters on State Street in Hackensack, along with offices on Dean Street in Englewood, in Jersey City, Union City, Wayne and elsewhere, the sources said.
The 11-site company also has offices in Elizabeth, Edison, Montville and West Orange.
Several were closed, forcing patients to use other locations. Those who use the Englewood and Hackensack offices were redirected to Passaic County.
Zuberi served 10 months in state prison in the early 2000s after pleading guilty to his role in a large Medicaid fraud money laundering scheme. As part of the scheme, ringleaders paid kickbacks to Zuberi to refer blood specimens to a clinic he operated in Clifton for bogus and expensive tests. The clinics’ patients were Medicaid recipients who were unaware that their blood was being subjected to the unnecessary tests.
Zuberi was ordered to pay $10,000 in fines and more than $50,000 in restitution and was prohibited from participating in Medicaid. Three years ago, he was reinstated, records show.
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