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A dozen other people were taken into custody, as well, said New Jersey Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman, who has scheduled a news conference tomorrow morning in Newark to announce the results of the investigation.
CLIFFVIEW PILOT yesterday broke the news of the arrest of Rehan Zuberi and his wife, Humara Paracha, at their Boonton Township home, along with the seizure of computers and other evidence from various offices of American Imaging Center.
Zuberi (inset) 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.
Investigators early yesterday 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, sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
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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