$28.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme May Put Disbarred Attorney Behind Bars

[GoLeft TV]

From Ring of Fire:

Medicare fraud results in billions of dollars being stolen from the government each year. It takes a surprising amount of hubris to think that you can charge the government for services that were either never rendered or were unnecessary. Recently that hubris has caught up with a former lawyer Margarita Grishkoff, who for other reasons was disbarred in 1997.

Grishkoff is a 59 year old resident of Charlotte, N.C. and is originally from southwest Florida. She worked with a network of physical therapy clinics and other businesses to submit approximately $28.3 million worth of false claims, of which approximately $14.4 million were paid, to medicare during the period from 2005 through 2009.

You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.

[Atman]

1. What about Rick Scott?

He was awarded with a Governor's mansion instead of a prison cell.

[jsr]

2. +1

[HockeyMom]

3. My first thought also

[Enthusiast]

4. Big fines aren't enough of a deterrent.

Rick Scott is exhibit "A".