Texas TBagger Doctor Indicted In Largest Medicare Fraud In History
by StuHunter
A Texas doctor was accused Tuesday in the largest Medicare fraud case in US history, with federal prosecutors charging him with scamming the government with $375 million in phony billings.
Justice Department officials announced that Dr. Jacques Roy was arrested in Texas and faces life in prison as well as fines of more than $250,000 if convicted.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Doctor Roy and his assistant, who was also charged, sent “recruiters” door-to-door in the Dallas area to get people to sign bogus medical forms that were then used in the alleged scam. The pair even went as far as to pay homeless people $50 each to sign the forms, according to the DOJ accusations.
Top Justice Department officials, working for several years to stem a rampant rise in healthcare fraud around the country, also revealed Tuesday that 78 home health agencies that were working with the physician, Dr. Jacques Roy, will be suspended from the Medicare program for up to 18 months.
FBI agents in Texas arrested Roy, of Rockwall, Texas, a physician for 28 years, and asked a federal judge in Dallas to keep him in custody until trial, citing his vast “bank accounts, a sailboat, vehicles and multiple pieces of property” as indications he may attempt to flee.
Facing life in prison and a $250,000 fine, as well as restitution of the vast sum of money he allegedly cost the federal government, Roy is to appear in court in Dallas later Tuesday.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-medicare-fraud-20120228,0,6359381.story
Copy of the indictment can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/83087463/Roy-Indictment
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1069138/-TBagger-Doctor-Indicted-In-Largest-Medicare-Fraud-In-History
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almost double. When I asked about it, he said "oh it's only the government" 
I've read he has since lost his license to practice in Wisconsin. I worked for him way back in 1970.
that you did it wrong.
You got it! The Rethuglies are still roping in the marks with their "smaller government and lower taxes" bs while using their connections to the state and federal government to rip off the taxpayers.
Have you noticed that whenever Rethuglies scream about Democratic "fraud," the Democratic malfeasance almost always looks like small beans? Rethugly fraud and embezzlement, on the other hand, looks like grand theft.
It would be the icing on the cake if he turned out to be a Canadian doctor who fled the public health insurance system here (taking his mainly publicly paid-for education with him) to make his fortune in the sunny south. 
