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Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:04 AM Jan 2014

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

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.

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$28.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme May Put Disbarred Attorney Behind Bars (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jan 2014 OP
What about Rick Scott? Atman Jan 2014 #1
+1 jsr Jan 2014 #2
My first thought also HockeyMom Jan 2014 #3
Big fines aren't enough of a deterrent. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #4
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