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New Jersey<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A federal grand jury returned indicted a Florida owner of multiple telemedicine companies with orchestrating a health care fraud and illegal kickback scheme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scheme involved the submission of over $784 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, officials allege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department. The defendant is accused of concealing and disguising the proceeds of the scheme in order to avoid paying income taxes, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creaghan Harry, 53, of Highland Beach, Florida, is charged in the superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and four counts of income tax evasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If convicted of the charges, Harry faces a lengthy prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry previously was charged in an indictment along with co-conspirators Lester Stockett and Elliot Loewenstern with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive kickbacks, four counts of receipt of kickbacks, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stockett and Loewenstern previously pleaded guilty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to allegations in the superseding indictment, Harry and his co-conspirators solicited illegal kickbacks and bribes from durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers and marketers in exchange for orders for DME braces and medications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry\u2019s telemedicine companies then allegedly paid physicians to write medically unnecessary orders for these braces and medications. Harry\u2019s telemedicine companies provided orders to DME suppliers that fraudulently billed Medicare over $784 million. Medicare ended up paying over $247 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to conceal and disguise the health care fraud and illegal kickback scheme, the superseding indictment alleges, Harry directed DME suppliers and marketers not to directly pay his telemedicine companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told them that instead pay shell companies that had been opened in the names of straw owners in the United States and foreign countries, such as the Dominican Republic, according to court documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry then transferred the funds from the shell companies to his telemedicine companies in order to pay physicians to write the unnecessary orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The superseding indictment alleges that Harry falsely claimed to prospective investors, lawyers, and others that his telemedicine companies had not received any kickbacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry instead falsely represented that the telemedicine companies had been receiving revenue of \u201cabout $10 million per year\u201d from fees paid by patients to receive telemedicine services, when in fact the revenue of the telemedicine companies was derived from illegal kickbacks and bribes, officials stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The superseding indictment further alleges that Harry committed income tax evasion in the calendar years between 2015 and 2018 by receiving the proceeds of the illegal scheme in the accounts of shell companies belonging to nominee owners and using those proceeds to live a lavish lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry did not file an income tax return or pay taxes on this income.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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