To defraud medics and extort$ 53 million from Medicare, ten citizens from Broward and Palm Beach districts used three visit centers and three facilities. And, then, all 10 live in the national prison system.
Jose Goyos, the next member of the economic group to receive a jail sentence in December, was given 15 years in prison for his attempted and conspired to commit mail fraud and money laundering. Goyos may serve those phrases, the group’s following longest, continuously.
After pleading guilty to attempted and conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, Boca Raton resident Daniel M. Carver, 38, received the longest statement of the group, 16 years and eight months. The call centres and Medicare-enrolled scientific laboratory used in the fraud were owned by Carver.
The rest of the team and their phrases, in chronological order:
— Boca Raton’s Louis” Gino” Carver, 33, two years and eight months.
— North Lauderdale’s Ashley Cigarroa, 32, two years and six months.
— Palm Beach’s Thomas Dougherty, 42, 14 times.
— Parkland’s John Paul Gosney Jr., 42, seven times and 11 times.
— Boynton Beach’s Ethan Macier, 25, three years and nine times.
— Lantana’s Timothy Richardson, 31, two decades.
— Hollywood’s Galina Rozenberg, 42, four times.
— Hollywood’s Michael Rozenberg, 61, four times.
Fooling specialists on the phone
Daniel Carver’s guilty plea outlined the levels of lies the organization spread between January 2020 and July 2021. Carver owned Boca Raton’s DMC Group Holding, Royal Palm Beach’s Broad Street Lifestyles and Olympus First Consulting visit centers and medical laboratories Cergena Laboratories, Theregene Diagnostics, and North Miami Beach’s Progenix Lab.
According to Carver’s admission of facts, the call centers” conducted, deceptive telemarketing campaigns aimed at Medicare beneficiaries in an effort to get their consent to purchase durable medical equipment ( “DME” ) or genetic testing.”
Goyos ran the “doctor fight” part of the contact centers. Goyos wrote the physician fight guide, including the lies that his marketing staff told, according to the punishment research report from the prosecution.
The doctor fight telemarketers allegedly lied to doctors by claiming Medicare beneficiaries were “mutual patients” and that these individuals wanted these tests, according to the exploration. Additionally, Goyos participated in the creation of a website for a front company ( Gentec Solutions ), which served as a false sense of security for medical professionals rather than a call center.
Physicians believed” Gentec” treated the people.
” Carver, Dougherty, and others used Broad Street to defraud healthcare companies by paying fees to healthcare companies to get approved for DME and other genetic testing that weren’t clinically required.” The crew then received illegal kickbacks and bribes from laboratories, DME companies, and marketing firms for the doctors ‘ purchases.
All this allowed them to submit$ 67, 422, 579 in fraudulent claims to Medicare for unnecessary laboratory companies, of which Medicare paid$ 53, 051, 391.
The Office of the Inspector General and the FBI conducted an investigation into the event. The trial was handled by Criminal Division’s Fraud Section’s Reginald Cuyler, Andrew Tamayo and Patrick J. Queenan.
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