Brooklyn court sentenced a Russian-speaking medical assistant to three years in prison

A Brooklyn federal judge, before sentencing a Russian-speaking medical assistant, called fraudulent medical care schemes a “terrible problem” in the Eastern District of New York.

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Yuri Omelchenko previously pleaded guilty to having worked as an unlicensed physical therapist and therapist, providing unnecessary “treatment” for patients in two Brooklyn clinics for kickbacks in Medicaid, writes Brooklyn eagle.

The US Attorney’s Office and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office provided evidence of fraud in public health in Brooklyn. As a result, Judge Roslynn Masuskopf sentenced: 3 year in prison for his role in fraud Medicaid and Medicare.

She called the crime itself “endemic” in certain cultures.

“I do think that a significant custodial sentence is warranted in this case,” Mauskopf said in court. “These unlicensed therapists had no right to touch these patients.”

Receiving a salary of $ 270 604, Omelchenko worked in Prime Care on the Bay in Sheepshead Bay and Bensonhurst Mega Medical Careby providing unnecessary procedures for patients. Omelchenko then worked with licensed therapists to falsify documents and apply for public health programs.

As a result of exposing this fraudulent scheme, at least 15 convictions were issued, exposing the fraud to $ 55 million by false statements in Medicare and Medicaid between 2008 and 2011 year. Of these funds, taxpayers paid $ 17 million.

Omelchenko’s lawyer, Michael Finman, argued that the defendant should have been sentenced to house arrest because he received the least reward on the original indictment.

However, Mauskopf considered his guilt more serious and noted that Omelchenko's wife, who was not charged, also received compensation in the amount of $ 265 286 for fraud.

23 April Omelchenko will go to jail.

Recently, the Brooklyn district prosecutor’s office accused 20 of a fraudulent scheme of almost $ 150 million, which involved clinics in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Shephershead Bay, Canarsie, Gravesend and Corona Heights.

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