Trump administration charges 455 people, including doctors, with $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

In the Trump administration's latest effort to crack down on fraud, the Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled charges against 455 people for their alleged participation in healthcare fraud and opioid abuse schemes.

The defendants, who included 90 doctors and other healthcare professionals, were involved in $6.5 billion worth of fraud that involved false claims and resulted in significant harm to patients, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

"This is just the beginning. Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press conference Tuesday. "If you seek to harm or cheat Americans, we will find you, seize any assets and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."

Officials highlighted one defendant who they claim rubber stamped a student's cardiovascular test as normal without alerting the family that his heart was enlarged. The 18-year-old college basketball player, Kaiden Francis, died weeks later during a workout.



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I thought Brainworm endorsed opiates

[Lovie777]

1. AG and DOJ suck..............

majority of the convictions will be dismissed.

They need to look in the mirror.

[larwdem]

2. Sounds more like malpractice

[kurtyboy]

13. Right?!?!

How in the actual f&^k is that fraud?

Fraud would be if the patient were healthy, and the diagnosis said he was not, leading to escalating tests, treatment, and charges.

Am I missing something here? And why is that the case the DOJ decided to highlight?

[LymphocyteLover]

19. exactly my thought... but who knows what these completely moronic incompetent and corrupt people are doing

[LisaL]

21. Exactly.

That doesn't sound like fraud at all. If he was actually tested, and warning signs missed, how is that fraud? That certainly doesn't indicate fraud.
It should be a civil malpractice lawsuit from the family, not criminal charges?

[LymphocyteLover]

18. my thought exactly

[Progressive dog]

26. They have a new definition of fraud.

It means whatever Trump says it means, subject to change at any time.

[yellow dahlia]

3. "If you seek to harm or cheat Americans, we will find you, seize any assets and prosecute you..."

Right. Only those of us in the regime are permitted harm or cheat Americans.

BTW - does anyone else see the opportunity for abuse of power and selective targeting?

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. Yes. (n/t)

[MoseShrute]

17. BUT...

If you pay the right price you can get a pardon.

[yellow dahlia]

25. Oh right - charge people so you can extort them. Of course!

Silly me. I momentarily forgot that absolutely everything is graft and corruption. To breath is to grift.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Are any of them guilty?

One never knows lately.

[sheshe2]

5. You and trump and the entire admin do just that on a daily basis.

"This is just the beginning. Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

Go arrest yourselves!

[sakabatou]

6. The whole administration should just throw themselves in jail

[sheshe2]

8. I wish!

[LymphocyteLover]

20. Right??? These MFers are such lying fraudsters. We can't trust anything they say.

[sheshe2]

23. It's what trump and his ilk do every day!

Blanche: "If you seek to harm or cheat Americans, we will find you, seize any assets and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."

[ToxMarz]

7. Well with $6.5 billion at least they will be able to afford their pardons.

[not fooled]

9. Smells like they are trying to gin up opposition to the gubmint helping pay for healthcare

I tell maggot and nonvoting acquaintances that the GQPee doesn't want to pay for healthcare for the non-wealthy. Krasnov's regime is trying to convince the public that government payment for healthcare is a bad thing.

[hadEnuf]

10. If it comes from Blanche, it is bullshit.

Fuck him and his kangaroo courts.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. "Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers." Except for the Trump crime family, of course.

[Wonder Why]

12. Competition with the TACO King is not permitted

[58Sunliner]

14. Don't cheat the cheaters.

[MichMan]

15. The money was stolen from taxpayers

[58Sunliner]

22. This administration has stolen from the taxpayers as well. I doubt that they care about us.

[LymphocyteLover]

24. Any comment from Senator Rick Scott?

[Bengus81]

27. $6.5 billion? Rick Scott and his company ripped off Medicare for $1.7 billion all by himself

But...Trump can look the other way on THAT fraud.