From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15818851/crimes-lavish-lifestyle-husband-fleeced-bllion-taxpayers.html

A healthcare software company CEO was found guilty of fleecing
around $1 billion of taxpayer cash in a 'cold, calculated' scheme,
all while flaunting his and his wife's lavish lifestyle online.

Brett Blackman, 42, was convicted of fraud on Wednesday after he
and co-conspirators conned Medicare patients with bogus
prescriptions and unnecessary medical expenditures from around
2015 to 2020.

HealthSplash owner and CEO Blackman and his co-conspirators
'aggressively targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare
beneficiaries to get them to accept medically unnecessary
products including orthotic braces, according to the
Department of Justice.

'This illegitimate operation stole more than $1 billion from
American taxpayers - including hundreds of thousands of
Medicare beneficiaries. This was [a] cold, calculated,
industrial-scale theft targeting the sick and elderly,
coercing vulnerable people into buying unnecessary medical
equipment,' the DOJ stated.

. . .

This sort of bullshit started even longer before -
remember all those 'scooter' and electric wheelchair
ads on TV ... "NO cost to you - we bill Medicare !".

Always wondered WHAT they billed Medicare - probably
25 times what the things were really worth.

Well ... at least this shithead spent it on himself
instead of sending it all to Islamist terrorists.

Where'd all the health money go ? Wasn't Trump - it
has been MASSIVE ongoing FRAUD ... now apparently
with helpful ignorance (maybe NOT so ignorant) from
federal/state/local officials.

I see the Somali pirates are at it again, preying on
ships delayed by the Iran thing. How many of their
go-fast boats were bought by Omar and friends ?

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