"Two Brooklyn scammers pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding a whopping $68 million from the state's controversial Medicaid home care program by paying health care kickbacks for services they didn't provide at three Big Apple businesses. Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud for referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day cares and a home health company in exchange for illegal kickbacks and bribes, the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday."
"Between October 2017 and July 2024, Wasef and Antao worked as marketers and recruiters for Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. and Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc., as well as Responsible Care Staffing Inc., a home health care fiscal intermediary, according to court documents. The pair paid illegal kickbacks and bribes to the Medicaid recipients for social adult day care services and home health care services at the locales - billing them to Medicaid despite never providing them, prosecutors said."
Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud for referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day cares and a home health fiscal intermediary in exchange for illegal kickbacks. From October 2017 to July 2024 they worked as marketers and recruiters for the day cares and the home health fiscal intermediary. They paid recipients kickbacks and billed Medicaid for day care and home health services that were never provided. They laundered proceeds through multiple business entities. The scheme generated over $68 million in fraudulent Medicaid billings. The defendants agreed to forfeit about $1 million.
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