4 NYC area doctors among 20 charged in massive health care fraud scheme

and a surgeon who works for the NYPD is one of nearly three dozen people now charged in a massive health care fraud case prosecutors say the ring knitted more than 146 million dollars and used some of that cash to buy luxury items like multi-million dollar homes here's Howard Nazir's reporter Stacey Sankar every taxpayer who cares about publicly funded health care should be as angry as I am about what these defendants allegedly did as they held their heads

down in court late today prosecutors here in Brooklyn were busy showing off the luxury items that some of the defendants had allegedly bragged about what's now amounted to the largest Medicaid fraud case here in Brooklyn ever 20 people named so far four of them doctors including one who was a practicing surgeon for the NYPD they're all accused in an organized scheme which built the systems designed to protect New York's most vulnerable people predators subjected them to medically

unnecessary tests and billed the government for tests that were never given to them they say it worked this way recruiters would even go to a soup kitchen or a job Center here in Brooklyn to pull in patients who had Medicaid or Medicare cards the so called patients at six different clinics were then given small kickbacks for the unnecessary or even imaginary medical tests the doctors allegedly signing off on thousands and thousands of them but it's about taking

taxpayer dollars and saving taxpayer dollars for the very worthy objectives that that they're supposed to be spent on the alleged ringleader 35 year old Christina Mir baby Ava arrested today in her Brooklyn Heights penthouse I understand she was not happy now if convicted she and the others could face up to 25 years behind bars