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Owner of Medicare Billing Service Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison for Role in $170 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
April 19th, 2008
Miami resident Rita Campos Ramirez, 60, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in a $170 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced. The scheme represents the largest known individual case of Medicare fraud in the history of the program. Campos was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida by Judge Alan S. Gold. In addition to the prison sentence, Judge Gold ordered that the defendant be placed on three years of supervised release following her release from prison; forfeit...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-19)
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