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The Department of Justice’s unveiling this week of sweeping charges
against more than 300 defendants who allegedly defrauded Medicare and
other taxpayer-funded programs came as part of the department’s annual “takedown” event.
The healthcare fraud takedowns have been a practice at the DOJ for more
than a decade, but officials touted this one as the largest on record. It
stood out not only for its size but also because it focused on
transnational criminals and broached artificial intelligence.
“This takedown represents the largest healthcare fraud takedown in
American history,” DOJ Criminal Division head Matthew Galeotti said. “But
it’s not the end. It’s the beginning of a new era of aggressive
prosecution and data-driven prevention.”
This year’s operation led to 324 defendants being charged for submitting billions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent healthcare claims, including
for medical care that patients never ended up receiving or that they
received unnecessarily.
A DOJ official told reporters after the announcement that the work was “strategically coordinated” so that the takedown involved “all new
indictments, complaints, [and] informations.”
Charges were brought across 50 federal districts and, according to the official, all were brought or unsealed during a three-week period leading
up to the takedown announcement.
Galeotti said the intended false claims totaled $14.6 billion, and the
actual losses reached $2.9 billion.
Another DOJ official told Fox News Digital the purpose of the annual
takedowns is “to raise public awareness and deter wrongdoers from engaging
in this crime.” The official noted that Operation Brace Yourself, a 2019 takedown, led to an estimated reduction of $1.9 billion being charged to Medicare for certain types of orthotic braces.
“Every fraudulent claim, every fake billing, every kickback scheme
represents money taken directly from the pockets of American taxpayers,
who fund these essential programs through their hard work and sacrifice,” Galeotti said.
International scam
The charges announced this week spanned the globe, and DOJ officials said
that in addition to four arrested in Estonia and another seven arrested at airports or the U.S.-Mexico border, the department was working to
extradite others overseas who are accused of crimes.
https://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/healthcare-fraud- takedown-graphi.jpg
The 2025 National Healthcare Fraud Takedown uncovered $14.6 billion in
fraud losses, resulting in 324 individuals being charged with crimes. (Department of Justice)
Those defendants were part of an alleged scheme coined “Operation Gold
Rush,” which resulted in at least 20 members of a transnational criminal organization, including defendants based in Russia, being charged as part
of a Medicare and money laundering operation that centered on catheters.
The group behind the scheme allegedly used foreign ownership entities to
buy dozens of medical supply companies and then used stolen identities and confidential health data to create and file $10.6 billion in claims with Medicare.
“We are seeing a disturbing trend of transnational criminal organizations engaging in increasingly sophisticated and complex criminal schemes that defraud the American healthcare system,” Galeotti said.
Two owners of Pakistani marketing organizations were among those charged
in an alleged $703 million scheme in which they used artificial
intelligence to create fake recordings of Medicare recipients consenting
to receive medical supplies.
“We are concerned about the criminals’ advancement in technology here, obviously,” Galeotti said.
Read more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/how-justice-department-carried-out-14-6- billion-healthcare-fraud-takedown
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/they-billed-the-dying-inside-the-14- 6-billion-healthcare-holocaust-you-paid-for/
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