Its amazing the creativity and gall of people in control of the bank accounts and bill paying mechanism at corporations. “Prosecutors say Mr. MacGregor defrauded his former employer, which is identified in the documents as a company that “provided medical laboratory directorship and pathology services to hospitals and clinics and operated an independent lab.” He diverted at least 122 checks payable to the employer into bank accounts he controlled, according to an Aug. 21 Justice Department news release. “[He] did this by creating a shell corporation that had a business name similar to the name of his employer and depositing the checks into bank accounts that he opened in the name of the shell corporation,” the release said. “MacGregor then presented false financial information to the company’s president and shareholders causing them to believe they had received the monies he diverted.”
The former CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa, was been sentenced to 41 months in prison for defrauding his former California employer out of more than $3.2 million. This sentence was for one count of wire fraud. He was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,217,456.41 in restitution. Embezzlement is stealing, just by an insider. This high level insider created a fake company, to create fake invoices that the company paid. He then lied about it to his existing company a total of 122 representing the number of checks he wrote to his own company paying fake invoices he created. Fraud is fraud.
Health care fraud is easily discoverable due to the sustainability of federal or state CMS or PBM audits. Call me to discuss your criminal case.
