Exhibit from court docket document: 2018 Red Ferrari Spider.
Source: U.S. DOJ
A Miami federal choose ordered a lab owner convicted of defrauding Medicare to forfeit greater than $187 million value of proceeds from the rip-off, together with $30 million in money, a 2018 Ferrari Spider and actual property, the Department of Justice stated Wednesday.
The lab owner, Minal Patel of Atlanta, was sentenced in August to 27 years in jail for submitting almost $500 million in false claims to Medicare for stylish, and costly, most cancers genetic checks.
Medicare is the federally run program that gives well being protection to primarily older Americans.
The DOJ stated Wednesday that the 44-year-old Patel conspired with telemedicine corporations, name facilities and affected person brokers to persuade Medicare beneficiaries to take the genetic checks via his firm LabSolutions.
Telemedicine docs robo-signed prescriptions for the checks though they didn’t consider the sufferers and sometimes didn’t even communicate to them, in accordance to the DOJ.
Medicare paid out greater than $187 million in false claims for the checks.
In addition to the Ferrari, which he purchased for almost $400,000, Patel additionally will forfeit a Land Rover Range Rover that he bought for $215,000, in accordance to court docket paperwork.