The Justice Department issued the following statement.
A Mississippi man who owned, operated, had financial interests in, or was affiliated with pharmacies, durable medical equipment (DME) companies, and a laboratory today admitted his role in a health care fraud scheme that caused losses to Medicare in excess of $51 million, Attorney for the United States Caroline Sadlowski announced. Keaton Langston, 39, of Booneville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael E. Farbiarz in Newark federal court to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court: Langston and others owned, operated, had financial interests in, or were affiliated with pharmacies, DME companies, and a laboratory that Langston and others used to defraud health care benefit programs by offering and paying kickbacks and bribes in exchange for doctors’ orders for DME, genetic cancer screening tests, and compounded medications. The pharmacies, DME companies, and laboratory submitted or caused the submission to Medicare of claims for reimbursement without regard to medical necessity, and sent a portion of the proceeds to others as payment for the doctors’ orders generated through the conspiracy. Langston and others concealed the payment of bribes, in part, by entering into sham contracts designed to make it appear that suppliers were engaged in and being paid for legitimate marketing and referral services based on the hours and expenses incurred or on a flat-rate basis. The pharmacies, DME companies, and laboratory billed Medicare and other health care benefit programs at approximately $51 million for tests and orders that were the product of the illicit scheme. Langston received approximately $10 million from these reimbursements. The charge of conspiracy to commit health care fraud is punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense, whichever is greatest. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 1, 2024. Attorney for the United States Sadlowski credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James E. Dennehy in Newark; the Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Naomi Gruchacz; the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Inspector General, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Brian J. Solecki; and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Christopher F. Algieri with the investigation leading to the guilty plea. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Specht of the Special Prosecutions Division.Kingfish note: Langston is the son of Dickie Scruggs scoundrel Joey Langston. The former lawyer went to prison for conspiracy to bribe a judge in 2008. The New York Post published a nice little story on Jim Biden's angle in this mess.
19 comments:
Maybe someone would like to point out Jim Biden's involvement in all of this!
One confusing aspect: were the Doctors' Orders fraudulent or were Doctors paid to participate in a knowingly illicit scam?
How long did Joey Langston serve in prison?
John Spivey just got indicted for Medicare fraud ….tens of millions
Little Langston goes to jail in club fed for 26 months…..gets a tan and works in his back hand.
Little Langston gets out and on paper paid restitution of some amount but most is unpaid.
Little Langston has bitcoin password and can access those millions anywhere in the world without worry.
Yall suckers still at work at 7:30 AM?
The Langstons done retired and gonna be spending time all over the world.
Only one as good? Tater has 10 mm in his campaign accounts and he can pay taxes on it and join the Langstons anywhere in the world.
Yall work through lunch today ….I know it’s hot but you gotta earn that $22.
When did that family tree branch off into criminal activity?
10:28, having a clean conscience and doing the right thing is worth more than all that money. What you do on this Earth matters, you are judged for it in the end. H
You would think, after seeing the huge case involving Scruggs, Balducci, Langston, Backstrom, and Patterson, that Langston's son would make a different choice.
9:49 - Joey served 24 months of a 36 month sentence at the federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He was also fined $250,000.
In the wake of his guilty plea in the Hinds County matter (Wilson v. Scruggs), he also liquidated a number of assets, including his family's ski chalet near Telluride (which was valued at nearly $9 million), and his Raytheon 390 Premier IA executive aircraft (valued at around $5.5 million).
12:17, where did the money go?
Biden's mouth piece stated that this is a vast right wing conspiracy.
12:43 - He likely had a mortgage on the Telluride property, which he no doubt wanted get out from under. The asking price was $8.9 million, and it sold in 2010 for around $6.2 million.
The aircraft was acquired by BancorpSouth Equipment Finance, which I assume had financed it. They took possession within a month of his guilty plea.
I believe Joey still has annual income from structured settlements from asbestosis and tobacco litigation, and well as a couple of personal injury lawsuits he had won.
They all enjoy the grift that keeps on grifting. A lifetime of sheltered payoffs for protecting us all from lifesaving medicine, onshore jobs, and highly dangerous baby powder, water, and air. What patriots.
Maybe his cousin Casey will represent him.
2:!5, Yeah, how dare the damn trial lawyers deprive us of our rights to exploding cars, fen-phen-induced heart valve transplants, asbestos houses, smoking on airplanes, and benzene in our drinking water. Bastards.
Thank you, 6:10. And don’t forget that baby powder won’t be a source of ovarian cancer now. Nasty trial lawyers!
10:28 - call me when you get in trouble. Sounds like you got plenty money and can afford a healthy retainer. It’s not $22/hour I promise. But with an attitude like that, you’ll need me or one of my colleagues eventually.
8:16 pm
You failed to understand 10:28 am entirely. Like missed the whole post by a mile.
Read it again…literally. Think literature and prose and word positioning.
He wasn’t saying a word about lawyers….so simmer down Atticus
@8:16
If you’re going to advertise, then put your number out there (I might need you).
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