The Justice Department issued the following statement.
Marco Bisa Hawkins Moran, 45, of Clinton, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 120 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiring to commit health care fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi, Acting Special Agent in Charge Andrew M. Thornton of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge Cynthia Bruce of Defense Criminal Investigative Services (DCIS) Southeast Field Office, and Director Steven Maxwell of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN).
Moran was also ordered to pay a monetary judgment of $12,195,740, restitution in the amount of $22,096,697, and a $20,000 fine.
Between 2014 and 2016, Moran, as co-owner of Medworx Compounding and Custom Care Pharmacy, participated in a scheme to defraud TRICARE and other health care benefit programs, including those that provided coverage to employees of the City of Jackson, Mississippi. In total, the pharmacies submitted $22,068,144 in fraudulent claims to Tricare and other health care benefit programs. As part of the scheme, Moran and his co-conspirators, among other things, adjusted prescription formulas to ensure the highest reimbursement, paid marketers and physicians kickbacks and bribes to obtain prescriptions for high-yield compounded medications irrespective of whether they were medically necessary, and routinely waived and/or reduced the collection of copayments.
Moran was charged in a Criminal Information and pled guilty before Judge Starrett on September 13, 2018.
The FBI’s Jackson Field Office investigated the case with assistance from the IRS-CI, DCIS, and MBN. Principal Assistant Deputy Chief Dustin M. Davis and Trial Attorney Sara E. Porter of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathlyn R. Van Buskirk of the Southern District of Mississippi prosecuted the case.
10 comments:
Buried rolexes for miles
Yeah, I'd pay that after a few months. If I was in I'd have to laugh at the Judge, say goodbye forever to my family and become a ward of the Feds for the remainder of my life. Probably going to a Club Fed anyway.
Right. 34 mil.
Why are the feds always late to the party on shit like this? Can they stop the fraud and theft of taxpayer dollars before it gets to the point where it will never be paid back?
Ludicrous
4:11 pm
That’s a great question and the answer seems to be no.
These guys billed TriCare which paid their bills as submitted. The audit didn’t occur for a few years so the crooks kept on submitting bills.
I have friends in the business who saw the crimes happen in real time (saw the fruits of theft - Porsches, jets, houses) and even alerted police agencies who tried to act.
It took time for the crimes to documented and here we are.
There will be more than one Rolex unearthed over the next few decades as Wade sits in his cell.
Chad Barrett ...paging Chad Barrett....come on down you are next in line to do 25 long and hard Rx thief.
He had some good products that were carried by Walmart. Got greedy. Sad.
Out the Docs who took kickbacks!
much more details HERE concerning the people involved.
https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/09/who-12-accused-compound-400-million-ms-compound-pharmacy-scheme/1664964002/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/twelve-indicted-kickback-conspiracy-former-ceo-pleads-guilty
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