Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Kazarian and gang arrested by feds for Medicare health insurance scam

Many Americans 65 and older depend upon Medicare for their health care insurance coverage. Thus, when a criminal like Armen Kazarian tries to take advantage of the elderly via a Medicare scam, The United States ought to take notice. The Armenian vor (godfather) and his gang are being accused of not only the largest Medicare fraudulence case in the history of United States of America organized crime, however various other offenses. Post resource – Armenian vor Armen Kazarian nabbed on Medicare fraud charges by Personal Money Store.

Kazarian’s coast-to-coast functioning

Armen Kazarian stole over $ 160 million in fake Medicare invoices. United States Attorney Preet Bharara explained that 118 face medical clinics in 25 states were used to do this. Rented mailboxes and addresses were used for the designed clinics for most of the invoices. All told, more than $ 35 million in taxpayer cash went toward the fake bills Kazarian’s men generated out of an office above a Brooklyn, N.Y., auto-body business. People on fixed income can start needing short term installment loans with things like this.

There had been lots of extortion, disembowelment and money laundering

In California, Georgia, New Mexico and Ohio you will find defendants being charged. The Post accounts that you will find 73 total defendants. 35 year old Robert Terdjanian of Brooklyn is one of the defendants. Of Armen Kazarian’s gang on the East Coast, he was the ring leader. He is being charge for threatening to disembowel one of his victims while also with the normal allegations on everyone else. In Los Angeles, Davit Mirzoyan had been in charge of other illegal activity. He was in charge of the illegal narcotics being sold along with the untaxed Viagra and cigarettes. Bogus automotive insurance says were filed by strippers. These strippers were hired by Aron Chervin. Many suspects are in trouble for purchasing Las Vegas casino chips which led to money washing.

What occurred with the recording

Reportedly the first vor ever charged with racketeering in the United States, Kazarian, 46, had been surreptitiously recorded by federal authorities making threats against those Medicare health insurance patients who failed to pay his racket’s fake medical bills. The Armenians are all planning to plead not guilty. This is what their lawyers have all explained clearly.

Articles cited

New York Post

nypost.com/p/news/local/mediscam_9QQ5NRf3pvykHFF0fecg2I



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