Detroit DOJ Makes $26 Million Bust And Did Not Invite Me To Party

Hey DOJ, Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare!!!!!
They launder it through political campaigns!!!!
Then launder it again through non-profits!!!!
Then they launder it again through real properties!!!!

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who had been consistently calling out Medicaid fraud in child welfare to fund political campaigns.

Consistently, vociferously, for years, yet she was ignored.

Then one day, the lovely Downtown Detroit boys and girls with big shiney badges had a party and forgot to invite me.

Saddy face.

So, what had happened was....

I decided to snitch on Johnny because he was a really naughty boy.

Little Johnny was laundering lots of his ill-gotten gains of Medicare (and Medicaid, too) false claims through political campaigns, like the Committee To Elect Judge Shelia Johnson Supreme Court.

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CTE JDG SHELIA JOHNSON SUPREME COURT  515806-CAN

DIRECT

JOHN TROTTER 20905 GREENFIELD PHYSICIAN-JTPFS MGT LLC

SOUTHFIELD MI 48075-0000

05/29/12

$3,400.00

Judge Shelia Johnson had no idea of what was going on and the amounts far exceeded what were reported to the Michigan Secretary of State Campaign Finance.

She was being used.

The meanies like to use people like her.

The Treasurer of her campaign was Jim Lancaster.

Jim Lancaster worked with Ed Sarpolus.

Jim Lancaster, Ed Sarpolus and William Isaac Robinson were really, really, really, super mean to my Sweetie.

So were a few more individuals in the Ivory Tower of Congress, the Michigan Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee, and another jack-legged non-profit, of whom I shall not name at this time, continue being mean to my Sweetie, but you can watch the video, below, to get an idea of how the fraud scheme of Medicaid in political campaigns operates.

The moral of the story is...

Do not be mean to my Sweetie, period.

Besides, I know what they did with the money and the lovely boys and girls with pretty shiney badges, all over the world already know, too, because I have a really big mouth and I am going to make sure they never forget to invite me to another party, ever again.

Stay tuned.

Michigan Doctor and Owner of Medical Billing Company Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for $26 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

A Detroit-area doctor was sentenced to 180 months in prison today for his role in a $26 million health care fraud scheme that involved billing Medicare for nerve block injections that were never provided and efforts to circumvent Medicare’s investigation of the fraudulent scheme.  A co-conspirator who owned a medical billing company was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison. 

Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch of the Eastern District of Michigan, Special Agent in Charge David P. Gelios of the FBI’s Detroit Division, Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Chicago Regional Office and Special Agent in Charge Manny Muriel of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) made the announcement.

Johnny Trotter M.D., 42, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge George C. Steeh of the Eastern District of Michigan.  The owner of the medical billing company, Elaine Lovett, 61, of Detroit, was sentenced by Judge Steeh on Sept. 26.  Judge Steeh also ordered each defendant to pay $9,199,946 in restitution and scheduled a hearing tomorrow on forfeiture.  Trotter and Lovett were convicted in April 2017 after a four-week jury trial of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and three counts of health care fraud.  Trotter was remanded to custody pending a detention hearing tomorrow.      

According to the evidence presented at trial, from May 2008 until May 2014, Trotter and Lovett knowingly submitted fraudulent bills for services that they knew had not been provided, mainly nerve block injections.  Additionally, after Medicare imposed a requirement in 2009 that required Trotter’s claims to undergo a medical review prior to payment, Trotter and Lovett conspired to circumvent Medicare’s fraud investigation of Trotter by creating sham medical practices, the evidence showed.  To continue to receive payment for services that were not provided, Trotter and Lovett concealed their involvement with these practices from Medicare, and instead recruited their family members and employees to serve as straw owners of the companies, the evidence further showed.  

The FBI, HHS-OIG and IRS-CI investigated the case, which was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force under the supervision of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.  Fraud Section Assistant Chiefs Malisa Dubal and Allan Medina, as well as Trial Attorneys Tom Tynan and Jacob Foster, prosecuted the case. 

The Fraud Section leads the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which is part of a joint initiative between the Department of Justice and HHS to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country.  The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operates in nine locations nationwide.  Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged over 3,500 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for over $12.5 billion. 

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