United States v. Abdallah

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

This Medicare and Medicaid fraud case arises out of ambulance transportation of individuals to and from regularly scheduled, nonemergency dialysis treatments. The individuals transported all suffered from renal disease. The government alleged that Mazen and Wesam Abdallah, brothers who purchased and operated an ambulance service from the codefendants, committed fraud and conspiracy to defraud by submitting claims for payment by Medicare and Medicaid for regularly scheduled nonemergency ambulance transports to and from dialysis of patients…