LA Man Gets Prison For Homeless Medicare Fraud
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A patient recruiter has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for using homeless people from Los Angeles and San Diego to defraud Medicare.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that James Roland Fuquay would pay homeless people to go with him to fraudulent medical clinics and medical equipment companies to receive medical services and equipment they did not want or need.
Fuquay was known as "The Red, White & Blue Man," a reference to the colors on a Medicare card and the sales line he used: "Red, white, and blue. Let's make it do what it do."
He also must pay more than $550,000 in restitution and serve three years of probation.
Fuquay pleaded guilty last year to health care fraud conspiracy.
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