| In Medicaid Fraud Case
Couple Detained As Others Freed By SDNY
Magistrate Judge Lehrburger
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 14 – A Medicaid fraud
conspiracy was alleged and
presented on February 14 in
the Magistrates Court of the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
and Inner City Press was
there.
Some defendants
were freed on bond; others
were detained. One was
presented by Facetime from a
hospital, where he was allowed
to stay.
First here's what
was alleged in the Complaint,
then some dispositions: "From
in or about August 2017 to
February 2020, KJ
Transportation C Services Inc.
('KJ') was paid more than $20
million for providing
transportation services for
Medicaid enrollees in the New
York City area.
JORGELINA ABREU GIL, 32, of
Yonkers, New York, is the
owner of KJ. Her
husband, JULIO ALVARADO, 59,
of Yonkers, is a manager at
the company. Beginning
in August 2017, KJ began
submitting claims to Medicaid
for purported medical
transportation services for
eligible people in the New
York area."
On February
14 before SDNY Magistrate
Judge Robert W. Lehrburger,
Julio Alvarado consented to
detention. Judge Lehburger
said that with Julio
immobilized, there would be
less of a risk of flight by
his wife Jorgelina Abreu Gil.
But she too consented to
detention, at least until Pre
Trial Services conducts a home
inspection.
Defense attorney
Sabrina Shroff got her client
Yesinia Rodriguez a reduction
in the conditions offered by
Assistant US Attorney Kedar S.
Bhatia, from $50,000 with two
financial responsible people
as co-signers to $20,000 and 1
co-signer.
Other CJA
counsel, like Lisa Scolari for
Jose Jiminez Hidalgo, stuck
with the same cookie-cutter
$50,000 and two co-signers
that AUSA Bhatia was offering.
The case is US v. Abreu Gil,
et al., 20-mg-1461
(Lehburger).
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