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Fraud Ring Had Bronx Bus Company With
Absent Drivers Now Guilty Pleas in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 30 – Yesenia Rodriguez,
Julio Alvarado and others were
charged in a Medicaid fraud
conspiracy.
On June 29, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Kimba M. Wood held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
The scheme
described in the complaint
involves KJ Transportation C
Services Inc., offering "non
emergency medical
transportation" with an office
in The Bronx.
There were fake
addresses in Brooklyn used,
and a listed driver who was
not even the US at the
time.
Jump cut to
August 5, 2022 in the
Magistrates Court, with Inner
City Press the only media
present. Co-defendant Julio
Alvarado, with a CJA lawyer,
pled guilty before Magistrate
Judge Katharine H. Parker with
a guideline of 97 to 120
months, and agreed to forfeit
$8,507,115.19.
If
he has that, how does he have
a taxpayer funded public
defender? Is the forfeiture a
legal fiction? Ten years is a
long time.
Yesenia
Rodriguez, who missed an
August 2 telephone appearance,
was to have come in at 11:30
am. She signed a consent to
plead before a Magistrate
Judge.
The overall case
is US v. Abreu Gil et al.,
20-cr-199 (Wood)
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