Medicaid
Fraud Ring Had Bronx Bus Company With
Absent Drivers Plea Then CJA Denied
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 18 – 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.
Jump cut to May
2024 - co-defendant Julio
Alvarado had mailed to him the
denial of his request for
a(nother) CJA lawyer, to
pursue an ineffective counsel
claims under 28 USC 2255,
citing Pennsylvania v. Finley,
481 U.S. 551, 555 (1987).
The overall case
is US v. Abreu Gil et al.,
20-cr-199 (Wood)
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