USA: Medical clinic owner convicted of Medicaid fraud

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justice.gov on October 07, 2011 reported that Martin Tasis was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his leading role in a $9.1 million Detroit-area Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tasis was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow in the Eastern District of Michigan. In addition to his prison term, Tasis was sentenced to three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $6 million in restitution, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators. Martin Tasis and co-defendants Joaquin Tasis and Leoncio Alayon were convicted by a jury in May 2011 after a five-day trial. Evidence presented at trial showed that the Tasis brothers and their co-conspirators helped relocate a highly lucrative infusion therapy fraud scheme to Michigan from South Florida after increased law enforcement scrutiny there.

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