7thspace.com on January 13, 2012 reported that an owner and a patient recruiter for a Louisiana durable medical equipment (DME) company were sentenced today to 60 and 55 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a $4.7 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FBI and the Louisiana State Attorney General’s Office. Nnanta Felix Ngari, the owner and operator of Unique Medical Solutions, and Ernest Payne, a patient recruiter for Unique, were also sentenced by United States District Judge James J. Brady of the Middle District of Louisiana to serve two years of supervised release following their prison terms. Ngari and Payne’s co-conspirator, Sofjan Lamid, was sentenced today by Judge Brady to three years of probation. Ngari, Payne and Lamid were also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution, jointly and severally with co-defendants.

The original article can be found at 7thspace.com.