Armenian sentenced for Medicare fraud

An Armenian man will spend six years in federal prison for his part in a Charleston-based Medicare fraud scheme that threatened to cost the government more than $4 million in false health-care claims, The Charleston Gazette reported.

On Tuesday, US District Judge John T Copenhaver sentenced Sargis Tadevosyan, 42, to six years in prison on counts of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit health-care fraud.

During a weeklong trial in November, prosecutors said Tadevosyan supplied two Russian immigrants with fake identification documents and drove them from New York to Charleston to make a change to a bank account affiliated with one of six fake health-care clinics around town.


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