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In Maine, a man was sentenced
to 6 months home confinement and ordered to pay $77,700 in restitution
for causing another to file a false statement. Although the
man was excluded from participating in Federal health care programs,
he sought and received employment with a facility that received Medicaid
program funds. By failing to disclose that he was an excluded
individual, the facility’s cost reports included unallowable
salary and benefit costs. The facility terminated the man
after learning of his exclusion.
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In
Georgia, pursuant to her guilty plea, a former Senior Executive Service
(SES) employee was sentenced for theft of Government property. The
woman, who was a senior management official at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), was sentenced to 480 hours of community
service and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution and fines. Through
a CDC audit, questionable charges on 34 travel vouchers were discovered. Subsequently,
the OIG investigation revealed that the woman concealed fraudulent
personal charges and claimed them on her travel vouchers as official
business expenses. Many of the charges she labeled as fax,
photocopy, or business center charges were actually for room service.
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