Assistant AG McDonald on Fraudster Busted in $1B Medicare Scam: The Fed Gov’t Needs To Be ‘Laser Focused’ on Fraud

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MCDONALD: “This case really demonstrates the need for the federal government to be laser-focused on the fraud that is pervasive across our country. What this case involved was a series of sophisticated fraudsters who teamed together to prey on the elderly, the sick and the vulnerable in the United States, utilizing call centers in the Philippines, using telemarketing campaigns to call Medicare beneficiaries to then ask them whether they had certain health problems that might require certain medical equipment. When these individuals would then respond to those telemarketing campaigns, they would actually call a call center in the Philippines where these individuals in the Philippines were part of this scam, to then ask the elderly, does your knee hurt?”