Eight individuals were indicted for their alleged involvement in a $68 million scheme to defraud Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Oct. 9.
The indictment, unsealed in Brooklyn this week, accuses the defendants of operating two social adult daycare centers and a home health care financial intermediary that paid kickbacks and bribes for services not rendered.
According to court documents, Zakia Khan, 53, and Ahsan Ijaz, 27, owned Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. and Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc., respectively, along with Responsible Care Staffing Inc., a financial intermediary for the New York Medicaid Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services Program (CDPAP)….