New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

Child support payments in Texas didn’t make it to the receiver because of a child support scam that has three suspects. The three pleaded guilty to the crime of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft last Tuesday. They worked for a company that processing child support payments for the state of Texas, reported a New York City Criminal Lawyer. The face 20 years in prison for these charges.

The 3 that plead guilty are among 13 involved in this case. The state of Texas had an 18.2 million dollar contract with Affiliated Computer Services for the child support payments. AFC issued Texas debit cards to child support recipient's. The 13 people accused in this case took advantage of this contract to pay themselves money, claims a reporter. They actually gave these debit cards to there friends and people they knew in order to pay themselves things.

ACS had been recently bought by Xerox. The new company has paid back the victims at least $275,000, according to the attorney generals office.

According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, 6 different employees accessed the computer system to get the victims addresses and other client information to give the stolen information to friends to call in and get the debit cards sent to them. This fraud and deception all happened between October 2008 and June 2010. Two of the defendants are still awaiting trial. The trial should be in March of this year. Nassau and Suffolk Counties have similar laws.

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A health care fraud conviction involving an Oakland woman was announced Wednesday by federal authorities, according to a NY Criminal Lawyer. This is a medicare scheme. She billed medicare for electric wheelchairs that are considered medically unnecessary.

A one week trial that took place in a California court led to a conviction of health care fraud for this 52 year old woman according to the Human Services department. She will soon be sentenced and could get up to ten years in prison. She will only be sentenced for 1 count as jurors through out the other two counts.

This lady took advantage of the low income elderly in order to bill Medicare for this equipment that was not wanted or needed. She approached people on the street, in nursing homes, and in their homes offering a free power wheelchair if they would hand over all the necessary identification cards including Medicare information. The trial included witnesses from that worked at the San Pablo Hotel, where this lady would sit for long periods of time just waiting for people to come through the lobby that she could approach about these power wheelchairs.

Testimony from an Oakland doctor indicated that this woman had falsified prescriptions that this doctor knew nothing about and for people he had never seen. These prescriptions involved the Los Angeles clinic.

She often sold this Medicare information to local companies that could bill for these electric wheelchairs. One company involved was Maydads Medical Supply of Arleta. This company billed almost a half million in these false claims over an18 month period of time. This type of fraud happens all over and in places like Nassau and Suffolk Counties also.

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George Georgiou, a former Toronto stock broker, was involved in a multi-million dollar stock scam and sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison. He was sentenced by a Philadelphia judge on Friday for this international scam which involved Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean.

This 40 year old former stock broker has to pay 55 million dollars in restitution for this criminal act. Fraud is a common crime in places like Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

A February conviction of conspiracy, wire fraud, and securities fraud, carried a maximum sentence of 165 years, reported by a New York Criminal Lawyer. Because of this conviction the stock broker was banned from trading in Canada for a 10 year period.

During his trial we learned that he did business with Fercan Developments of Toronto. The former Molson Brewery on Highway 400 in Barrie, is now owned by Fercan. That was the location of a major marijuana bust.

Georgiou tried to live with a Philadelphia priest and pay for his own monitoring, but the court didn’t allow it, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Georgiou is considered a danger to society because of all his outlaw connections.

One of the witnesses said Georgiou made threats against him. This witness was advised he should "sleep with one eye open" and even made threats about breaking his legs because this is New York and not Canada.

A NYC Criminal Lawyer said Georgiou tried to have secret meetings so he couldn’t be recorded. He even tried to meet in a hot tub.

He is accused of altering the worth and value for stock of four different companies: Neutron Enterprises Inc., Avicena Group Inc., Northern Ethanol Inc. and Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc.

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