(Balita News Service) - A second Filipino was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison for her role in a health care fraud scheme that cost Medicare over $3 million.
Haydee Parungao was also was sentenced for the structuring of cash transactions, conducted to avoid IRS reporting requirements, totaling $613,710, according to a statement released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-Criminal Investigation.
In the sentencing decision, US District Judge Dale S. Fischer ordered Parungao to pay restitution to Medicare in the amount of $3,099,835.89 and directed to spend three years on supervised release after completing her prison sentence.
Parungao becomes the second Filipino to fall in an inter-agency investigation—by the IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), through its Health Care Fraud Unit in Los Angeles —probing widespread fraud in the booming home health industry.
On Oct. 16, Lourdes Perez was sentenced to 46 months in prison for her role in defrauding Medicare out of $40 million and for filing false tax returns that concealed her ill-gotten gains.
Haydee Parungao was also was sentenced for the structuring of cash transactions, conducted to avoid IRS reporting requirements, totaling $613,710, according to a statement released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-Criminal Investigation.
In the sentencing decision, US District Judge Dale S. Fischer ordered Parungao to pay restitution to Medicare in the amount of $3,099,835.89 and directed to spend three years on supervised release after completing her prison sentence.
Parungao becomes the second Filipino to fall in an inter-agency investigation—by the IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), through its Health Care Fraud Unit in Los Angeles —probing widespread fraud in the booming home health industry.
On Oct. 16, Lourdes Perez was sentenced to 46 months in prison for her role in defrauding Medicare out of $40 million and for filing false tax returns that concealed her ill-gotten gains.
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