"We have had some contact with other owners adjacent and to the west, fronting Grand Boulevard," Cummings said in an email about the property. Others charged were Yasser Mozeb, of Oakland County; Dr. Spilios Pappas of Lucas County, Ohio: Dr. Abdul Haq, of Washtenaw County; and Oakland County physicians Dr. Joseph Betro, Dr. Tariq Omar and Dr. Mohammed Zahoor, according to court documents. The Army, Navy, Marines, National Guard, U.S. Special Operations Command and National Security Agency also use cell-site simulators. Why is that a problem? Also involved was Mashiyat Rashid, Patinos business partner and part-owner of the clinics, who purchased private jet flights,tickets to NBA Finals games and real estate. This is American law.". Mashiyat Rashid was sentenced after pleading guilty in 2018 to money laundering and conspiracy to . While free on bond, Rashid violated bond by using a land-line phone and his wifes cellphone to make 137 calls, Foster wrote in a filing. Sentenced to20 months in prison; $2,722,760.95in restitution. Steven Adamczyk, M.D., 47, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was sentenced to 42 months in prison, and ordered to pay $1,237,570.97 in restitution in connection with his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of Tri-County Wellness Group of pain clinics and medical providers in Michigan and Ohio, will spend 15 years of his life in federal prison for his role in one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in the history of the United States. The spy device was used to track down Mashiyat Rashid, 37, of West Bloomfield Township, who owns the Tri-County Network, a group of seven medical clinics, massage therapy and pain management clinics, and a laboratory. A surgeon who allegedly got patients hooked on pain pills, then forced them to undergo painful procedures to get more pills.. The conspiracy generated so much money that Rashid withdrew $500,000 from a bank this summer and stuffed the cash in a duffel bag, the government said. Furthermore, it was revealed that Rashid only hired physicians who were willing to disregard patient care in the pursuit of money. Hina Qazi, 39, of Rochester Hills, owner of a home health agency: Pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with his payment of illegal kickbacks for the referral of patients for medically unnecessary home health services. "Whatever this case is or not, this is not an honor killing," he says. The spy device was used to track down Mashiyat Rashid, 37, of West Bloomfield Township, who owns the Tri-County Network, a group of seven medical clinics, massage therapy and pain management. All rights reserved. Since its inception in March 2007, the Health Care Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 15 strike forces operating in 24 districts, has charged more than 4,200 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for nearly $19 billion. For her, integrity is everything. Z.H College of Engineering & Technology, AMU, Aligarh. Kirk Pinho is a senior reporter covering commercial real estate. It sent a ripple through this swath of Bible Belt country. He says Rashid told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord, which he later burned and flushed down the toilet. The doctors working at the clinics agreed to work only a few hours a week to stay under the radar of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the department said, but were among the highest prescribers of oxycodone in Michigan. Official websites use .gov The scheme involved coercing patients at Tri County Wellness Group's clinics to submit to medically unnecessary and sometimes horribly painful back injections in order to get prescriptions for opioids. He used the ill-gotten gains on a $7 million mansion in Franklin, a Lamborghini and more. "This was the first time.". A cardiologist who turned into a drug dealer after facing bankruptcy. More information can be found at https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit. It is unconscionable that doctors and health care professionals would violate their oath to do no harm and exploit vulnerable patients struggling with addiction, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. hit the market with an $4 million ask, $1.4 million more than the $2.6 million health care CEO Mashiyat Rashid paid for it at the end of 2016, only about six months before his and his co-conspirators' scheme began to unravel as charges were filed in federal court in Detroit. The site sits across from The Platform's The Boulevard mixed-use apartment development, as well as just down the street from the Fisher Building, which the company co-owns and has been marketing for sale. To police, in other words, this was an honor killing. Police in Atlanta have been investigating the death of a 25-year-old Pakistani woman, who was allegedly murdered by her father in the name of family honor. The scheme involved coercing patients at Tri County Wellness Group's clinics to submit to medically unnecessary and sometimes horribly painful back injections in order to get prescriptions for opioids. The ACLU says police and law enforcement can gather information not only from a suspects phone but also from the phones of people who arent targeted. What other agencies are snooping? The clinics sometimes recruited people at homeless shelters to be able to bill for more of the costly procedures, which, over eight years, netted the clinics $300 million in reimbursements from Medicare and other groups. The Justice Department press release said the procedure sometimes produced pain greater than the purported pain they were experiencing in the first place, and in some others produced open holes in their backs. The evidence further established that the proceeds of the fraud were used to fuel lavish lifestyles. "We have gotten a lot of interested parties in it and even possibly some potential offers as well," she said. Opioid overdose deaths have growntenfold in Michigan since the year 2000, according to state government data, which recorded2,036 deaths in 2018. Then, at 1:55 a.m., Clayton County received a 911 call from a woman named Gina Rashid who was worried about her stepdaughter, Sandeela. Does the government have carte blanche authority to use the devices? Tariq Omar, 63, of Oakland County:Convicted at trial in 2020 for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and health care fraud. Mashiyat Rashid, the man who orchestrated a nightmarish Medicare fraud scheme in Michigan and Ohio, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Rashid also owned an office building at 2990 W. Grand Blvd. David Yangouyian, 58, of Farmington Hills: Pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Her father allegedly told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord because she wanted a divorce. An official website of the United States government. David Weaver, 67, of Canton: Pleadedguilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The justice department said that proceeds of the fraud were used to fund lavish lifestyles including jewelry, flights on private jets,cars, vacations and real estate. Then in December, the receiver for the property had a $3.925 million offer ($66.45 per square foot) from Birmingham-based The Barbat Organization, run by Duane Barbat, to purchase the building. The United Nations estimates around 5,000 deaths occur each year mostly of women, mostly in South Asia and the Middle East. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. In this circumstance, these medical professionals provided prescription drugs to those with no medical need. They're from Pakistan. Mohammed Zahoor, M.D., 53, of Oakland County, Michigan, convicted at trial in 2020 for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and health care fraud, was sentenced in February 2022 to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $36,645,577 in restitution. Accompanying the prison sentence is an order to pay over $51 million in restitution to Medicare in addition to forfeiting traceable proceeds of the health care fraud scheme to the United States (over $11.5 million, commercial real estate, residential real estate, and a Detroit Pistons season ticket membership. In Dallas, an Egyptian man is wanted by police, accused of murdering his two daughters, reportedly, because they had non-Muslim boyfriends. They're not speaking any English to me. These are not just crimes of greed, these are crimes that make this countrys opioid crisis even worse and that is why the department will continue to relentlessly pursue these cases., Patients look to physicians and medical professionals for their expertise and knowledge, trusting that they will do what is best to take care of them, said Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBIs Criminal Investigative Division. Sentenced in March 2021 to 15 years in prison; over $51. The sentences come days after the announcement that Michigan would receive about $800million of ahistoric $26 billion opioid settlementwithdrugmanufacturer Johnson & Johnson and three large distributors. Patients, including patients who were addicted to opioids, who told the doctors that they did not want, need, or benefit from the injections, were denied medication by the defendants and their co-conspirators until they agreed to submit to the expensive and unnecessary injections. The justice department said evidence showed doctors in the scheme pressured patients dealing with addiction to undergo unnecessary,expensive and sometimes painful back injections in order to be provided with opioids, including high-dosage prescription drugs like oxycodone. Christian says when police arrived at the house, they found the 57-year-old pizza shop owner sitting cross-legged in his driveway, smoking a cigarette. A dozen doctors and four individuals from Michigan and Ohio havereceived federal prison sentences and were slapped with hefty fines as part of a wide-ranging scheme that distributed6.6 million pills and submitted$250 million in false billings, officials announced Thursday. Among the extravagances: Hermes clothing, Richard Mille watches, a Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Franklin mansion and other real estate, including the five-story Boulevard West building. Tariq Omar, M.D., 63, of Oakland County, Michigan, convicted at trial in 2020 for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and health care fraud, was sentenced on March 9, to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $24,243,603 in restitution. WASHINGTON Mashiyat Rashid, 40, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, the fromer CEO of the Tri-County Wellness Group of medical providers in Michigan and Ohio was sentenced to 15 years in prison. FBI agents raided the building in July, among other locations. 2023 USA Herald, LLC. Renaming the building the "Detroit Opera House at the David DiChiera Center for the Performing Arts" was a nice touch! Assistant Chief Jacob Foster of the National Rapid Response Strike Force and Trial Attorneys Thomas Tynan, Steven Scott, Kathleen Cooperstein and Shankar Ramamurthy of the Justice Departments Fraud Section prosecuted the case. Francisco Patino, M.D., is scheduled to be sentenced on his. Sign up for our Commercial Real Estate Report newsletterto receive the latest news, exclusives and analysis right in your inbox. This case was investigated by the FBI, HHS-OIG and IRS-CI. 2,613 were here. Sentenced to 20 months in prison;$310,936.95 in restitution. But Begner isn't sure. That scheme involved false Medicare billing and distribution of over 4.2 doses of narcotics such as oxycodone. Prosecutors say the conspiracy involved recruiting homeless people as patients, sending phony bills to Medicare, subjecting drug addicts to unnecessary back injections and prescribing powerful pain medication that ended up being sold on the street. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Glenn Saperstein,58, of Commerce Township: Pleadedguilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Staying current is easy with Crains news delivered straight to your inbox. Hina Qazi, 39, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, the owner of a home health agency, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $827,713 in restitution in connection with her guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with her payment of illegal kickbacks for the referral of patients from the clinics for medically unnecessary home health services. Sentenced to three years in prison; $229,500in restitution. The doctors working at the clinics agreed to work only a few hours a week to stay under the radar of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), yet were among the highest prescribers of oxycodone in the State of Michigan. Glenn Saperstein, M.D., 58, of Commerce Township, Michigan, was sentenced to 20 months in prison, and ordered to pay $2,722,760.95 in restitution in connection with his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Yousef Almatrahi, 34, of Romulus, Michigan, the owner of a home health agency, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $1,359,512.69 in restitution in connection with his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with his payment of illegal kickbacks for the referral of patients from the clinics for medically unnecessary home health services. The press release says Patino and Rashid both lived lavishly off the fraud, buying jewelry, cars, vacations, private jet flights, Detroit real estate and other extravagances. We will continue working with our law enforcement partners to ensure that bad actors are held accountable for such egregious disregard for patient safety and well-being.. He's charged with murder and other felonies, including assault. Mashiyat Rashid, Patinos business partner and part-owner of the clinics, purchased private jet flights, courtside tickets to the NBA Finals and expensive real estate. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.). Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America NA filed a lawsuit against Rashid and his M. Rashid Holdings LLC last year, saying he took out a $1.95 million mortgage with them to buy the property but was in default. Some agencies attach these devices to planes, helicopters, and other aircraft, increasing the impacted geographic area. Polite Jr. of the Justice Departments Criminal Division. He says Rashid was read and understood his rights. As they surveyed the scene, police tried to piece together what had happened. Patients largely acquiesced to these unnecessary procedures because of their addiction or desire to obtain pills to be resold on the street by drug dealers. In addition, some versions of the technology also permit law enforcement to intercept metadata about ongoing calls and text messages or, in some cases, even the content of communications.. Now, he says, the sentence is greater. in the city's New Center area hit the market with an $4 million ask, $1.4 million more than the $2.6 million health care CEO Mashiyat Rashid paid for it at the end of 2016. Sentenced to four years in prison; $6,927,046.12 in restitution. Detective Mike Christian of the Clayton County Police Department has lived in Jonesboro, a suburb of Atlanta, all his life. In Scottsville, N.Y., a Turkish immigrant has been in and out of psychiatric care since he was charged three years ago with killing his wife and beating his daughters because of alleged sexual assault. Although often unreported, honor killings have been recorded in several countries, especially in the Middle East and South Asia. Seven defendants await sentencing. Sentenced March 9 to 9 years in prison; $32,287,758 in restitution. . Mashiyat Rashid, a health care clinic CEO, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering. "Patients largely acquiesced to these unnecessary procedures because of their addiction or desire to obtain pills to be resold on the street by drug dealers," said the department release. If it is an honor killing and what really happened that night is not yet clear it would be one of a handful of such crimes in this country. Barbat said the deal fell through because of month-to-month and expiring leases. They're not telling me nothing. IRS-CI is committed to working with its law enforcement partners to help fight the opioid crisis and to prevent unscrupulous heath care professionals from using taxpayer funded programs as their own piggybanks, said Special Agent in Charge Sarah Kull of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Detroit Field Office. Official websites use .gov The 16 defendants, according to aU.S. Department Of Justice press release,were part of a scheme that involved pain clinics spanningmultiple states. Mohammed Zahoor, 53, of Oakland County:Convicted at trial in 2020 for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, and health care fraud. This case was filed in U.S. Courts Of Appeals, U.S. Court Of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Sentenced to10 months in prison;$415,207.54 in restitution. Check the map to find out who has them in your state. . David Yangouyian, M.D., 58, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, was sentenced to six months in prison, and ordered to pay $35,480.98 in restitution in connection with his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Credit: Kirk Pinho/Crain's Detroit Business. The Feb. 7 filing also says the building's two largest tenants, Henry Ford Health System and Walker-Miller Energy Services LLC, have moved out. Twenty-one other defendants, including 12 physicians, have also been, including four physicians who were convicted after a one-month trial in 2020. Besides the FBI, other federal agencies known to use the devices are the IRS, Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marshals Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. An email sent to Rashid's attorney, Sara MacWilliams of Bloomfield Hills-based MacWilliams Poirier PLLC, was not returned last week. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit. The procedures, facet joint injections, given to the patients were chosen because they were among the highest reimbursing procedures, the justice department said. Sandeela Kanwal was the 25-year-old daughter of Chaudry Rashid. Case Details. The device used by the FBI was a cell-site simulator, authorized by a federal magistrate on July 10, the same day a surveillance team tailing Rashid saw him withdraw $500,000 from a bank and stuff the cash in a duffel bag. The injections were selected because they were among the highest reimbursing procedures, rather than based on medical need. He was sentenced in March 2021 to 15 yearsin federal prison. Mashiyat Rashid, 40, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was the CEO of the Tri-County Wellness Group of medical providers in Michigan and Ohio. Rashid was arrested Wednesday and his bond was revoked Thursday, according to court records. Click below to see everything we have to offer. Police were unable to find it. 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