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With over 300 arrests made, some top doctors and nurses have been fingered in the raging record $14.6 billion healthcare fraud uncovered in the United States by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).
Political Economist NG recalls that the DoJ had in a press release detailed the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown involving the efforts of state and federal law enforcement agents.
Already, says the DOJ, criminal charges have been filed against 324 defendants, a list of suspects including nearly 100 licensed medical professionals, such as doctors and nurses.
The DoJ says 29 of those arrested were charged for their alleged involvement in transnational criminal organizations that submitted over $12 billion in fraudulent claims to health insurance programs in the United States.
“This record-setting Health Care Fraud Takedown delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our most vulnerable citizens and steal from hardworking American taxpayers,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
“Make no mistake — this administration will not tolerate criminals who line their pockets with taxpayer dollars while endangering the health and safety of our communities,” the statement said.
The operation was overseen by the Health Care Fraud Unit of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and included its core partners from U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“This record-setting Health Care Fraud Takedown delivers justice to criminal actors who prey upon our
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino stated in a post on X that the alleged fraud committed by the defendants was “a crime against all of us.”
“The investigation spanned 50 federal districts, and resulted in nearly 3 billion dollars in false claims with over 15 million illegal distributions of pills,” Bongino tweeted.
“Results matter. Talk is cheap. And this is not even the beginning of the beginning. If you’re stealing from the public, or violating your oath to serve, then we’re coming for you too. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.”
The charges are varied. For example, 74 defendants were charged in 58 different cases for allegedly illegally diverting more than 15 million pills of prescription opioids and other controlled substances.
Another 49 defendants were charged with allegedly submitting approximately $1.17 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare via telemedicine and genetic testing fraud schemes.
Yet another 170 defendants were charged with various fraud schemes involving over $1.84 billion in allegedly fraudulent and false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies for diagnostic testing, medical visits, and medically unnecessary treatments, either provided in relation to bribes and kickbacks or not provided at all.
The expose has been a fallout of the Donald Trump’s government determination to birth sanity in the over-bloating US medicare system which many had suspected of being a festering ground of corruption.
