Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

[KanadaHye]

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The West must know that Armenians haven’t come all this way in history against all odds to just turn around now.

4uck the West Commerce with all, friends with none.

[Tigranakert]

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4uck the West Commerce with all, friends with none.

True. Armenians can be proud to be a nation who is not blood-thirsty, we are not an imperialistic country who thrive on the blood and destruction of other nations. Have you seen the WikiLeaks documents on Iraq? Tens of thousands of innocent victims have been killed in Iraq by the ''so-called'' democratic country called the USA, and still they dare to speak about laws, values and norms. Disgusting.

BellyCatty, I am still waiting for your reply.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

Maybe in some way the origin of their criminality was in the "bad parenting" of the Armenian state, or of Soviet Armenia - but a glib "apology" delivered by today's Armenia in no way indicates that ROA understands what it is apologising for, or indicates that it understands why failings in the state might lead to some of its citizens or former citizens being predisposed to commit criminal acts, or suggests that it wants to fix those failings. In an earlier post you correctly did make a comparison between these Armenian criminals in America and Armenia's own corrupt politicians and their mafia backers. But I bet those politicians, their oligarch allies, as well as those US-based Armenian criminals all think of themselves as being "good Armenians".

news.am, Armenia
Oct 16 2010


Zhamanak: Owner of Atlantic Café among Armenian criminals in U.S.

October 16, 2010 | 11:39

The U.S. police published the names of Armenian criminals and their
associates, cheating Medicare out of $163 million, charged with using
phantom health care clinics and other means.

According to the information at the Zhamanak daily's disposal, Poghos
Satamyan, the co-owner of Atlantic café in Yerevan, is also among
them.

He is also famous for organizing Armenian signer Tata's concert in the
United States.

Interestingly, Satamyan attended the wedding party of Yerevan Chief
Police Nersik Nazaryan's son.

[levon]

Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

....

Come on kitty, you still haven't defined by what you mean by mafia and proved that only some ethnicity are prone to having one. Are you that full of sh!t?

[levon]

Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

I rest my case.

It's exactly because of people like you and KaroTheGreat and the thieves you so much like, who will be responsible for the eventual depopulation of Armenia, and its eventual fall. And when that happens, don't go crying about the evil turk.

Go cry to your mamma and complain how all the bad armenians are making it hard for you to be accepted in your community, because everyone is sooo nice and all the armenians are just sooo mean. Boo, hoo.

[Tigranakert]

Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

news.am, Armenia
Oct 16 2010


Zhamanak: Owner of Atlantic Café among Armenian criminals in U.S.

October 16, 2010 | 11:39

The U.S. police published the names of Armenian criminals and their
associates, cheating Medicare out of $163 million, charged with using
phantom health care clinics and other means.

According to the information at the Zhamanak daily's disposal, Poghos
Satamyan, the co-owner of Atlantic café in Yerevan, is also among
them.

He is also famous for organizing Armenian signer Tata's concert in the
United States.

Interestingly, Satamyan attended the wedding party of Yerevan Chief
Police Nersik Nazaryan's son.

(levon, ofcourse he is full of sh!t, as the rest of his posts)

KittyKitty, I am waiting for your fake definition of ''mafia'', on which you tried to denigrate some nations, including Armenians (something you always sneaky try to do) and praising other ''cultures'' who have no ''mafia''-like structures, which ofcourse is absurd.

[levon]

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In case anyone still doubts that this scam was miniscule compared to what's going on with medicare fraud, check out this website.

Every year as much as $60 billion in taxpayer money is stolen from Medicare, which pays for the health care of seniors and the disabled. This massive rip-off is done through various schemes, but largely by fraudulently billing for services or medical equipment they do not provide.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/broken_government/articles/entry/1064/

[ninetoyadome]

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“Armenian mafia”, xenophobia or politics?


October 25, 2010 | 00:51
By Arman Gevorkyan

According to several local Florida newspapers, on Thursday morning 160 FBI agents raided two Miami-based American Therapeutic Corporation clinics, (the US’s largest chain of mental health clinics). Owners and senior managers were indicted for their alleged participation in a fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in Medicare billing.

Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer said; “Some of the patients were not even aware of where they were or what was going on around them,” The patients could not feed themselves or control their own bodily waste.

The scope of South Florida’s $200 million case surpassed that of so-called “Armenian mafia” fraud a week before which allegedly tried to cheat the federal program out of $163 million. U.S. authorities branded that case as “the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever perpetrated by a single criminal enterprise”. Media outlets in US and around the world announced the story using catchy headlines.

Meanwhile, as it turns out, American Therapeutic is not only Medicare’s highest biller of mental health services in the country, but is also known for its active lobbying in Washington, D.C. and for having ties to congressmen and other politicians.

Despite the fact that the Florida medical fraud case was much higher in numbers and was involved in obvious patient neglect and mistreatment, the media response was not as vigorous as for the alleged “Armenian mafia” fraud. Hardly any mainstream newspapers picked it up.

According to Lou Saccoccio, executive director of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, Medicare and Medicaid Services lose an estimated $65 billion to criminals annually.

This makes the alleged “Armenian mafia’s medical fraud” case look like a drop in the ocean.

So why the unjustified show around one of the smallest ethnic minorities in the US, with an emphasis on collocations like “Armenian mafia”, “Armenian criminals”, “Armenian fraud”, “Armenian crime boss”?

The endeavor to divert the blame for a decades old problem of the American health care system to an ethnic minority feels either xenophobic or pursues some hidden political agenda…

http://news.am/eng/news/35700.html

[KanadaHye]

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“Armenian mafia”, xenophobia or politics?




http://news.am/eng/news/35700.html

Excellent article, well thought out and written. Abris Arman Gevorkyan.

[KanadaHye]

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Every ethnic group does not have its own mafia-like criminal organisations. There is no ethnic French mafia, English mafia, Spanish mafia, etc. There are Italian, Mexican, Cuban, Chinese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, etc., mafia-like groups, as well as groups with pseudo-ethnicities, like Gypsies.

So you're saying you have to be a visible minority to qualify as a mafia group whereas majorities don't count. I see said the blind man.