Florida man pleads guilty to multi-million dollar scheme to defraud Medicare

Florida man pleads guilty to multi-million dollar scheme to defraud Medicare

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to purchasing Medicare identification numbers and using the numbers to cause more than $8.4 million of false and fraudulent claims to be submitted to Medicare.

Former South Bay city manager Corey Alston pleads guilty in Medicare scheme

Corey Alston, the former South Bay city manager who resigned amid a corruption scandal more than a decade ago, pleaded guilty on Monday to his role in a scheme that defrauded Medicare, in which federal authorities said he personally earned more than $2 million. Alston, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, and co-defendant Latresia A. Wilson, an emergency room doctor in Marion County in north-central Florida, used companies they owned to submit more than $8 m…