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Date:7/1/2009

ed a motorized wheelchair delivered to them by Star Medical Supply Inc., a durable medical equipment company owned and operated by Karen Arakelyan, who previously pleaded guilty in connection with this scheme. Arakelyan testified that he paid a Glenmountain representative $1,200 per prescription. Arakelyan admitted he then delivered a motorized wheelchair to the beneficiary and filed a fraudulent claim with Medicare based on the bogus prescription that he purchased from Glenmountain.

At sentencing, scheduled for Nov. 12, 2009, Bradshaw faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each of the four health care fraud counts as well as the conspiracy to commit health care fraud count for which he was convicted. In addition, he faces a mandatory two-year prison sentence on the aggravated identity theft count, which must be served consecutive to the sentence on the fraud counts.

The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Steven Kim of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher K. Lui, with the investigative assistance of the HHS Office of the Inspector General and the FBI. The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Federal prosecutors have indicted 115 cases with 257 defendants in Miami, Los Angeles and Detroit since the inception of strike force operations in March 2007. Collectively, these defendants are alleged to have fraudulently billed the Medicare program for more than $600 million.

The joint DOJ-HHS Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of federal, state and local investigators designed to combat Medicare fraud through the use of Medicare data analysis techniques and an increased focus on community policing. In May 2009, the Department of Justice and HHS announced the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), a joint effort to prevent fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country. As part of th
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