Civil Plaintiff
Three New York Doctors Are Acquitted Of a $85 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
A Brooklyn jury has acquitted three health care providers of all federal charges accusing them of fraudulently billing Medicare for about $85 million, taking two hours to reach the verdicts after a three-week trial. Jurors on Monday reached not guilty verdicts on the nearly 20 counts that physical therapist Wael Bakry, physician Abraham Demoz and occupational therapist Mayura Kanekar each faced.
“Clearly, the government did not have much of a case, and the jury saw that right away,” Avraham C. Moskowitz, one of Bakry’s attorneys, told Law360 Tuesday. The U. S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn declined to comment.
