{"id":63587,"date":"2025-07-14T00:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63587\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:54:15","slug":"speak-up-phoenix-mesa-scottsdale-men-charged-in-1b-elderly-health-care-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63587\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Up: Phoenix, Mesa, Scottsdale men charged in $1B elderly health care scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20240524-135453-d4b-depositphotos_237469584-stock-illustration-male-hand-holding-megaphone-with.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubmitted art\/Deposit Photos\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Three men from Phoenix, Scottsdale and Mesa are facing charges along with more than 300 others throughout the country in what the U.S. Department of Justice said was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/stories\/phoenix-mesa-scottdale-men-charged-in-1b-elderly-health-care-scheme,597300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national health care fraud takedown<\/a>.\u201d The indictment alleges the three defendants targeted elderly Medicare patients, many of whom were terminally ill in hospice care, through four Arizona-based companies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThank you to Matthew Galeotti and the Justice Department\u2019s criminal division. If these young adults are found guilty of stealing from the elderly, who are just trying to live within the guidelines of our Medicare parameters, they should be punished not with just taking away the stolen money but also to do physical labor to repay their debt to society and be stripped of any government health care assistance forever.\u201d <strong>\u2014 JAG, Sun City; via email <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submitted art\/Deposit Photos Three men from Phoenix, Scottsdale and Mesa are facing charges along with more than 300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,407,171,14154,50,5622,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-63587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fountain-hills-arizona","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-opinions","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848862715865911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}