Clinic Manager Gets 34-Month Prison Term in $70M NYC Scam

A participant in a $70 million fraud scheme using New York City clinics as Medicare and Medicaid billing mills was sentenced to 34 months in prison (United States v. Lipkin, S.D.N.Y., 1:14-cr-00773, 7/6/17).

The defendant, Giorgi Buleishvili, was also ordered to pay into a total of $13.8 million in restitution, at sentencing July 6 before Judge Ronnie Abrams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Buleishvili was the last of nine defendants from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and other former Soviet Union republics to be sentenced in a broad case that charged them with ...