Treatment Center Owner Guilty in $2.9 Million Kickbacks Scheme

A California man was found guilty of nearly a dozen felonies for paying illegal kickbacks for patient referrals to his addiction treatment facilities located in Orange County, the Justice Department announced Friday.

According to the DOJ,, from 2018 to 2020, Casey Mahoney paid nearly $2.9 million in illegal kickbacks to so-called “body brokers” who referred patients to Mahoney’s addiction treatment facilities. Those body brokers in turn paid thousands of dollars in cash to patients, which some patients used to purchase drugs, to induce those patients to attend treatment at Mahoney’s facilities. Mahoney concealed the illegal kickbacks by entering into ...