Former Owner of Sleep Study Businesses Convicted of Fraud Conspiracy
A federal jury convicted a
"Yi lied to, cheated, and stole from taxpayers and insurance companies," said
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Young Yi, 44, a citizen of
"Young Yi fueled her lavish lifestyle by misleading patients, withholding information from physicians, and using doctors' identifying information without their permission in order to steal millions of dollars from Medicare and private insurers," said
According to the evidence presented at trial, Yi used her business bank accounts to purchase personal luxury goods and real estate that she nonetheless booked as business expenses. Those falsely booked purchases included a
In addition to the medically unnecessary sleep studies performed on patients who had been referred by doctors to 1st
Yi's co-defendant,
Yi was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, seven counts of health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud
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