Six Individuals Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
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Six Individuals Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
Six
The seven-count Indictment charges
Filenger, Rubinstein and Spivak appeared for their initial appearance today before
According to the Indictment unsealed today, from 2010 to the present, Filenger and Rubinstein ran a criminal enterprise which was engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity that included conspiracy to commit mail, wire, and healthcare fraud and conspiring to commit money laundering. The criminal enterprise owned a dozen chiropractic clinics which were used to facilitate criminal activities involving automobile insurance fraud. Filenger and Rubinstein fraudulently utilized licensed chiropractors as nominee owners in order to obtain licensing for their clinics, including defendant Spivak.Filenger and Rubinstein paid illegal kickbacks ranging from
The scheme involved convincing the accident victims to visit the co-conspirator chiropractic clinics at least thirty times, in order to bill the largest amount of PIP reimbursement. Filenger and Rubinstein would work with corrupt lawyers and would pay illegal kickbacks for patients.If the accident victims failed to treat for at least thirty visits at their chiropractic clinics, Filenger and Rubinstein would refer them back to the corrupt lawyers so that the victims could be instructed to return to the clinics.
If convicted, defendants Filenger and Rubinstein face a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of 80 years and a fine of up to the greater of
An indictment and information are merely an allegation and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the
Topic(s):
Financial Fraud
Component(s):
DOJ - USAO
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