The co-owner of Laboratory Elite in Chicago, Zishan Alvi, received government funding for the company during the period between February 2021 through February 2022. The indictment alleges Alvi and others at the company created a plan to cheat the government into giving them reimbursements for COVID tests that were ultimately never performed or used.
Under the Health Resources and Services Administration, federal funding was administered to provide COVID-19 tests for individuals without insurance. Alvi’s company would allegedly scam the service by either never performing these COVID tests, performing tests in a way that was not accurate, or charging customers additional costs for tests, despite them being federally funded.
The indictment seeks forfeiture from the defendant of at least $6.8 million in alleged ill-gotten gains, in addition to five luxury vehicles and funds from other trade investment accounts.
Alvi would scam the government by pressuring employees to give customers fraudulent results without performing COVID tests, the indictment claims. “In order to conceal the fact that tests were not performed, Alvi instructed Laboratory Elite employees to release purported negative COVID-19 test results to individuals, when Alvi knew that no tests were performed.”
These articles with all this stolen money never say if any was recovered or actually what even happened to it. The theft of government money is not a big shock by any stretch of the imagination...but what will really happen to the charges against this criminal is the big unknown...it seems to be quite a recurring theme anymore...with people hardly batting an eye...
What amazes me is that they didn't blame it on TRUMP!
Medicare covered the cost of Covid Testing
You mean someone actually defrauded the federal government? Color me shocked!