{"id":379184,"date":"2026-10-22T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379184\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:40:07","slug":"staten-island-mom-daughter-duo-arrested-in-adult-daycare-medicaid-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379184\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island mom-daughter duo arrested in adult daycare Medicaid scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother and daughter who owned and operated an adult daycare center on Staten Island were arrested for allegedly bilking the government<\/a> of $530,000 for a host of Medicaid scams, including submitting claims for clients who had either died or left the country, prosecutors announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Yangsim Oum, 79, the owner of Staten Island Adult Day Care Center on Forest Ave. in Mariners Harbor, and her daughter, program director Juyone Choe, 49, were arrested<\/a> Tuesday and charged with healthcare fraud, falsifying business records and other crimes in a whopping 457-count indictment following a massive joint federal and state Medicaid fraud investigation dubbed \u201cOperation Golden Grift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon called Oum and Choe two of \u201cStaten Island\u2019s most lucrative con artists\u201d at a press conference Wednesday, accusing them of \u201cusing and abusing our borough\u2019s seniors as pawns in a vast criminal enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur investigation found that the defendants billed Medicaid and managed long-term care companies for hundreds of seniors that the Staten Island Adult Daycare Center quite simply never served, nor did they intend to serve them,\u201d McMahon said.<\/p>\n

In total, Oum and Choe pocketed more than $530,000 through fraudulent billing practices between April 17 and August 25, including billing for services for clients who had died or were out of the country, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, several adult daycare centers around the city were raided<\/a> by federal and state investigators, including centers on Fort Hamilton Parkway near 50th St. and 8th Ave. near 40th St. in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Investigators were seen leaving the adult daycare centers carrying boxes of potential evidence. Criminal charges were not filed in the Brooklyn raids.<\/p>\n

The raids were part of a months-long \u201ccoordinated crackdown\u201d on suspected Medicaid fraud at social adult daycare programs, Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re targeting providers we believe who engaged in illegal activity ranging from money laundering to kickbacks to improper billing and other fraudulent activities,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and daughter who owned and operated an adult daycare center on Staten Island were arrested for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-379184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}