{"id":379202,"date":"2026-10-22T03:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:01:57","slug":"staten-island-mom-daughter-duo-arrested-in-adult-daycare-medicaid-scam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379202\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island mom-daughter duo arrested in adult daycare Medicaid scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A mother and daughter who owned and operated an adult daycare center on Staten Island were arrested for allegedly <a data-ylk=\"slk:bilking the government;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/staten-island-adult-day-care-medicaid-fraud\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 <a data-ylk=\"slk:arrested;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-adult-daycare-operators-charged-with-committing-over-500k-in-medicaid-fraud\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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 &#8220;Operation Golden Grift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon called Oum and Choe two of &#8220;Staten Island&#8217;s most lucrative con artists&#8221; at a press conference Wednesday, accusing them of &#8220;using and abusing our borough&#8217;s seniors as pawns in a vast criminal enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our 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,&#8221; McMahon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday, several adult daycare centers around the city were <a data-ylk=\"slk:raided;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/10\/20\/feds-state-investigators-raid-brooklyn-adult-day-care-centers-in-healthcare-fraud-probe\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators were seen leaving the adult daycare centers carrying boxes of potential evidence. Criminal charges were not filed in the Brooklyn raids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The raids were part of a months-long &#8220;coordinated crackdown&#8221; on suspected Medicaid fraud at social adult daycare programs, Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re targeting providers we believe who engaged in illegal activity ranging from money laundering to kickbacks to improper billing and other fraudulent activities,&#8221; 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-379202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379202","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=379202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}