{"id":781735,"date":"2026-07-24T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:54:46","slug":"suffolk-man-gets-97-months-in-prison-for-bilking-medicaid-for-millions-in-bogus-taxi-rides-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781735\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk Man Gets 97 Months In Prison For Bilking Medicaid For Millions In Bogus Taxi Rides: Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this scheme, the transportation companies owned or operated by Arshad and his co-conspirators billed Medicaid over $16 million for trips to three addiction treatment centers in New York City, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad used the illicit proceeds to expand and perpetuate the scheme by purchasing several additional transportation vehicles and to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of multimillion-dollar homes and luxury vehicles, such as a Ferrari and multiple BMWs and Mercedes, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>At least five of Arshad\u2019s co-conspirators have pleaded guilty for their participation in the scheme and are awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Nocella said that while &#8220;taxpayers footed the bill, Arshad financed a lavish lifestyle with multimillion-dollar homes and luxury vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s sentence sends a clear message that those who defraud public healthcare programs for personal enrichment should take notice of the price this defendant will now pay for his greed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through this scheme, the transportation companies owned or operated by Arshad and his co-conspirators billed Medicaid over $16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-781735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}