Maryland

The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) creed is, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” These hard-working employees do their best to deliver letters and packages of all shapes, sizes, and...

A crowning achievement is a significant accomplishment, if not one of the most important moments of one’s life or career. It’s supposed to be something to celebrate. You could say that Mahsa Azimirad’s crowning achievement involved a Medicaid fraud conviction. (Noteworthy, but definitely not...

Two Maryland women have been sentenced after committing Medicaid fraud. Sasha Saunders, 42, and Diane Jordan, 48, were found guilty of billing Medicaid using stolen identities.    Saunders worked as the founder and president of two mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. Jordan was the vice president of the same companies – Changing Directions, Inc. and HEAL Inc. (Perhaps the women should have tried...

Many widowed individuals struggle financially when a spouse dies. Most cope by selling assets, working a second job, or maybe renting a room out in their homes. Fraudulently claiming a late spouse’s Social Security benefits is not a good financial choice. But that was...

When Robert Lee Snowden, of Owings Mills, Md., was laid off as a temp at a healthcare business, he launched a lucrative new career. From 2013 until well into 2020, he conspired to defraud the Maryland Department of Human Services, the Federal Supplemental Nutrition...

Folashade Adufe Horne, 51, of Laurel, Md., claimed she was in two places at one time on multiple occasions. These lies allowed her to steal more than $370,000 from the Washington, D.C. Medicaid program in a fraud scheme that occurred between January 2014 and...

We’ve heard the slogan “it takes all of us” many times throughout the coronavirus pandemic that first appeared on American soil more than a year ago. As millions of Americans have worked together to prevent the spread of the deadly virus by wearing masks,...

A former claims specialist for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of International Operations misused his position and access to SSA systems to misdirect $236,000 in benefits to his own personal bank accounts. Using fictitious identities and identities of real people, Cheikh Ahmet Tidiane...

To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been a public health crisis is an understatement. (Consider the fear, anxiety, and hardship of those who have experienced illness and/or the loss of a loved one, job, or home. Stick the word “unprecedented” in there for...

Healthcare fraud rarely involves a singular fraudster. Usually, a ringleader and several co-conspirators are involved in any given case. (Fraudsters like to help each other along until they get their take of the deal, then they’re off to the next scam.) In today’s fraud...