Judge sentences Florida scammers
By HME News Staff
Updated Sun December 21, 2003
December 22, 2003
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - A judge has sentenced the sixth of seven people indicted for participation in a multi-million dollar Medicare fraud scheme involving power wheelchairs, the South Florida Business Journal reported last Friday.
A U.S. district judge sentenced Chadd D. Miller to 87 months in prison and ordered him to pay $1.7 million in restitution to Medicare. Once his hearing was over, Miller was immediately taken into custody to begin serving his sentence. Upon his release, he is ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release.
The court also ordered Miller to forfeit $750,000 in fraud proceeds.
Miller was indicted for the scheme Feb. 13, 2003, along with six co-defendants: Todd W. Neff, Carlos Scott, Eduardo Sanchez, Rolando Sama, Angel A. Fernandez, and Leonardo Redondo.
The government charged them all with conspiring to defraud Medicare in connection with about $5 million in fraudulent claims for the cost of power wheelchairs and accessories allegedly supplied by Imagine Consulting Services and K & F Services Corp., companies that operated in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
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