Indian-origin US lab owner charged over $66.2M fake COVID test claims
Rajesh “Raj” Patel, 52, from Schaumburg, Illinois, faces five wire fraud charges for allegedly submitting $66.2 million in false claims for at least 380,000 fake COVID-19 PCR tests between May 2021 and April 2022. As co-owner of a Hillside, Illinois clinical lab, Patel reportedly generated fake negative results to claim federal payments for uninsured individuals, involving a scheme with Meridian Medical Staffing Inc.
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