Federal authorities unveiled charges on Wednesday against three dozen people suspected of involvement in a scheme to defraud automobile insurers that provide healthcare benefits to accident victims out of more than $275 million.
The charges include conspiracies to commit racketeering, healthcare fraud and money laundering over a scheme dating back to at least around 2007, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Ten doctors and three lawyers were among those being charged, prosecutors said.
Thirty-five of the defendants were arrested on Wednesday morning, an FBI spokeswoman said. The whereabouts of the 36th defendant was not immediately clear. According to the indictment, the scheme involved the creation of clinics in and around New York City that routinely billed auto insurers for treatments that were unnecessary or never provided.
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