$13-Mil. Medicaid Fraud Alleged

The owner of a health clinic for Brooklyn’s poor was charged today with bilking Medicaid of $13.3 million by billing the agency for “hundreds of thousands of phantom patient visits,” prosecutors said.

“Today’s indictment charges the largest fraud by a single Medicaid provider ever prosecuted in the United States,” state special prosecutor Edward Kuriansky said in announcing the 65-count indictment against Sheldon Weinberg, 62, and his Bed-Stuy Health Care Corp. clinic. Weinberg’s sons, Ronald, 40, and Jay, 34, and two other people were also named in an alleged conspiracy that resulted in charges of arson, reckless endangerment, insurance fraud, grand larceny, conspiracy, offering of false billings and falsifying records.