A Mission man is indicted after being scooped up by federal agents on counts of healthcare fraud and jacking identities, all to scam the Texas Medicaid Program out of a reported $2 million, so says the U.S. Attorney's office down in Southern Texas.
Juan Martin Flores, 46 years old, a counselor with papers, got snagged by the law and he's looking at a whole mess of trouble with his name on it, including swindling Medicaid with some 15,000 fake claims over four years, according to the U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani's announcement.
Flores is facing 10 charges of healthcare fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he could get an extra two-year sentence on top of any other penalties. The FBI, the Health and Human Services Inspector General, and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit are all involved in the case against Flores. He says he was helping people in his office, but authorities claim he was actually committing fraud by making false Medicaid claims and using people's personal information. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew R. Swartz and Eric D. Flores are prosecuting the case, according to the same press release.
