More Shenanigans by Foreign Diplomats
The following was originally part of a comment to a post by ggt, but she suggested it warrants its own page.
Welfare queens? You say you want welfare queens? Okay, I gotcha welfare queens right here:
The contours of the alleged insurance fraud seemed unusual enough: The participants, men and women, were accused of improperly seeking Medicaid benefits for pregnancies, births and postnatal care.
That the defendants were Russian was, perhaps, not altogether unusual, given the number of recent prosecutions for similar insurance schemes perpetrated in New York by immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
But these were no ordinary Russians. They were diplomats posted to New York City, and their wives, accused of fraudulently applying for Medicaid benefits over the past nine years. Prosecutors characterized the scheme as an audacious swindle of the federal health benefits program for the needy, orchestrated by officials in the Russian Consulate in New York and its mission to the United Nations.
If not for last week’s post about the Indian diplomat accused of fraudulent paperwork wrt her maid, I would have gone right past this story.