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Date: 06-24-2024
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Case Number: 1:20-cr-00580
Judge: Ann M. Donnelly
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Queens County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn
Defendant's Attorney:
Description:
Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud.
Peter Khaim and Arkadiy Khaimov engaged in a complex money laundering conspiracy to launder the proceeds of a fraudulent health care scheme involving over a dozen New York-area pharmacies that they, and their co-conspirators, owned and controlled. Khaim and Khaimov used the New York pharmacies to submit millions of dollars in fraudulent claims to Medicare, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Khaim, Khaimov, and their co-conspirators exploited the COVID-19 emergency for their own financial gain by using COVID-19-related “emergency override” billing codes to submit fraudulent claims for expensive cancer medications Targretin Gel 1% and Panretin Gel 0.1% that were not prescribed by physicians or dispensed to patients, and that were purportedly dispensed during periods when certain pharmacies were closed.
Khaim and Khaimov concealed over $18 million of their criminal proceeds by funneling money through several shell companies, including sham pharmacy wholesale companies designed to look like legitimate wholesalers. Khaim and Khaimov typically sent the funds from the pharmacy bank accounts they controlled to the sham wholesale companies. The funds were then typically sent to companies in China for distribution to individuals in Uzbekistan, and the defendants received some of these funds in cash. At other times, the fraudulent proceeds were sent from the sham wholesale companies to Khaim, Khaimov, their relatives, or their designees, in the form of certified cashier’s checks and cash. Khaim and Khaimov used the proceeds of the scheme to purchase real estate and other luxury items.
Trial Attorney Arun Bodapati of the Fraud Section’s Northeast Strike Force prosecuted the case. Fraud Section Principal Assistant Chief Jacob Foster and Assistant Chief Patrick Mott assisted with the investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Claire Kedeshian of the Eastern District of New York’s Asset Recovery Section is handling forfeiture matters
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1349 and 3551 et seq. - Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud
(1)
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1349 and 3551 et seq. - Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud
(1s)
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1956(h) and 3551 et seq. - Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
(2)
Title 18, United States Code, Sections l 956(h) and 3551 et seq. - Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
(2s)
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1956(a)(1)(B)(i), 2 and 3551 et seq. - Concealment Money Laundering
(3s-4s)
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1028(A)(a)(l), 1028A(b), 1028A(c)(5), 2 and 3551 et seq. - Aggravated Identity Theft
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Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1028(A)(a)(l), 1028A(b), 1028A(c)(5), 2 and 3551 et seq. - Aggravated Identity Theft
(7s)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 97 months in prison. Khaimov was sentenced to 6 years in prison. , Khaim was ordered to pay more than $18 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $2.7 million; Khaimov was ordered to pay more than $18 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $9.6 million.
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