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Description: Chicago, Illinois criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with home health care fraud.

Patricia Omorogbes, age 61, and Felix Omorogby, age 71, owned and operated three home health companies: A&Z Home Health Care and Dominion Home Health Care, both located in Lansing, and Alliance Home Health Care, located in Hammond, Indiana. From approximately January 2009 to June 2018, the Omorogbes secretly paid bribes and kickbacks to patient marketers in exchange for referrals of Medicare beneficiaries to the companies.

Patricia Omorogbe maintained relationships with marketers and signed sham contracts with patient marketers on behalf of the companies, while Felix Omorogbe facilitated kickback payments to marketers by writing checks to himself and agency employees, who would then convert the checks to cash that was used to pay kickbacks to marketers. Patricia Omorogbe caused fraudulent claims to be submitted to Medicare for home health services that falsely represented that she, as a registered nurse, performed assessments of patients on dates when she was out of the country. It was the practice of the Omorogbes’ companies to admit, discharge, and re-certify certain patients repeatedly, regardless of their medical conditions.

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Criminal Division; Special Agent in Charge Mario M. Pinto of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Chicago Regional Office; and Acting Special Agent in Charge Ashley T. Johnson of the FBI Chicago Field Office made the announcement.

The FBI and HHS-OIG investigated the case.

Trial Attorneys Sarah W. Rocha, Victor B. Yanz, and Claire T. Sobczak of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Mott for the Northern District of Illinois prosecuted the case.

ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MAIL FRAUD
(1)
ATTEMPT AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MAIL FRAUD
(1s)
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
(2-7)
HEALTH CARE FRAUD
(2s-9s)
FALSE STATEMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE MATTERS
(8-10)
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
(10s)
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
(11)

Outcome: Patricia Omorogbe, 61, of Lansing, a registered nurse, was sentenced to two years in prison. Felix Omorogbe, 71, of Lansing, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Patricia Omorogbe was also ordered to pay $6,643,094 in restitution. Felix Omorogbe was ordered to pay $1,592,362 in restitution.

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