Doctor Received $150 Million In ‘Largest Fraud Scheme’ Involving COVID-19 Relief Program

Authored by Julianne Foster via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

In what the U.S. Attorney’s Office is looking the “largest fraud scheme” concentrating on a COVID-19 program for uninsured sufferers, an Orange County, California, physician was charged Sept. 27 with an 18-count indictment for submitting false claims and receiving round $150 million in funds.

Anthony Hao Dinh, 64, from Newport Coast was charged with 12 counts of wire fraud, 5 counts of cash laundering—two of which included the switch of over $11 million to non-public inventory buying and selling accounts—and one rely of obstructing justice, in line with a Sept. 28 statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Mr. Dinh allegedly submitted false affected person studies in response to a grand jury subpoena to cowl up the false claims.

He faces as much as 50 years in jail for all prices mixed if he’s convicted.

Mr. Dinh allegedly submitted over 1 / 4 billion {dollars} in claims for unprovided or non-covered providers by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) COVID-19 Uninsured Program.

The hundreds of thousands he acquired—as an ear, nostril, and throat specialist and facial plastic surgeon—have been allegedly for providers to insured sufferers, not rendered, or not medically needed between July 2020 and March 2021 in his places of work positioned in Westminster and Garden Grove.

The indictment additionally alleges that he submitted, or induced to be submitted, round 65 false mortgage functions for nearly $8 million, which induced the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications to grant funds round $2.8 million.

Mr. Dinh is about to be arraigned on Oct. 30 on the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana.

Two others charged within the cash laundering scheme in April have been Mr. Dinh’s sister Hannah “Hang” Trinh Dinh, 65, of Lake Forest and Matthew Hoang Ho, 66, of Melbourne, Florida.

Ms. Dinh agreed to plead responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and serving to submit false functions for PPP and EIDL for over $260,000 in COVID-19 reduction funds.

Mr. Ho is scheduled for trial on Feb. 6, 2024, and was charged on May 2 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and cash laundering in connection to PPP and EIDL functions.