Financial Fraud: Umar Adeyola Indicted In Identity Theft, Health Care Fraud, wire fraud, And Theft of Government Money

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<h2>Amherst Man Indicted On Multiple Charges Of Fraud&comma; Identity Theft And Theft Of Government Money<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>BUFFALO&comma; N&period;Y&period;- Acting U&period;S&period; Attorney James P&period; Kennedy&comma; Jr&period; announced today that a grand jury has returned a 48 count indictment charging Umar Adeyola 46&comma; of Amherst&comma; NY&comma; with health care fraud&comma; conspiracy to commit health care fraud&comma; aggravated identity theft&comma; making false statements in a health care matter&comma; wire fraud&comma; and theft of government money&period; The charges carry a maximum penalty of 22 years in prison and a &dollar;250&comma;000 fine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assistant U&period;S&period; Attorney Maura K&period; O’Donnell&comma; who is handling the case&comma; stated that according to the indictment&comma; the defendant founded&comma; organized&comma; and managed the HEART Foundation&comma; a not-for-profit organization intended to assist area youths&comma; and Heart Community Alliance &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;HCA”&rpar;&comma; a related for-profit organization&comma; intended to provide clinical services&comma; such as counseling and psychotherapy&comma; to youths&period; Through his role with those organizations&comma; Adeyola is accused of engaging in two major fraud schemes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first scheme involved attempts by the defendant&comma; on behalf of HCA&comma; to defraud private insurance companies Blue Cross Blue Shield&comma; Independent Health&comma; and Univera&period; Adeyola arranged for the submission of false and fraudulent bills for office visits using the names and&sol;or provider numbers of healthcare providers who had not actually rendered the services claimed&period; The bills falsely represented that the services had been rendered by properly licensed and credentialed social workers when&comma; in fact&comma; the services had actually been provided by other individuals&comma; including interns&period; The scheme included the submission to the same insurance companies of bills for services which purported to have been rendered by a social worker who was actually hospitalized and&sol;or deceased on the dates of service claimed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; Adeyola is accused of falsifying documents in response to an audit of HCA by Independent Health&period; During the course of the audit&comma; the defendant allegedly made materially false statements to representatives of Independent Health&comma; with respect to the deceased social worker who he claimed had rendered services at HCA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The second scheme involved Adeyola’s theft of government funds in the form a federally funded grant received by the Heart Foundation&period; Specifically&comma; in April 2013&comma; the Heart Foundation was selected to be a recipient of a Department of Labor grant&comma; administered by the Latino Coalition&comma; an entity in California&period;  Adeyola submitted in excess of 30 false and fraudulent reimbursement requests for grant funds&comma; resulting in payment of approximately &dollar;135&comma;000 to the Heart Foundation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The defendant was arraigned this morning before U&period;S&period; Magistrate Judge Michael J&period; Roemer and released&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The indictment is the result of an investigation by the U&period;S&period; Department of Labor&comma; Office of Inspector General&comma; Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations&comma; under the direction of Michael C&period; Mikulka&comma; Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Region&comma; the Federal Bureau of Investigation&comma; under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Adam S&period; Cohen&comma; and the Department of Health and Human Services&comma; Office of Inspector General&comma; Office of Investigations under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Scott Lampert&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>CONTACT&colon;      Barbara Burns<br &sol;>&NewLine;PHONE&colon;         &lpar;716&rpar; 843-5817<br &sol;>&NewLine;FAX&colon;            &lpar;716&rpar; 551-3051<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-wdny&sol;pr&sol;amherst-man-indicted-multiple-charges-fraud-identity-theft-and-theft-government-money">Original PressReleases&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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