{"id":139364,"date":"2023-04-01T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139364"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:14:09","slug":"navy-doctor-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-insurance-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139364","title":{"rendered":"Navy doctor pleads guilty to conspiracy insurance fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dog-Doctor-that-is-two-carrots-and-a-bone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dog-Doctor-that-is-two-carrots-and-a-bone-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dog-Doctor-that-is-two-carrots-and-a-bone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dog-Doctor-that-is-two-carrots-and-a-bone-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dog-Doctor-that-is-two-carrots-and-a-bone.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Villaroel pleaded guilty for his involvement with an insurance fraud scheme. He signed off on exaggerated or bogus claims. These claims resulted in the receipt of $2 million worth of insurance. Villarroel takes full responsibility for these actions. As of the linked article, he has 19 years of service under his belt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><b>From military.com:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to prosecutors, the doctor admitted that from 2012 through December 2015, he conspired with others, including a construction mechanic in the Navy and the mechanic&#8217;s wife &#8211; a Navy nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the mechanic &#8212; who pleaded guilty in 2022 for his role &#8211; prodded other military members into filing claims with the Traumatic Servicemembers Groups Life Insurance program, which provides tax-free lump payments from $25,000 to $100,000 for injured service members.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the scheme claimed to have injured themselves in several ways, including a vehicle crash or a fall from a ladder or a horse or during a training exercise, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors accused the doctor of signing off on several false insurance claims, knowing they were fraudulent. Sometimes he provided the medical records of other people unrelated to the case but who had been injured in accidents similar to those named in the bogus insurance claim, the government alleged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Military.com has the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/03\/29\/navy-doctor-california-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-2m-insurance-fraud-scheme.html\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Villaroel pleaded guilty for his involvement with an insurance fraud scheme. He signed off on &hellip; <a title=\"Navy doctor pleads guilty to conspiracy insurance fraud scheme\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139364\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy doctor pleads guilty to conspiracy insurance fraud scheme<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}