{"id":38742,"date":"2013-12-06T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38742"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T13:40:46","slug":"russian-diplomats-scam-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38742","title":{"rendered":"Russian diplomats scam Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Huxton sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-25239438\">BBC<\/a> which reports that 49 Russian diplomats are being sought by New York prosecutors for scamming our own Medicaid system of about a million and a half bucks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US officials say the defrauded benefits related to pregnancy, birth and infant care. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects allegedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on luxury goods, holidays, gigs and helicopter rides.<br \/>\n&#8216;Shameful corruption&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>During the time of the alleged fraud, the accused were buying jewellery, clothing and gadgets at retailers such as Bloomingdale&#8217;s, Jimmy Choo, Swarovski, Apple and Tiffany &#038; Co, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the accused falsified household income and provided inaccurate information on Medicaid forms.<\/p>\n<p>Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, called it &#8220;shameful and systemic corruption&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diplomacy should be about extending hands, not picking pockets in the host country,&#8221; he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Beeb, only 11 of the diplomats sought are still in the US, the rest have returned to their home country. And, oh, yeah, the Russian government will have to approve the arrests, so, this is me not holding my breath for justice for the American taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Huxton sends us a link to the BBC which reports that 49 Russian diplomats are &hellip; <a title=\"Russian diplomats scam Medicaid\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38742\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian diplomats scam Medicaid<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}