{"id":1279377,"date":"2023-11-30T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1279377"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:35:31","slug":"five-convicted-in-1-2-billion-healthcare-kickback-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1279377","title":{"rendered":"Five convicted in $1.2 billion healthcare kickback scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Five people have been found guilty of violating the Anti-Kickback Statue in connection to a $1.2 billion dollar healthcare kickback conspiracy, \u00c2\u00a0U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs said on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, those convicted were Susan L. Hertzberg, 65 of New York, New York, Matthew John Theiler, 57 of Mars, Pennsylvania, David Weldon Kraus, 65 of Loudon, Tennessee, Thomas Gray Hardaway, 51 of San Antonio and Jeffrey Paul Madison, 48 of Georgetown.
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Before the start of the trial following people were indicted in connection to the conspiracy:
\nJeffrey Paul Parnell, 54, of\u00c2\u00a0Tyler
\nSusan L. Hertzberg, 64, of New York
\nMatthew John Theiler, 56, of Mars, Pennsylvania
\nDavid Weldon Kraus, 64, Loudon, Tennessee
\nThomas Gray Hardaway, 49 of San Antonio
\nLaura Spain Howard, 48, of Allen
\nJeffrey Paul Madison, 47, Georgetown, Texas
\nTodd Dean Cook, 57, Wimauma, Florida
\nWilliam Todd Hickman, 59, of Lumberton, Texas
\nChristopher Roland Gonzales, 45, of McKinney, Texas
\nRuben Daniel Marioni, 37, of Spring, Texas
\nJordan Joseph Perkins, 38, of Conroe, Texas
\nElizabeth Ruth Seymour, 39, of Corinth, Texas
\nLinh Ba Nguyen, 58, of Dallas
\nThuy Ngoc Nguyen, 54, of Dallas
\nJoseph Gil Bolin, 50, of Dallas
\nHeriberto Salinas, 62, of Cleburne, Texas
\nHong Davis, 54, of Lewisville
\nParnell, Howard, Cook, Hickman, Gonzales, Marioni, Perkins, Seymour, Thuy Nguyen, Salinas, and Davis all pleaded guilty before the trial started, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Gregory P. Shilling, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of Defense Criminal Investigative Service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Southwest Field Office said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Defense Criminal Investigative Service is committed to protecting the integrity of TRICARE, the health care system for military members and their dependents. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guilty verdicts send a clear message that DCIS, along with our law enforcement partners and the U.S. Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, will diligently pursue fraudsters who seek self-enrichment by undermining the integrity of this critical program.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nThe defendants in this case could face up to five years in federal prison when sentenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Five people have been found guilty of violating the Anti-Kickback Statue in connection to a $1.2 billion dollar healthcare kickback conspiracy, \u00c2\u00a0U.S. Attorney Damien M. Diggs said on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, those convicted were Susan L. Hertzberg, 65 of New York, New York, Matthew John Theiler, 57 of Mars, … Continue reading Five convicted in $1.2 billion healthcare kickback scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1279382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/stethoscope-AP-200x133.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Five convicted in $1.2 billion healthcare kickback scheme","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:31:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/stethoscope-AP-200x133.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Five convicted in $1.2 billion healthcare kickback scheme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279453,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279377\/revisions\/1279453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}