BEAUMONT, Texas – A 31-year-old Woodville woman has copped to federal health care fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas. Kari Mannino, 31, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin for her involvement in a scheme that bilked over $30,000 from Medicare and Medicaid.
According to court documents, Mannino served as office manager at Beaumont Medical Clinic on Eastex Freeway between January 2008 and December 2011. She conspired with Dr. John Q.A. Webb, Jr., to falsely claim he had provided medical services to patients when in reality he had not. The fraudulent claims, totaling more than $12,000 to Medicare, resulted in a $30,000 loss to both government programs.
Mannino and Webb were indicted by a federal grand jury on December 5, 2013. Mannino now faces up to ten years behind bars for her role in the scheme.
The investigation into this case was led by the Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Levacy Cockrell is prosecuting the case.
A sentencing date for Mannino has yet to be scheduled.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes|Public Corruption
- Source: Official Source ↗
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