Bree’Anna Harris, Medicaid Fraud, North Carolina 2023

Fraud on a Massive Scale: An Arizona woman has been sentenced to prison for participating in a scheme that defrauded the Medicaid programs in North Carolina and Georgia of more than $3.7 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

Bree’Anna Harris, 32, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and two years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $3,971,649 in restitution.

The scheme, which took place from January 2016 through November 2018, involved Harris and her co-conspirators operating an after-school and youth mentoring program known as Do-It-4-The Hood Corporation (D4H).

They paid individuals to recruit at-risk youths for D4H’s programs, which included requiring children to submit urine specimens for drug testing. Harris and her co-conspirators then conspired with certain laboratories to perform the drug testing and received kickbacks once the laboratories were reimbursed by the Medicaid programs.

Harris incorporated BPollini Consulting, LLC to receive and conceal fraudulent kickback payments and distribute them to her co-conspirators. In 2017, Harris and her co-conspirators expanded the scheme to defraud Georgia’s Medicaid program.

Harris is currently released on bond and will be ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility.

In related cases, Harris’s co-conspirators have received significant prison sentences. Glenn Pair was sentenced to 70 months in prison, and Markuetric Stringfellow was sentenced to 78 months in prison. The owner of United Diagnostics Laboratory, Donald Booker, was sentenced to 200 months in prison and ordered to pay over $11 million in restitution.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Medicaid Investigations Division in North Carolina.