Kafomdi “Josephine” Okocha, Samuel Okocha, Healthcare Fraud, Virginia 2025

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Kafomdi ‘Josephine’ Okocha, Samuel Okocha, Healthcare Fraud, Virginia 2025

Lynchburg, VA – Two former owners of 1st Adult N Pediatric Healthcare Service, Kafomdi ‘Josephine’ Okocha and Samuel Okocha, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to commit federal healthcare fraud.

According to court documents, the defendants, both 49 and 52 years old from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, were charged in March 2025 along with Carolyn Bryant-Taylor, 61, of Clinton, Maryland; Shekita Gore, a.k.a. Shekita Steele, 38, of Clinton, Maryland; Elizabeth Ilome, 41, of Stafford, Virginia; and Eno Utuk, 47, of Stafford, Virginia.

Bryant-Taylor has already pleaded guilty to similar charges, while the other defendants have pending charges. The defendants were owners and operators of 1st Adult N Pediatric Healthcare Service, a Medicaid-enrolled home health agency providing private duty nursing, personal care, and respite care services throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

As part of their scheme, the defendants conspired to submit false claims to Medicaid for services that were not provided to patients, including falsifying records and documentation in support of the fraudulent claims submitted for reimbursement.

The scheme involved the defendants paying the parents or guardians of patients in exchange for blank, signed nursing notes, which would be filled out and used to support billing to Medicaid. The defendants planned these arrangements between 2017 and 2023.

At sentencing, both defendants face a penalty of up to 8 years in prison. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Virginia Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit are investigating the case, with assistance from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan Jones and Laura Taylor, and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Terry, a Senior Assistant Attorney General with the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, are prosecuting the case.