Virginia Jackson-Wallace, Medicaid Fraud, Virginia 2023

A Chesterfield woman has been sentenced to 84 months in prison for defrauding Virginia Medicaid of $211,176.96 in a home health care fraud scheme that lasted over seven years.

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Jackson-Wallace, 65, fraudulently billed Medicaid when she claimed two family members were providing home health care to her and two other Medicaid recipients when, in fact, they were not providing home health care. The defendant knowingly submitted over 200 fraudulent timesheets to Medicaid that falsely claimed an aggregate 22,938 hours of home health care that was not provided.

To facilitate her scheme, the defendant opened joint bank accounts with the two purported aides but maintained exclusive control over these bank accounts, and thus exclusive control over the funds of her fraudulent scheme. The defendant had over 50 prior felony convictions, most of them related to a variety of fraud schemes.

After Jackson-Wallace pleaded guilty to this scheme and while on pretrial release, she deposited two fraudulent checks and withdrew funds the bank credited to her account as a result. The Court subsequently found the defendant in violation of the terms of her pretrial release, and revoked the defendant’s bond, ordering her held in prison pending sentencing.

On [3/1/2023], U.S. District Judge M. Hannah Lauck sentenced Virginia Jackson-Wallace to 84 months in prison for her role in defrauding Medicaid of $211,176.96.

According to court documents, from 2013 to 2021, Virginia Jackson-Wallace fraudulently billed Medicaid in a home health care fraud scheme.

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit provided significant assistance in this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Shea Gibbons prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/chesterfield-woman-sentenced-defrauding-medicaid-more-200000