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WEEKEND FRAUD ROUNDUP

March 03, 2008

Russ Fox rounds up the week in tax crime at Taxable Talk, including one fraudster with Iowa ties:

FORT WORTH — An attorney who ran dozens of nursing homes in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a federal tax-evasion case involving at least $34 million in payroll taxes.

Gary Trebert, 57, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government by obstructing and impeding lawful government functions of the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services, tax evasion and aiding and abetting, U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper said.

As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend an eight-year federal prison term when Trebert is sentenced in July, Roper said.

It sounds like Mr. Trebert might take as much care with his residents as with his taxes:

In Iowa, a Trebert home made the list of the worst 18 homes in the state, according to The Des Moines Register. In Kansas, a rehabilitation center's director of nurses filed suit, alleging that patients healthy enough to go home were not released. The suit, which was settled, alleged that the facility may have been defrauding Medicare by extending patients' stays.

The Des Moines Register article referred to here no longer appears to be online.

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