BOSTON – A Boston lady pleaded responsible yesterday in federal court docket in Boston in reference to a scheme to defraud an insurance coverage supplier for bodily remedy providers that weren’t offered to sufferers.
Raya Bagardi, 38, pleaded responsible to at least one depend of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. U.S. District Courtroom Decide Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for July 11, 2023. Bagardi was indicted in February 2021 together with co-defendants Gyulnara Bayryshova, Anna Barenboym and Slava Delight.
Bagardi was a licensed bodily remedy assistant at Brighton Bodily Remedy (BPT), a Brighton-based bodily remedy clinic owned by Bayryshova. In line with the charging paperwork, from October 2018 via June 2020, Bayryshova, Bagardi and their co-defendants conspired to trigger an insurance coverage firm to reimburse them for bodily remedy providers that weren’t truly offered and/or weren’t medically mandatory and, in some instances, have been offered by people not licensed to supply the providers. Particularly, Bayryshova, Bagardi and allegedly their co-defendants falsely billed for providers purportedly rendered to sufferers injured in vehicle accidents when the providers weren’t truly offered. It’s additional alleged that BPT paid sufferers for referrals and referred sufferers to attorneys to help with sufferers’ insurance coverage settlements.
Bagardi was considered one of three defendants to plead responsible within the case. Barenboym and Delight beforehand pleaded responsible to their roles within the conspiracy and are scheduled to be sentenced on Could 10, 2023 and Could 24, 2023, respectively.
The cost of conspiracy to commit mail fraud supplies a sentence of as much as 20 years in jail, three years of supervised launch and a nice of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court docket decide primarily based upon the U.S. Sentencing Pointers and statutes which govern the willpower of a sentence in a legal case.
United States Lawyer Rachael S. Rollins; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Particular Agent in Cost of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division; Anthony DiPaolo, Chief of Investigations of the Insurance coverage Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts; Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox; and Quincy Police Chief Paul Keenan made the announcement at this time. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Laura J. Kaplan of Rollins’ Felony Division is prosecuting the case.
The small print contained within the charging paperwork are allegations. The remaining defendants are presumed harmless except and till confirmed responsible past an affordable doubt in a court docket of legislation.
