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Forget booze, women and drugs, modern gangsters know where the big money is; government health care.
73 people have been charged with the most lucrative mafia scheme ever- setting up 118 phantom clinics in 25 states to cheat Medicare out of $163 million. That's bold, people.
How did they get caught? Goofy paperwork, like eye doctors doing bladder tests and ear, nose and throat specialists doing pregnancy ultrasounds while obstetricians were testing for skin allergies and dermatologists were billing for heart exams.
But not before they got away with $35 million.
