As part of an insurance trip-and-fall fraud scheme a surgeon would perform unnecessary back operations on the very poor.
Here is an extract from the source:
"Members of the fraud scheme often recruited individuals who were extremely poor as Patients—individuals desperate enough to submit to surgeries in exchange for the small Post-Surgery Payments. For example, it was common for Patients to ask for food when they would appear for their intake meetings with the lawyers. Many of the Patients did not have sufficient clothing to keep them warm during the wintertime and had poor-quality shoes. Members of the fraud scheme also recruited Patients who were drug addicts. It was also common for scheme participants to recruit Patients from homeless shelters in New York City."
Source here:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...ry-back-surgeries-pleads-guilty-participating
Here is an extract from the source:
"Members of the fraud scheme often recruited individuals who were extremely poor as Patients—individuals desperate enough to submit to surgeries in exchange for the small Post-Surgery Payments. For example, it was common for Patients to ask for food when they would appear for their intake meetings with the lawyers. Many of the Patients did not have sufficient clothing to keep them warm during the wintertime and had poor-quality shoes. Members of the fraud scheme also recruited Patients who were drug addicts. It was also common for scheme participants to recruit Patients from homeless shelters in New York City."
Source here:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...ry-back-surgeries-pleads-guilty-participating
