HOUSTON BUSINESSMAN SENTENCED FOR DEFRAUDING MEDICARE OF MILLIONS
December 01, 2008
December 01, 2008
HOUSTON, Dec. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Houston Field Office issued the following press release:
Edem James Etuk, 55, the former owner of PMS Medical Equipment Distributors, has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to the Medicare program for his role in defrauding the federal health care program of almost $4 million in a motorized wheelchair fraud scheme, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced tod . . .
Edem James Etuk, 55, the former owner of PMS Medical Equipment Distributors, has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to the Medicare program for his role in defrauding the federal health care program of almost $4 million in a motorized wheelchair fraud scheme, acting United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced tod . . .