Trio Accused Of Alternative Medicine Scam

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Read how slanted they wrote this article:

 

Why the dirty no good swindlers, crooks and snake oil salesmen and the nerve of

a medical facility having a post office box. ahah.

 

Everyone knows that the money should go to the " real " healers. The old slash,

burn and poison from the AMA is great and works just fine. Tastes good too. Boy

you have to really watch out for the charletans in this world don't you?

 

I don't know about you but, I sure will sleep better tonight knowing that my

government is out there protecting me so that I can't get taken in by these

snake oil treatments and that the world is safe once again for all, especially

the AMA, Big Pharma, NIH, etc. God bless chemo and all of them gubment peoples

wat is making the world safe for democarcy an us dum shits everwhar. F.

 

 

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3325907/detail.html

 

Trio Accused Of Alternative Medicine ScamFBI Investigates Insurance Fraud

POSTED: 9:38 pm PDT May 19, 2004

UPDATED: 6:19 am PDT May 20, 2004

 

 

SAN DIEGO -- Three alternative medicine providers were arrested by federal

agents Wednesday for allegedly carrying out an insurance fraud scheme that used

victims of diseases like terminal cancer as pawns.

 

FBI Special Agent Jan Caldwell said William Fry, 65; Debbie LaRue, 48; and

Geronimo Rubio, 45, were arrested without incident at their firm's billing

office on Otay Lakes Road in Bonita. According to investigators, the three are

affiliated with Tijuana-based American Metabolic Institute, which purports to

specialize in treatment of such degenerative ailments as cancer.

 

According to Caldwell, AMI's operators claimed to offer their unconventional

services through a facility called St. Joseph Hospital, whose name appeared on

medical claims submitted to U.S. insurance companies. The address of the clinic

is listed as 555 Saturn Blvd. in San Diego, but that site is the location of a

company that rents private post-office boxes, authorities said.

 

AMI promotional materials like Internet ads boasted 150 anti-cancer medications

and treatments, including lymphatic massage, " color therapy, " coffee enemas,

acupressure, colonics and " Dr. Rubio's vaccine. " But the defendants' insurance

claims sought reimbursement for standard medical procedures like chemotherapy,

which had not taken place, according to the FBI.

 

New York physician John Ditredici, who was also indicted in the case, allegedly

co-conspired with Fry, LaRue and Rubio to cheat insurers by falsely claiming to

have received chemotherapy.

 

" The intent of this fraudulent billing was to allow (him) to receive Rubio's

alternative treatments without having to pay for the services, " Caldwell said.

 

Ditredici, 36, was served with a notice to appear before a judge in San Diego

next week.

 

The defendants taken into custody Wednesday morning " did the unthinkable, " said

Daniel Dzwilewski, special agent in charge of the FBI's local office. " They

capitalized on people's vulnerabilities in their most desperate hours and gave

them false hope. This is despicable. "

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