The former owner of a New York home health care company and two adult day care centers will pay $61 million and was sentenced to more than six years in prison for Medicaid fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Fraud Enforcement Division announced.
Zakia Khan, of Brooklyn, former owner of Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center, Family Social Adult Day Care Center and a home health agency for seniors, Responsible Care Staffing, paid kickbacks and bribes to marketers, recruiters and Medicaid recipients through a sprawling network of fraud that involved numerous bank accounts at major institutions, according to the indictment of Khan, filed Oct. 8, 2024, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
