One of the ringleaders of a massive $23 actor auto allowance artifice pleaded accusable this anniversary to his role in an busy abomination arena that operated at several South Florida chiropractic clinics.
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Felix Filenger, who agents said collection about in a Bentley and doled out kickbacks from a attache blimp with cash, faces a best abuse of 20 years in federal prison. He has been bound up back October.
Prosecutors said he was one of the leaders of a assisting accumulation of base dispensary owners, chiropractors and attorneys that operated mostly in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. The artifice raked in at atomic $23 actor from 10 auto allowance companies amid 2010 and beforehand this year, according to cloister records.
Filenger, 41, of Sunny Isles, pleaded accusable to one calculation of racketeering cabal on Monday in federal cloister in Miami.
The artifice complex ripping off auto allowance providers by illegally announcement for Personal Injury Protection (PIP) allowance funds beneath Florida’s no-fault law, according to his appeal agreement.
Filenger accepted he, and others, paid kickbacks of $1,500 to $2,000 – per accommodating – to tow barter drivers and anatomy boutique workers who agreed to illegally beacon blow victims to chiropractic clinics that were secretly endemic by Filenger and his allies. Some of the “patients” were additionally steered to attorneys who told them they ability be able to accept advantage from the allowance companies.
The abstraction was to use bodies who had admission to allegedly arcane blast letters to accredit drivers and cartage to the clinics and crave them to seek accidental and boundless treatment, board said.
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Once the “patients” started accessory the clinic, workers were instructed to accomplish them appear assorted times, amplify their affliction levels and bound bill allowance providers the best $10,000 accustomed for accelerated emergency analysis beneath Florida law.
Filenger had been appointed to go to balloon Jan. 8.
Two co-defendants, who are still appointed for balloon that day, may appeal accusable to accompanying accuse on Wednesday, cloister annal show.
Andrew Rubinstein, 48, of Miami, is confined on accuse of racketeering and mail artifice conspiracies, wire fraud, bloom affliction fraud, and authoritative apocryphal statements.
Olga Spivak, 59, a chiropractor from Hollywood, is chargeless on bond. She faces the aforementioned charges.
Federal prosecutors say Filenger and Rubinstein took over afflicted clinics and hid their buying by accepting chiropractors and added bodies annals the practices in their names. Both men confused to South Florida from Ukraine and became U.S. citizens added than 20 years ago, according to investigators.
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Filenger’s attorney, Michael Tein, told a adjudicator beforehand this year that the FBI analysis started with a approach that the ringleaders were allotment of the Russian mob. Prosecutors beneath to animadversion and never filed any such allegations in court.
“The appeal closes a difficult affiliate and allows Felix and his ancestors to move advanced with their lives,” Tein said Tuesday. He beneath to accomplish any added comment.
The men told chiropractors what treatments they capital performed, based on the banking amount return, prosecutors said. Medical agents who banned to “play ball” were fired, they said.
When patients said they didn’t appetite to appear the 15 or so sessions abounding were appropriate to undergo, an advocate or addition abroad would be assigned to acquaint them they had to abide assuming up if they capital to try to aggregate money by filing a accusation or allowance claim.
No patients were criminally answerable in the federal allegation but board said some of them may accept approved to affirmation compensation.
One of the “runners” who recruited patients told board he had referred about 750 bodies to the base clinics and that he was paid as abundant as $2,000 per referral, prosecutors said. He estimated he was paid added than $1 million, abundant of it in banknote over several years.
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In accompanying cases:
Linda Varisco, 55, of Coral Springs, pleaded accusable to one calculation of cabal accomplish mail, wire and bloom affliction artifice and one calculation of authoritative apocryphal statements in affiliation with bloom benefits. She is appointed for sentencing in January.
Richard Yonover, 66, of Lake Worth, who endemic chiropractic clinics in Oakland Park and Margate, pleaded accusable to one calculation of conspiring to accomplish mail, wire and bloom affliction fraud. He is appointed for sentencing in March.
Jason Dalley, 54, an advocate who lives in Boca Raton and practices in Delray Beach, has pleaded not accusable to accompanying charges. He is chargeless on band and is appointed for balloon abutting ages in Fort Lauderdale. Dalley is accused of advantageous added than $1 actor to accost audience and accredit them to the clinics.
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