Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people in connection with alleged Medicare and insurance fraud schemes, the Justice Department said on Thursday, according to a report by ABC News on the charges. The headline of that report described the matter as covering multiple alleged insurance and Medicare fraud schemes.
According to the summary of the ABC News report, the charges were brought by federal prosecutors and announced by the Justice Department. The summary did not identify the 15 defendants, the courts where the cases were filed, or any dollar amount the government alleges was involved. Those details were not included in the summary available for this story.
ABC News's summary ties the cases to both Medicare and insurance fraud, but it does not say whether the alleged schemes are connected to one another.
ABC News's summary contains no quotations from prosecutors, defendants, or attorneys, and it does not say whether any of the 15 people has entered a plea.
This account rests on the headline and summary of the ABC News report, not on the full article or on any court filing, and it reports only what those materials state.
ABC News's summary refers to the Justice Department's statement on Thursday, but it does not include the text of that statement.
Further details, if the full ABC News article contains them, would need to come from that report or from the Justice Department itself.
ABC News's headline called the 15 individuals suspects, while its summary described them as people who had been charged, a difference in wording that the summary does not explain.
Sources: ABC News: Feds charge 15 suspects in multiple alleged insurance, Medicare fraud schemes.