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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Ind. Courts - "Gabriele Eye Institute pleads guilty to fraud" [Updated]
Updating these earlier ILB entries, Justin Leighty of the Elkhart Truth reported yesterday in a story that began:
The Gabriele Eye Institute, P.C., filed a plea agreement today in U.S. District Court, with the corporation admitting that Dr. Philip Gabriele made false diagnoses and performed unnecessary surgeries that cost a total of $205,109.[Updated 10/16/09] Another story from The Truth, that begins:
SOUTH BEND -- In an unusual situation, the Gabriele Eye Institute, PC, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a criminal charge in U.S. District Court.The corporation admitted that Dr. Philip Gabriele performed unnecessary procedures and that his staff altered patients' charts, even though Gabriele killed himself in June.
Gabriele's wife, Marcella, was also found dead with her husband in their Elkhart clinic June 15. Authorities ruled her death a homicide.
Their deaths came just days after a federal grand jury indicted them.
In the plea, the Gabriele Eye Institute's equipment will be sold in order to pay $205,109 in restitution to Medicare, Indiana Medicaid and Anthem. It will also forfeit half the proceeds from the sale of the company's Mishawaka headquarters.
St. Joseph Circuit Court appointed 1st Source Bank to handle the company and the Gabriele estate, and it was one of the bank's representatives who admitted to the crime on the corporation's behalf in front of U.S. District Chief Judge Robert Miller.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 15, 2009 12:21 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts