Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AKIM MURRAY, an employee of the Medicaid Reimbursement Unit of the New York City Human Resources Administration “HRA”, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman to a Medicaid fraud scheme in which MURRAY, whose job involved issuing reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible expenses, manipulated the system in order to have over one million dollars’ worth of checks issued to his friends and criminal associates. Those co-conspirators, in turn, gave MURRAY a substantial cut of the proceeds.Manhattan U.S. Attorney Bharara said: “For over a year, Akim Murray used his job within New York City government to essentially embezzle funds intended to benefit low-income people entitled to reimbursements for certain of their health care payments. He stole from a program for people in need and gave the money to his friends and himself. Today, what Murray has earned is a felony conviction and the prospect of serious prison time.”According to the allegations in the Information, a previously filed Complaint, other documents filed in Manhattan federal court, and statements made at today’s guilty plea:
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