Glitzy Scottsdale couple jailed in $900M fraud

07/16/24 at 03:15 AM

Glitzy Scottsdale couple jailed in $900M fraud 
Gilbert Sun News; by Tom Scanlon; 7/14/24 
... According to a federal indictment, “Alexandra Gehrke and Jeffrey King were charged for targeting elderly Medicare patients, many of whom were terminally ill in hospice care, for medically unnecessary wound grafts.” Gehrke – known to friends and associates as “Lexie” – and King allegedly filed $900 million in fraudulent claims, pocketing “$330 million in illegal kickbacks as a result of their fraudulent scheme.” According to the indictment, they were responsible for “allograft” bandages being applied frivolously to hundreds of patients, many of them dying. According to Gehrke’s LinkedIn profile, “APEX Medical is a national medical device distribution company. 

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