Fraud Costs NY

Brothers accused of bilking benefit programs of millions

Staten Island Advance - Oct. 17, 2011

The invoices were for medical equipment patients use in their homes, such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, nebulizers and oxygen tents. Concord resident Aleksandr Finkelshteyn and his sibling Robert Finkelshteyn of Brooklyn, submitted millions of dollars of bills to no-fault insurance carriers for such items, authorities maintain. But the Finkelshteyns, who were in cahoots with the suppliers, never received that equipment -- and neither did patients -- allege prosecutors.

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