Office of OIG

Health and Human Services Fraud Prevention & Detection Actions - Criminal


In Washington, a former State Government social worker and his wife were
sentenced related to their scheme to defraud the Government. The man was
sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $136,000 in restitution; his
wife received a 30-day sentence. Between March 1998 and December 2004, the
defendants diverted money from a Federally funded program designed to help
developmentally disabled foster care children and their families. As part of the
scheme, phony invoices were submitted through the man’s non-existent business
purportedly for services provided to children.




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