US charges 11 people in Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare of $10bn

Prosecutors allege more than a million Medicare recipients had their information stolen and used by the defendants for fraudulent claims US federal prosecutors charged 11 people on Friday in a Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare - the American health insurance program for the elderly and disabled - out of $10.6bn through fraudulent billing for expensive medical equipment. The "transnational criminal organization" orchestrated a "multi-billion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme...