A federal grand jury delivered an indictment on Wednesday charging two Los Angeles County residents with two dozen charges for an alleged scheme to defraud Medicare out of $54 million.
Sophia Shaklian, 36, faces 16 counts of healthcare fraud and four counts of transactional money laundering. The Department of Justice said the grand jury charged her alleged accomplice, 42-year-old Alex Alexsanian, with one count of conspiracy to laundry monetary instruments and three counts of concealment of money laundering. If convicted, Shaklian could spend the next 240 years in federal prison. Alexsanian faces a maximum of 80 years in prison.
The businesses included Pasadena-based Chateau d'Lumina Hospice and Palliative Care as well as several diagnostic testing companies: Saint Gorge Radiology in SylmarHope Diagnostics in North HollywoodDirect Imaging & Diagnostics and Lab One â both located in HollywoodLabtech and Lifescan Diagnostics in ClaremontDuring the roughly five-year span, the companies submitted more than $54 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for services that were never provided or needed.
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