West Roxbury Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Physical Therapy Clinic Fraud Scheme | USAO-MA

BOSTON – A West Roxbury male pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in link with a scheme to defraud an insurance plan service provider for bodily therapy companies that ended up not delivered to people. 

Slava Pleasure, 42, pleaded responsible to 1 rely of conspiracy to dedicate mail fraud. U.S. District Court Choose Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for March 23, 2023. Satisfaction was indicted in February 2021 together with co-defendants Anna Barenboym, Gyulnara Bayryshova and Raya Bagardi.

Delight was a actual physical remedy assistant at Brighton Bodily Remedy (BPT), a Brighton-centered physical therapy clinic owned by Bayryshova. Barenboym and Bagardi were also employed at BPT as a certified physical therapist and a accredited physical therapist assistant, respectively. According to the charging paperwork, from October 2018 by June 2020, Pleasure and his co-defendants conspired to induce an insurance coverage corporation to reimburse them for physical remedy solutions that were not essentially presented and/or have been not medically vital and, in some circumstances, have been provided by people today not certified to present the providers. Specially, Delight and, allegedly, his co-defendants falsely billed for companies purportedly rendered to people wounded in car incidents when the companies were not basically supplied. It is additional alleged that BPT paid out sufferers for referrals, referred clients to lawyers to guide with patients’ insurance settlements and recognized kickbacks from people attorneys in return.

Pride is the next defendant to plead responsible in the circumstance. On March 17, 2022, Barenboym pleaded guilty to her function in the conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 4, 2023.

The charge of conspiracy to dedicate mail fraud delivers for a sentence of up to 20 many years in prison, three yrs of supervised launch and a fantastic of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court docket decide centered on the U.S. Sentencing Recommendations and statutes which govern the perseverance of a sentence in a legal scenario.

United States Legal professional Rachael S. Rollins Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Exclusive Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division Anthony DiPaolo, Main of Investigations of the Insurance policy Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts Boston Law enforcement Commissioner Michael Cox and Quincy Law enforcement Chief Paul Keenan manufactured the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Laura J. Kaplan of Rollins’ Structured Criminal offense & Gang Unit is prosecuting the scenario.

The details contained in the charging files are allegations. The remaining defendants are presumed innocent except if and until eventually demonstrated responsible beyond a realistic question in a courtroom of legislation.