United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Colin M. McDonald, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), Pete Gizas, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), Naomi D. Gruchacz, Inspector in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), Ketty Larco-Ward, and Comptroller for the Office of the New York State Comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, announced today the unsealing of a nine-count Indictment charging LOUIS TREJO, a/k/a “Machete,” KENNETH GARNER, a/k/a “KG,” HAROLD STEVENSON, a/k/a “Bazz,” and ERIHK BELIS, a/k/a “Eddie,” with racketeering, violence in aid of racketeering, firearms, fraud, narcotics, and money laundering offenses for their roles in a wide ranging racketeering conspiracy involving the fabrication of transportation data used to support over at least $12 million of fraudulent Medicaid claims.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice