WHAT A HEEL: The Grift Of Life
Former psychiatrist Jerome Feldman, 69, was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison for bilking five gravely ill patients out of $400,000 for organ transplants in the Philippines, reports The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY):
U.S. District Judge David Hurd … ordered him to repay $2 million to the victims of the phony organ-transplant scheme and an earlier Medicare fraud in Florida.
Feldman pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud charges for luring five people to the Philippines for life-saving organ transplants. He’d set up a web site where patients sought quick access to transplants because they were desperate for a life-saving organ transplant.
Three of the victims got organ transplants in the Philippines, having made their own arrangements when they figured out that Feldman was a phony.
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