three Chicago-area labs sat at the center of it, but the paper trail leads back to Syed Murtuza Kablazada, an Indian national who lives in Illinois and has entered a guilty plea on Medicare fraud charges, per the Department of Justice the bill sent to taxpayers: $227 million for COVID test kits, none of which seniors had asked for and none of which showed up. roughly $11 million of that went out to a Pakistan-based "telemarketing" operation in exchange for the personal details of a huge number of Medicare patients Medicare actually paid around $136 million on the claims. some of the money crossed borders, and part of it turned into luxury cars. over $46 million pulled from ten bank accounts is being forfeited, and the sentence hanging over him runs as high as 20 years, with deportation after