After submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for nearly $33 million worth of bogus services for the nursing home he ran, George Houser from Sandy Springs, Ga., allegedly took $8 million for himself and failed to report that money to the IRS.
He allegedly bought a new home and other real estate investments, while "his elderly and defenseless nursing home residents went hungry and lived in filth and mold," United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement about the case.
Houser also deducted more than $800,000 in payroll taxes from employee paychecks and held onto that money rather than giving it to the IRS as required. Houser was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
