The former operations manager of a Union City, New Jersey, pharmacy admitted his role in multimillion-dollar conspiracies to defraud healthcare insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid, and to pay kickbacks and bribes to healthcare professionals, US Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Ruben Sevumyants, 40, of Marlboro, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to two counts of a superseding indictment charging him with conspiring to commit healthcare fraud and conspiring to violate the federal anti-kickback statute. Charges against two conspirators — Samuel “Sam” Khaimov and Yana Shtindler, both of Glen Head, New York — remain pending. Sevumyants’s other conspirators in the kickback scheme are Igor Fleyshmakher, of Holmdel, New Jersey and Alex Fleyshmakher of Morganville, New Jersey. Alex Fleyshmakher previously pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing; Igor Fleyshmakher previously pleaded guilty and was sentenced in November 2021 to 41 months in prison.
