A grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Wansa Nabih Makki, her husband, Hossam Tanana, and her brother, Mahmoud Makki with multiple healthcare fraud and money laundering offenses. According to the superseding indictment, between January 2010 and January 2018, Wansa Makki owned and oversaw the operations of two local pharmacies, LifeCare Pharmacy in Livonia and LifeCare of Michigan in Farmington Hills. Both pharmacies were “closed door” pharmacies, meaning that they were not open to the public and only filled prescriptions for individuals associated with various care facilities.
The superseding indictment alleges that during the course of the conspiracy, Wansa Makki, Hossam Tanana, and Mahmoud Makki engaged in a scheme to bill Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for approximately $9.2 million dollars for medications that were never dispensed. The fraud scheme was detected by Medicare, in part, because of a huge deficit between each pharmacy’s recorded inventories and the claims that each submitted for insurance reimbursement. As part of the scheme to defraud, the defendants billed insurance companies for allegedly submitting claims for delivering over 500 medications to people who had died prior to the claimed date of delivery. The grand jury also charged Wansa Makki with making a false statement to the IRS when she falsely claimed to be a Pharmacist in her 2015 tax return.
