On Monday a San Antonio woman was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,784,817.96 in restitution for her role in a healthcare fraud scheme and theft of Social Security benefits. The Court also entered a money judgment against the defendant in the amount of $1,784,817.96. The money judgment represents the proceeds that she obtained as part of her scheme. According to court documents, Scherry Lynn Moses, 54, owned and operated adult day care centers in and around the San Antonio area. Doing business as Scherry’s Adult Day Activity Center, Moses defrauded the Texas Medicaid Program by fraudulently billing for items and services that had not been provided to the clients of the day care centers. Moses also ran New Creation Residential Care Homes, a room and board business for Social Security recipients. Moses was also the representative payee for Social Security recipients who resided in her boarding homes. She charged each boarder from $500 to $700 a month to live in a rental property, often placing five to seven boarders to a property. Moses inconsistently provided the boarders with basic needs and at times left them to fend for themselves. In addition, she would refuse to make rent payments on the properties resulting in forcible evictions of the boarders. Moses used the money from the scheme for her own personal gain.
