Prosecutors Say Dallas Attorney “Planted” Niece to Further Family’s Health Care Fraud
The case of a Dallas-area attorney who, together with several of his family members, is accused of forming several businesses to bill the government for providing unnecessary medical equipment to rehab patients, has taken a sad turn. The attorney is now accused of planting his niece as an intern at the U. S. Department of Labor in Dallas to serve as a “mole” in furtherance of her family’s $30 million health care fraud.
Lydia Taylor was “planted” at the Labor Department office to “give warning to family members,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Wiley said in court filings.
Taylor was to inform her family if “suspicions rose about their fraudulent billing,” Wiley said.
Her uncle, a Dallas attorney named Tshombe Anderson, was the scheme’s ringleader, prosecutors said.
Tshombe Anderson remains in federal custody. A January 2017 trial date has been scheduled.
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