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Health Care Goodfellas: Mafia Turns to Medicare Fraud

By Edecio Martinez for CBS News MIAMI (AP) Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into fraud involving the government’s Medicare health insurance program for the elderly. Around the U.S., federal investigators have been threatened, an informant’s body was found riddled with bullets, and a woman was…

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