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Aurora man gets 16 years in prison for VA health care scam

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AURORA, Colo. - A suburban Denver man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a scheme that bilked the government out of millions of dollars.

The Aurora Sentinel reports 61-year-old Joseph Prince was sentenced Thursday for the scheme he carried out with family and friends from the summer of 2017 through the middle of 2018.

He worked as a beneficiary specialist at a Denver call center for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Spina Bifida Health Care Benefits Program. Prosecutors say Prince, of Aurora, referred about 45 people in the program to five home health providers and received $1.5 million in kickback benefits for his referrals. But the home health providers were shell organizations run by Prince’s friends and family members.

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