jimnyc
03-16-2022, 01:12 PM
Now this is some royally fu**ed up sh** right here.
We all take a lot for granted when we go in for healthcare. Hell, if we knew what was wrong, many times we wouldn't be there to find out!
So if a patient came to this guy and had no problems, or not very profitable problems - he made them more profitable. He compromised their health for profit.
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A dentist broke his patients' teeth on purpose so he could fix them. Prosecutors say he made millions.
Scott Charmoli's patients' teeth were just fine, but fine wasn't making him enough money.
So the dentist in Jackson, Wis., drilled into and broke his patients' teeth in order to charge them for fixing the damage he'd caused, according to federal prosecutors. By doing so, Charmoli went from pulling in $1.4 million and affixing 434 crowns in 2014 to raking in $2.5 million and performing more than 1,000 crown procedures a year later.
On Thursday, following a four-day trial, Charmoli, 61, was convicted of five counts of health-care fraud and two counts of making false statements about his patients' treatment. He's scheduled for sentencing in June, when he'll face up to 10 years for each of the health-care-fraud counts and a maximum of five years on the other two convictions.
Charmoli's attorneys didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post on Tuesday night. But when the dentist pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in December 2020, his lawyer at the time said the only thing her client was guilty of was hard work.
"He certainly denies that his hard-earned wealth of many, many years of dental practice at the 40 to 60 hour per week range are the product of anything other than his own diligence, hard work and good business acumen," defense attorney Nila Robinson said.
Charmoli had assets worth more than $6.8 million at the end of 2020 and owned vacation properties in Wisconsin and Arizona, according to prosecutors, who allege he billed more than $4.2 million for crowns between 2016 and 2019.
Rest - https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/A-dentist-broke-his-patients-teeth-on-purpose-so-17005581.php
We all take a lot for granted when we go in for healthcare. Hell, if we knew what was wrong, many times we wouldn't be there to find out!
So if a patient came to this guy and had no problems, or not very profitable problems - he made them more profitable. He compromised their health for profit.
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A dentist broke his patients' teeth on purpose so he could fix them. Prosecutors say he made millions.
Scott Charmoli's patients' teeth were just fine, but fine wasn't making him enough money.
So the dentist in Jackson, Wis., drilled into and broke his patients' teeth in order to charge them for fixing the damage he'd caused, according to federal prosecutors. By doing so, Charmoli went from pulling in $1.4 million and affixing 434 crowns in 2014 to raking in $2.5 million and performing more than 1,000 crown procedures a year later.
On Thursday, following a four-day trial, Charmoli, 61, was convicted of five counts of health-care fraud and two counts of making false statements about his patients' treatment. He's scheduled for sentencing in June, when he'll face up to 10 years for each of the health-care-fraud counts and a maximum of five years on the other two convictions.
Charmoli's attorneys didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post on Tuesday night. But when the dentist pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in December 2020, his lawyer at the time said the only thing her client was guilty of was hard work.
"He certainly denies that his hard-earned wealth of many, many years of dental practice at the 40 to 60 hour per week range are the product of anything other than his own diligence, hard work and good business acumen," defense attorney Nila Robinson said.
Charmoli had assets worth more than $6.8 million at the end of 2020 and owned vacation properties in Wisconsin and Arizona, according to prosecutors, who allege he billed more than $4.2 million for crowns between 2016 and 2019.
Rest - https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/A-dentist-broke-his-patients-teeth-on-purpose-so-17005581.php