A couple who previously lived in Eden Prairie, Minn., has been charged in a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, alleging a $15 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurers by overbilling or incorrectly billing for services through the couple’s business, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick.
Gabriel Adam Alexander Luthor (a.k.a. Langford), 39, and Elizabeth Christine Brown, 42, were arrested in Las Vegas, where they made their initial court appearances in U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada earlier this week.
The indictment alleges:
Luthor and Brown intentionally devised and carried out an overbilling scheme for medical services provided through their neurofeedback therapy business, Golden Victory Medical, LLC (GVM). Luthor and Brown were in a relationship and together founded GVM in 2018.
One of the main medical services GVM claimed to provide was neurofeedback therapy. During neurofeedback therapy, a medical provider places sensors on a patient’s scalp to obtain images of the patient’s brain waves, for the purpose of indicating the effects of interventions meant to treat mental-health conditions. However, Luthor and Brown fraudulently overbilled insurers for GVM’s neurofeedback services using numerous inapplicable medical codes.
For example, GVM repeatedly submitted claims to insurers using medical codes that did not cover the neurofeedback services that GVM provided, combinations of codes that by definition could not be combined, and codes that indicated that GVM’s patients received a longer duration of services than the company had actually provided. Luthor and Brown caused GVM to continue submitting false claims even after repeated warnings from insurers, an outside auditor, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In total, GVM submitted hundreds of thousands of false claims to insurers, many of which the insurers paid, resulting in an estimated loss of over $15 million. Millions of dollars in fraudulent proceeds were transferred from bank account to bank account and ultimately retained by Luthor and Brown. Luthor and Brown used the funds to purchase a 9000-square-foot mansion in Eden Prairie and to pay their living expenses and the living expenses of other girlfriends of Luthor’s, who lived with Luthor and Brown and assisted in the fraud scheme.
Back in January 2023, Eden Prairie SWAT officers and agents with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service conducted a raid on the 11600 block of Welters Way in Eden Prairie’s Olympic Hills neighborhood. Few details were provided by authorities at the time, other than to say it was an “ongoing criminal investigation.”
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The current indictment describes that the business was run out of the home on Welters Way, but that clinics were operated in locations including Oklahoma, Kansas, Nevada, and two locations in Florida. Following the January 2023 SWAT raid, Luthor, Brown and three of Luthor’s girlfriends fled the state.
“Minnesota has a fraud problem,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa Kirkpatrick. “This case is yet another example of defendants defrauding government programs out of millions. This type of widespread fraud is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”
Luthor and Brown are each charged with six counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Records show each defendant was conditionally released from custody on an “appearance bond,” which does not require money bail or bond. Another order requires each to make future court appearances in Minnesota, where the charges are pending.
This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Eden Prairie Police Department, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Current booking photos of the defendants were not available.
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