ALBANY, N.Y. — (ALBANY, N.Y.) -- The owners, operators and landlords of four nursing homes in New York for years misused more than $83 million in taxpayer money, leaving elderly people in their care dead, neglected or humiliated by sitting in their own urine and feces, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday in a new lawsuit.
The lawsuit accuses the executives and the corporations behind nursing homes in the Bronx, Queens, Westchester and Buffalo of enriching themselves by diverting Medicare and Medicaid funds away from residential care.
Responding to the filing on Wednesday, Centers Health Care spokesperson Jeff Jacomowitz said in a statement to ABC News they would fight the allegations. This is the fourth – and largest – enforcement action the attorney general’s office has taken in recent months that aims to stop fraud in nursing homes. The nursing home issues were first raised during the COVID-19 pandemic though the lawsuit claims the alleged horrors preceded the pandemic.
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