HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – Three Pine Belt residents at the heart of a wide-spread fraud that bilked health-insurance providers out of more than a half billion dollars started serving federal prison terms Thursday after being sentenced in United Sates District Court.
Hope Evangulane Thomley, her husband, Howard Randall Thomley, and Sumrall businessman Glenn “Doyle” Beach each had pleaded guilty to their roles in a scam that submitted fake bills to insurance providers for reimbursement for expensive pain creams and other medicines.
The fraud, which carried on over a three-to-four-year period, resulted in a cost to medical insurers of more than $510 million.
Source: Pine Belt trio sentenced in multi-million dollar pharmaceutical scam / WLBT