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Owner of Medical Transportation Company Admits Defrauding Medicaid

Khalid M. Chadder, age 50, of Ticonderoga, New York, pled guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicaid. Chadder operated Chadder Imports, Inc., d/b/a Adirondack Taxi and Limo, Inc., a Medicaid-funded transportation company based in Ticonderoga. Chadder admitted that from 2015 to 2018, he committed several frauds against Medicaid and the New York State Department of Health, including: billing Medicaid and receiving payment for trips where beneficiaries drove themselves to their own medical appointments, and falsifying the identities of the drivers for those trips; and billing Medicaid and receiving payment for roundtrips to and from medical appointments when the beneficiaries took only one-way trips with Adirondack Taxi. Chadder faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of post-imprisonment supervised release of up to 3 years, when he is sentenced on June 9, 2020 by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the US Sentencing Guidelines and other factors. Chadder has also agreed to pay $200,000 in restitution.