On Friday, January 6, 2023, three individuals named John Grisham, Rob Wilburn, and Richard Speights Jr., from Texas and Louisiana were charged with conspiracy fraud, swindling the United States. From paying and receiving health care kickbacks, approximately $107 million in false and fraudulent genetic testing claims were fraudulently submitted to Medicare.
Court filings revealed that John Grisham, 49, from Hickory Creek, Texas, Rob Wilburn, 51, from San Antonio Texas, and 52-year-old Richard Speights Jr. from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were allegedly charged for swindling at least $107 million in genetic testing claims to both Medicare and Medicare Advantage, along with other conspirators. The conspirators allegedly managed Trinity Clinical Laboratories LLC, a genetic testing laboratory in Lewisville, Texas.
From January 2018 to October 2019, Grisham, Wilburn, and Speights Jr. and fellow conspirators allegedly received Medicare beneficiaries’ DNA specimens and prescriptions for Trinity Clinical Laboratories to deceitfully bill Medicare and Medicare Advantage for genetic testing, in return for bribes kickbacks.
The defendants and co-conspirators reportedly used fictitious contracts for pretended marketing and other services to hide the nature of the kickback payments. Medicare is said to have compensated Trinity Clinical Laboratories $44 million over the same time period based on allegedly false claims made as a result of the defendants' payment and acceptance of kickbacks...
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