New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced that on Thursday, October 30, 2025, Rohail Raja, age 45, and his wife, Sharma Alam, age 45, both of the Town of New Windsor, were arrested and charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree in connection with a scheme to defraud the New York State Medicaid program of millions of dollars.
Raja and Alam were arraigned in the Centralized Arraignment Part on a felony complaint which alleges that between February 1, 2020 and August 30, 2024, in the Town of New Windsor, and elsewhere in the State of New York, the defendants stole over $2,900,000.00 in Medicaid funds from the New York State Department of Health. The thefts are alleged to have occurred through fraudulent claims submitted by two Medicaid transportation companies owned by the defendants. The complaint alleges that the defendants acted in concert with each other in stealing the funds through two fraudulent billing schemes.
A joint investigation was conducted by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the Office of the New York State Comptroller, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, and the Orange County White Collar Crimes Taskforce. They were assisted in the investigation by the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General and the Hudson Valley Crime Analysis Center. Based upon information developed during the investigation, the District Attorney’s Office applied for a search warrant which...
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