Atlanta

A federal grand jury has indicted an owner of several durable medical equipment companies and three others on charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering for allegedly bilking Medicare out of $900,000 million through fraudulent claims and making $660,000 in monetary transactions after their assets were frozen during a concurrent whistleblower suit.

According to court filings, Barry Douglas Haught of Tampa, Fla., through his Goldstar Group of companies, operated a scheme to defraud the United States and the state of Florida through the submission of false or fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. The indictment further alleges that the defendants were laundering the money through offshore accounts. The government claims that the defendants fraudulently obtained more than $7.2 million.

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