Kenyan nurse caught in Sh230 billion US fraud scheme took over criminal empire from husband
Francis Kimaru, a Kenyan nurse who was in February ordered to return $6.53 million in exchange for a two-year suspended sentence after he agreed to stealing $34 million through running a fraudulent medical scheme in Massachusetts, USA.
Two Kenyan nurses defrauded the US government of $100 million (Sh12 billion) through healthcare fraud.
Ms Winnie Waruru, 42, of Lowell, Massachusetts, last week pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks and two counts of making false statements.
Her co-defendant, Ms Faith Newton, 52 who is also a Kenyan and a former boss of Ms Waruru’s, denied the charges and is set to undergo full trial, with a possibility of getting a 20-year prison sentence in case she is found guilty.
