BREAKING: Federal Agents Serve Search Warrant at Scooter Store Offices

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
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(New Braunfels, TX) --  Federal agents executing a search warrant are currently in the process of escorting all Scooter Store employees from their main offices in New Braunfels.  

KGNB News has confirmed that federal officials from the FBI, the Office of the Attorney General, and Texas DPS Troopers are at the Scooter Store offices now and one by one checking employees identification as they leave the building.  

A Senior Advisor for Investigations with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services - Office of the Inspector General told KGNB News that a total of 150 law enforcement personnel are currently executing that federal search warrant, although he would not comment on the nature of the investigation.  

He did confirm that some Scooter Store higher level officials are currently being interviewed by investigators, and that the decision on whether employees would be asked to come back to work tomorrow would be a decision made by the Scooter Store, not law enforcement.  

It's unclear if the search warrant is related to a recent finding by the Inspector General that the Scooter Store had overbilled Medicare by as much as 108-million dollars.  The Scooter Store disputes that number, but did agree to pay back 19.5-million dollars for chairs that it admits should not have been paid for by Medicare.  According to the Special Committee on Aging, the Scooter Store only agreed to pay back that money after the Inspector General threatened to suspend the company from all federal health programs.  And at least 2 Democrat Senators have written letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid questioning why they didn’t require more of the 108-million dollars be paid back by the Scooter Store. 
 
And, according to a report in the San Antonio Express News, the Inspector General recently found that the Scooter Store’s failure to refund overpayments may be in breach of a 2007 agreement to settle claims investigated by the FBI that it had defrauded the federal government through false Medicare claims. 
 
As more information comes in to KGNB about the developments happening at the Scooter store, we'll have more updates.

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Federal agents executing a search warrant are currently in the process of escorting all Scooter Store employees from their main offices in New Braunfels...

(New Braunfels, TX) --  Federal agents executing a search warrant are currently in the process of escorting all Scooter Store employees from their main offices in New Braunfels.  

KGNB News has confirmed that federal officials from the FBI, the Office of the Attorney General, and Texas DPS Troopers are at the Scooter Store offices now and one by one checking employees identification as they leave the building.  

A Senior Advisor for Investigations with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services - Office of the Inspector General told KGNB News that a total of 150 law enforcement personnel are currently executing that federal search warrant, although he would not comment on the nature of the investigation.  

He did confirm that some Scooter Store higher level officials are currently being interviewed by investigators, and that the decision on whether employees would be asked to come back to work tomorrow would be a decision made by the Scooter Store, not law enforcement.  

It's unclear if the search warrant is related to a recent finding by the Inspector General that the Scooter Store had overbilled Medicare by as much as 108-million dollars.  The Scooter Store disputes that number, but did agree to pay back 19.5-million dollars for chairs that it admits should not have been paid for by Medicare.  According to the Special Committee on Aging, the Scooter Store only agreed to pay back that money after the Inspector General threatened to suspend the company from all federal health programs.  And at least 2 Democrat Senators have written letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid questioning why they didn’t require more of the 108-million dollars be paid back by the Scooter Store. 
 
And, according to a report in the San Antonio Express News, the Inspector General recently found that the Scooter Store’s failure to refund overpayments may be in breach of a 2007 agreement to settle claims investigated by the FBI that it had defrauded the federal government through false Medicare claims. 
 
As more information comes in to KGNB about the developments happening at the Scooter store, we'll have more updates.
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